Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border
My design is very simple. I like to repeat some flowers in the border, but I also like to use a random planting scheme that gives a naturalistic face for it. I like very much to use annuals, biennials, and tender perennials with the perennials and self-seeding plants.
Wondering when to plant wildflowers? I wouldn't blame you! Wildflowers are one of the best-known, best-loved flowers around. They have a way about them, simply by just being free and easy. If you want to try to contain them, I've got all the tips you need to grow wildflowers successfully.
Let me take you on a tour of my Pacific Northwest (PNW) cottage and cut flower gardens to show you what's been blooming this summer.
I had my camera with me on a recent visit to Annie's Annuals and Perennials in Richmond and caught a few images of their demonstration gard...
Camilla Jørvad is a mother and self-taught photographer who is deeply in love with gardening. Her time tending to her land helps foster a close connection to nature and the changing seasons — something she identifies as crucial for her mental and physical wellbeing.
Learn about this wild flower known as Queen Anne's Lace, it's history and the difference between it and some other dangerous look alikes.
When Libby Russell moved to Batcombe House, Somerset, it was the countryside with which she fell in love. Over the past 17 years, she has taken cues from that landscape to create a garden that is entirely at home in its setting. Natasha Goodfellow reports. with photographs by Eva Nemeth.
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by Matt Gibson Quaker ladies are small, creeping perennial flowers that form compact little tufts or mounds of blooms. These blossoms are shaped somewhat like the hats that were once commonly worn by Quaker women, and that resemblance is where Quaker ladies got their moniker. Most commonly found in pale shades of blue and white, […]
I am forever looking forwards, towards the next step in our house, one idea leads to another and my mind gets completely carried away. But I think it's this forethought that is helping me visualise everything as a whole, how can you make decisions about an extension and it's layout without consideri
Roses, tulips, sunflowers, and other popular garden flowers are great, but I enjoy wildflowers just the same. Wildflowers come
Beautiful flowers
