Rich red succulent garden in one of San Francisco's few flat neighborhoods.

Designed by noted landscape architect Charles Gillette, Agecroft's grounds reflect the order and opulence of English gardens. Here, a fragrance garden blooms with Elizabethan aromatics. The sunken garden explodes with annuals. A walk through these gardens feels much like a stroll back in time, with elaborately clipped herbs of the knot garden, a collection of exotic plants once recorded by John Tradescant the Younger, and a living exhibit of medicinal, flavoring and aromatic plants.

The beauty of the Azalea Garden changes and evolves throughout the year. A flowering cherry tree heralds the start of the season in mid-May, followed by azaleas and rhododendrons in many hues in late May through June. July blooms include Japanese iris, smoke bush, rosebay rhododendron, and the fragrant sweet azalea. August is quiet and serene, accented by blooming water lilies, and in September and October the garden glows with the colors of fall. azalea garden bridge in fall Rhododendrons and azaleas are planted throughout the garden, and many are native to the mountainous regions of the world. The Pink Shell Azalea, Rhododendron vaseyi, is native to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and provides much of the garden’s structure. It grows alongside Rhododendron kiusianum from the mountains of Japan and Rhododendron canadense, Maine's own native azalea. (Source: GardenPreserve.org)

The Humes Garden is the finest example of a Japanese stroll garden in the Northeast United States, seamlessly integrating ageless Japanese landscape techniques with the woodland terrain of Long Island’s North Shore. The Garden Conservancy was instrumental in saving the garden from closing in 1993 and now manages the garden on behalf of the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden Foundation and oversees its long-term preservation. (Source: thegardenconservancy.org)

80m x 7m (240 feet x 21 feet) untidy garden with many mature trees including fruit trees, some raised beds with veg, and many many different compost systems. 'Dalek' bins, pallet bins, greencone, tumblers, wormeries, compost toilet. Visitors welcome.

A small balcony/apartment garden in the city of Malmö (300.000 inhabitants). Includes apartment compost for all biodegradeable garden and kitchen waste.

The Rocchia garden is informal, romatic and creative. Set deep in evergreen forests beside a small river, it is full of lush growth. It is functional in its simplicity, with a grapevine of white Hungarian grapes that yield enough to produce a modest number of bottles each year; a very healthy herb garden; a bog area with hostas and white iris; and a wildflower garden next to the river. There are yellow loosestrife, daisies, evening primroses, California poppies, verbascum, digitalis and hollyhocks. (Source: Mick Hales Gardens Around the World)

This Brooklyn backyard is filled with green conelike flowers dangling from Humulus lupulus, a vigorous vine winding skyward in the tiny backyard. A half-dozen vines had already wound themselves about 20 feet up the sturdy cords Mr. Granger had attached to the top of a metal ladder that was strung with a clothesline and pulley, for reeling laundry in and out of the second-story window. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/garden/02garden.html )

This garden is accessible from Lake Street by climbing a set of stairs. It's on the first level. Another set of stairs leads to private gardens.

The yard is in an older area and had been let go for a few years. My garden consists of 3 square boxes and 3 long planters plus several pots of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Vegetables are peas, carrots, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce, radish, onions and tomatoes. I planted rhubarb in the yard as well. I also have 2 small flowerbeds. I also have most of a garden plot in one of the community gardens. I haven't been in it for about a week so I'm not sure what's going on with it. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. If I get much of a crop I'm going to have to buy another freezer! I'm quite excited to see how things do. I planted several things that I never have before.

Since we moved into our townhouse, we have experimented with growing fruits & veggies in our south-facing, full-sun garden. There is not a lot of space to work with but we have been pleased with our yields, from swiss chard to strawberries.

2008 was first attempt at gardening here. 2009 was exciting to see what returned in the perennial beds. Sun exposure ranges from full to no sun. Definitely a work in progress :)

Small garden under a gigantic Garry Oak tree on a rocky side hill near Oak Bay in Victoria.

Heirloom perennials, vegetables, raspberries, strawberries

This is our memory pond. We bring in the fish every fall.

We spend hours, days, weeks. . . years on our well thought out gardens and they come out lovely. Then we take a walk through the woods, around the fields, through the outer yard, stop for a muse at the pond and feel so humbled. I really should leave it up to God and just enjoy HIS PERFECT GARDEN.

A 75 x 150' lot on the Scarborough Bluffs

We love our gardens. We being my hubby & I. He grills & I garden, and together we love our time outside together. Gardens & Grills - good food, good drinks, good surroundings, good company. Enjoy life!

We have a gardening business that is ten years old. About a dozen women of all ages go out in teams of two and tend gardens all over Simcoe County in Southern Ontario.

1 acre lot with lots of trees linning property and a grove of linden trees in the front yard; gardens around the house, shed and linning the back of property, with much more to come. Full sun in back yard and dappled sun in front.

8 fruit trees, 5 flowering cherries, an ancient japanese maple and lots of perrienials

Just acquired the house & yard so it's a work in progress, in an entirely different growing zone & climate than I'm accustomed to...so just learning & enjoying.

There are two parts in Monet's garden: a flower garden called Clos Normand in front of the house and a Japanese inspired water garden on the other side of the road. The Clos Normand land is divided into flowerbeds where flower clumps of different heights create volume. Fruit trees or ornamental trees dominate the climbing roses, the long -stemmed hollyhocks and the coloured banks of annuals. Monet mixed the simplest flowers (daisies and poppies) with the most rare varieties. The central alley is covered over by iron arches on which climbing roses grow. Other rose trees cover the balustrade along the house. At the end of the summer nasturtiums invade the soil in the central alley. In this water garden you will find the famous Japanese bridge covered with wisterias, other smaller bridges, weeping willows, a bamboo wood and above all the famous nympheas which bloom all summer long. The pond and the surrounding vegetation form an enclosure separated from the surrounding countryside.

just a little flower garden

Constantly evolving flower gardens surrounded by flowering trees/bushes, various fruit trees/bushes, pecan trees and a modest vegetable garden. New this year is a hen house to provide fertilizer/mulch and eggs.

I have 4 mature maple trees in my suburban garden, so I have lots of shade plants, especially hosta. I also love lilies and coneflowers so I try to find the rare sunny location in my garden for them.

Over the years we've slowly been taming our backyard. When we bought the place the yard was completely overgrown. The people that put on the siding had to cut a great deal of shrubbery down just to get to the house.

Both flower and vegatable (potatoes,carrots, beets, and tomatoes

A backyard garden with new owners making it special for them.

Cottage Style Garden with fish pond and lots of perennials. We have it with various areas, ie. dining area with bar, campfire area, courtyard and walking area. Some areas ful sunlight, others full shade

Eclectic. Still working on transforming it from grass and weeds. Hopefully, in 2 years or so, I'll be able to say it's "a work in progress".

pics of my home

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mostly perennials, a work in progress over 10 years. Lots of hostas & day lilies.

This is a new garden started in fall 2007. Most plantings are from my back yard. Again, this garden is mostly perennials but I add bulbs for the spring.

my garden is like an old english garden part shade part sun with sun at different parts of the day

Hang pots everywhere, plant hardy seeds, and see what comes up this year.

Hang pots everywhere, plant hardy seeds, and see what comes up this year.

Part natural wild, part cultivated. Home of a sculptor who loves garden masks and hidden creatures. Also has 3 huge black walnut trees which shade the back.

28 years of planning, refining, moving, adding - you know! A work in progress! We have fountains, several well established lovely maples, a couple of impressive Trumpet vine trees (yes! trees!), Day lilies, Roses, Herbs, Passion flowers, Hibiscus, Hosta, Ferns, Clematis, Honeysuckle ....... you get the idea! If we love it we try to grow it.

I have a small backyard patch, this is my 3rd year attempting to grow it. It's small and I'm not a pro but i'm obsessed with it . My dream is to own a yard big enough that I can grow a full pumpkin patch. (a difficult task at best in Edmonton AB)

vegatable garden, flower garden, raspberry bushes, perennials galore.

We just moved to a new apartment. Eastern exposure, almost total shade, so the marigolds & Martha Washington geranium I brought with me are not happy! Neither is my succulent planter. So I guess next year, it will be lots of coleus (love coleus), impatients, begonias, ferns, whatever I find suitable, I guess. There's not even much light for my houseplants.

My passion is gardening .My best friend introduced me to someome saying " Sheila specialized in bulbs".I had never thought I did. I love all flowering bulbs ,tulips, daffys, lilys,especially because of the scent. My favorites include, Roses,Columbines,viola,pansys,poppys,ferns. I also love all my planted junk!

I've been flower and veggie gardening in this location for twenty years. Prior to that it was grow bags on the tiny back deck off the kitchen of our flat in Muswell hill, North London, UK. Our back garden is quite large and dominated by 4 enormous and venerable old cedars who create areas of dry shade, partial shade and dappled sunshine. There are some areas which receive about 5 hours of sunshine a day so they are where we built the raised veggie beds. The front garden gets more sunlight and is consequently drier. The soil in the back garden is quite loamy in most areas. The front has been amended over the years with lots of compost, the back garden too. We have three compost bins. I am an experimental gardener and garden organically. I haven't met a seed I didn't like and love to plant whatever seeds I come across. I am growing a persimmon in the front window. I also have a Cardiocrinum giganteum and Mecanopsis betonicifolia and other unusual plants. Happy gardening all!

Steep slops and a mix of sun

Have on display over 900 varieties of hostas. Also have thousands of day lily hybrids, and many peonies and iris.

Small yard in heritage district with full sun in a few areas, but attempting some colour in the shadier areas.

Median, Historic, Dwarf iris display garden for the American Iris Society

Three areas of interest. 1. Food Bearing-Im interested in growing a range of food crops both vegie and fruit in a coolish seaside site . 2. Perennials-I have a collection of mainly low growing perennials with a few alpines plants thrown in. 3. New Zealand Natives -esp. coastal.Love their texture and combinations 3.

500MSQ EVERY BIT OF AVAILABLE SPACE USED AND LOTS OF FOUNTAINS AND WATER

4 years old garden - mainly Cape Town fynbos with a few mediteranean plants

Informal garden with lots of Thorn trees, Leopard trees and wild olives. The garden does not have much sun, so I grow mostly clivia, forest bell bushes (Makaya Bella), a lot of ground cover and a few herbs (lavender where the sun does shine), Tea tree, bay leaf, lemon, chillies. A few standard rose bushes also seem to survive out front.

A Large garden on the banks of the modderriver in the freestate. My garden has lots of roses in formal and informal planting. Part of the garden is a wild garden with only indigenous plants.

Indigenous, slightly wild, butterflies, birds

My entry in Bloom 2009 was made up of small garden designed with a thirty something year old single person in mind who has bought a home and not an investment property. The main aim of this garden is to show that a limited space and budget should not restrict what you can put in your garden. I achieved this by using elements that you would expect to find in a large rather than a small outdoor space. The garden would be situated in a new housing development with residents located on all sides. The vertical planting scheme, along with the pergola, provides cover for the person within the garden. Both of these elements also help to enhance the view from outside the space. This is a garden where they can sit after a day in the office and read a book or just relax.

Medium sized stand on 1300m2. Garden comprises organised herbaceous borders with colorful mix of annual & perineal plantings. Very interested in rose gardens, veggie growing & orchids. The later being a hobby I have tried to persue for a number of years without much success but press on rewardless!!! The garden has changed constantly over the 19 years that we have been on the property.We are most fortunate with our climate and soil, although a bit on the shale side everything grows and grows well. Constant feeding & composting ensure that we have a lush garden for most of the year.

smallish back garden with mainly indigenous plants and water friendly succulents, a few biggish trees, quite a lot of dry shade due to trees roots and sandy soil. Not a lot of grass as shade is too deep

ask me a question and we can talk

Set at the end of a mist belt, this north-facing sub-tropical garden is established with indigenous, mostly endemic trees, shrubs and soft plants. Started in 1997, some trees have grown at a rate exceeding 1 metre/year, so most of the garden is in dappled shade. There are about 500 different plant species, 300 of which are trees. 2 rivers are present - 1 bisects the 4000m2 property, while 1 runs along the bottom boundary. Snakes and bush-babies are common visitors, and we have a good collection of web-weaving spiders. A lot of life is resident on the adjacent Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, and we benefit from the large assortment of birdlife found there. Temperatures range from 5'C to 35'C, and rainfall approx. 1000mm/year.

every inch under garden no waste space.

Small garden in a complex.

A variety of tropical plants includes bamboos, bromeliads, palm trees and other exotic plants. Fruit trees includes mangos, avocados, oranges lemons, pineapples. A tiki hut make for a serene spot to rest in the middle of the day. A koi pond add beauty to the landscape .

Pappa tree plus other fruit tree...

bonsai

my garden is a small cottage garden with lots of flowers and a few shrubs. I also have a backyard with a lot of pot plant. flowers in my gaden are foxgloves, peoneys, delphs. lots of types of daffodils , dalhias and pot marigolds and lupins. Shurbs are bullidia, varegated elder and old rambling roses. The cottage was built in around the 1910s so olld fashoined plants suit with the odd modern plant such as a gum tree cut down as a shrub.

I garden about 30 feet from a salt water bay on the Caribbean Sea which makes for some interesting challenges. Vegetables, herbs, orchids and more can thrive and/or die with a rise in the salty wind. But it keeps me happy!

I have a shade garden created under a very large and old maple tree. It has three sections divided by pathways with stone benches in two of the sections. One section features hostas, bushes, and ground cover, one section is a variety of shade perennials and the third section has mostely berry bushes to attract birds and has three posts with bird houses plus a bird bath.

A whimsical backyard shade garden in Calgary

Garden on a tophill slope....

These photos are from gardens and wild spots in my neighbouring areas on the coast, and a little further afield, in British Columbia that can be publicly viewed, which I find interesting and think others might enjoy seeing!

A work in progress transforming a prissy all ferns and clivia garden with stones and bark into a bird and animal lovers haven with maximum biodiversity, fragrance and colour

Ever expanding and changing, I have a shade garden full of perennials. I think I might be the hosta queen :)

an unfortunately shaded terrace in milan. but keep on growing, although now the house in rented.

Lots of space. German housemate plants leeks, potatoes and carrots along the edges but has a hard time with the evil slugs. A few large Ash Trees that the evil landlady chopped down to a few meters tall. They're already growing back nicely though. Otherwise lots of mossy grass, an apple tree and a camellia

Overgrown wild forest garden,needs to be revamped and maintained. Definitely a work in progress! I discover new plants every time i clean up.Porcupines feast in the veggie patch!

Lasitettu parvekkeemme sijaitsee Espoon Tapiolassa kerrostalon 4. kerroksessa. Kaikenlaista on tullut kokeiltua vaihtelevalla menestyksellä...

Various Bulb type plants, fruit trees, many trees and a big lawn. A few vegetables.

Acreage, tall gums, creek, natives, some fruit trees, veggie garden, bromeliads

Mostly shaded area on east side, sunny on west side of house-pool area.

berrys, trees close to the wall, little Greenhouse made with rubish, vertical garden, Kiwi, Apple trees, wild salads, herbs

I've only seen the Kodaiji temple garden once - and by night - but the illuminated architecture, pond, and bamboo were unforgettable. I've created these Japanese garden profiles on GardenJot for anyone interested in visiting the best gardens of Kyoto, but unfortunately I don't know them so well myself. I suppose I'm overflowing with enthusiasm but ignorance for all of these gardens. They're so far from my American upbringing and adopted Italian way of gardening and living, yet I can't help admiring their beauty and sense of peace. I look forward to returning here in November of 2010.

Created in 1896, Murin-an is one of the newer gardens I visited in Japan. What it lacks in age it more than makes up for in brilliant design. I've never seen such a small garden look so big, and such an artificially created space look so perfectly natural. Exquisite.

Nanzen-in is a short walk away from the Nanzen-ji Temple Garden; geographically very close, but very different in feeling and intent. The first structure on the site was a palace built for Emperor Kameyama in 1264. He changed the palace into a Zen temple in 1291. The garden was created toward the end of the Kamakura era (1192-1333), and features two ponds, a waterfall, and small bridges and lanes for strolling.

just growing some veggies for fun and food.

We inherited the garden when we moved here 2 years ago, it is split into three, main section has 3 large false pepper trees, fig, magnolia and jacaranda trees, surrounded by hedging, some of it lantana other evergreen. There are also shrubs and rose trees and a small pond with fountain. The grass area of sorts is very poor and the whole of this area is surrounded by a gravel path with bench seat on each side. The next area is grass again, with a palm tree, currently receiving treatment for the red palm beetle, no sure if it will survive or not, a large Yukka plant and two sky rocket conifers, also another bed consisting of roses, conifer, and other palm type plant. The third area around the pool is planters, in which I have a lemon and orange tree, bay, plus bedding plants and herb pots. Garden so named because it was designed by the previous owner, Olimpia.

I grow a beautiful exotic passionflower vine that breeds a beautiful orange butterfly with silver spots. It grows on a trellace patio covered spanish style garden. Complete with hand painted talavera tile, this garden has a assortment of butterfly friendly, native variety, succulents and sentimental plants that were inherited from my grandmother. I love spending time in my garden and seeing my plants flourish.

River valley, lots of trees, shade, and high groundwater table for most of the year. Watering from a well point in summer but pumping away the high groundwater most of the year. Oaks, hawthorne, white stinkwood, swamp cyprus, ginko biloba, olives, fruit, swamp cyprus, catalpa, coral tree, lots of clivia, plectranthus, ageratum, azalea, ferns, oleander, hibiscus, varieties of bromeliad, water irises, duvenoia, a nice medinella, young psychotria and yellowwoods, crinum lilies and various day lilies and madonna lilies, strelitzia.big mixture. Building an 1830s style veranda. On Doordrift Road, Cape Town. Mediterranean climate, heavy rain at times in winter, mild temperature. My parents began this 55 years ago. Most of the trees are from then or later, but the oaks are older. Two oaks fell over the years, from too much water at their roots, but the pumping system has now contained that problem.

new house, new garden to create next spring and summer, can't wait...

Typical suburban UK garden

Backyard and frontyard - all round really. Full sun, partial sun, dappled sun!

From the terrace off the Cat Bus Room, a spiral stairway leads to the roof, and there you will find a grassy rooftop garden. From this lofty post, a serene five-meter-tall Robot Soldier (from “Laputa Castle in the Sky”) looks down on Inokashira Park. But have no fear; the Robot Soldier is the Guardian of the Ghibli Museum! Passing behind the Robot Soldier you will find yourself in a patch of wildly growing vegetation which makes you forget that you are on a building and not in the park itself. Source: http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/welcome/

its ma new mango garden..........

Established in 1968 by Warren and Helen McCord as a display garden for Warren's landscape architecture business, the garden has evolved into a tourist destination that draws thousands of visitors every year. We continue to be an entirely family owned and operated business and take pride in sharing our garden with you. The garden is located on the slopes of Haleakala and encompasses 8 acres of colorful and unique plants, amazing rock formations, a covered bridge, waterfalls, koi pond, aviary and new attractions including the carved tiki exhibit. We have hundreds of varieties of plants for you to enjoy and photograph. Plants are labeled with their botanical name, common name, and country of origin. Included in the garden is a collection of native Hawaiian plants. Source: http://kulabotanicalgarden.com/

hm... well..its just started to look like a garden

The best raspberry and strawberry patches in the county are right here in the gardens and if you are lucky enough you might even get to taste them. Vegetables of every kind can be found growing even in this harsh environment that usually gets less than 60 consecutive frost free days. The Rose Garden was developed in 2003 for the purpose of testing roses for Weeks Roses of California. Today, the Rose Garden is home to mostly Canadian roses. Perennial as well as annual herbs are abundant in herb garden. Medicinal, edible and tea herbs happily intermingle. Source: http://www.tizergardens.com/index.html

many garden areas outlined with rocks, large backyards, use a golf cart to move around them

PADIES - A unique Renaissance Château estate set in the Lauragais of Pastel fame, Cathar country and the land of the Troubadours, the Château de Padiès and grounds offer a unique experience to the visitor in this region. While there are Historic Monuments to visit, and gardens to visit, and historical gardens to visit, and labyrinths to visit, and farms to visit, and organic farms to visit, and “development durable” projects to visit, and sculpture parks to visit………there is no one site that offers a combination of all of these – except for Padiès. “Les Jardins du Château de Padiès” are open to visitors from April to October

We have a small space in our back garden where I have a veggie plot and a good number of bulbs.

a beautiful cottage garden with old fashioned rambling roses, lavender, daphine, fox gloves, granny bonnets, violias, hydrangers. A lovely deck to sit on and enjoy the fish pond with a lovely water fall at one end, love watching the birds have a swim in the bird baths :)

hot humid weather

hi there :) I love rustic and cottage gardens with rambling wisteria, roses, lavender, fox gloves,herbs, bulbs,hanging baskets and pots filling over with color. There is nothing nicer than coming home after a busy day and being greated by beautiful smells as you walk through the gate ~ not to mention happy puppys, and relaxing with a nice glass of red on the deck with candles and music :-) Life can be pretty dam good `·..?

Flowers: from shadow to moderate daylight Kitchen garden: all easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs Soil: Muddy, keeps water Problem: keeping the growth alive during the winter

I have old trees therefore plenty of shade, three ponds, a Fuchsia growing area and a Rose garden. Other interests : epiphyllums, tillandias, ferns and feeding birds. Not much lawn.

um pequeno jardim, no interior de um quarteirão na cidade de Vila Real. O que era e como foi sendo, e é, transformado de modo a proporcionar o maior bem estar aos seus criadores...

Edo Period (1603-1868) Stroll Garden with pond. Visited here in the blazing heat of August, but the garden was cooler than the streets outside, and fortune had it that after the crowds of Ryoan-ji, I found myself, for an hour or so, alone in this quiet corner of Kyoto.

Late bloomer, meditaranean area in garden. Full sun in afternoon.

It is a private garden, with pine trees, fruit trees, seasonal flowers, hanging baskets and a salad and vegetable patch. The area is about 2000 m2. We arre particular about keeping the lawn and hedge pruned, keen for nice flowers all around the year. Three wisterias adorn the walls. Need help to plan the work in the garden.

Am trying to get a cottage feel in the garden.

We are creating a garden on what is mainly bogland, within sight of the ocean. Due to salt winds blowing in off the Atlantic, we had to establish a shelter of hardy trees and bushes around the edge of our property. Most of the garden is quite shaded, which further limits what we can grow successfully, but by creating a series of 'rooms' within the garden, we have managed to grow a surprising number of species.

This is still progressing,slowly getting things done.

As this is my first year I'm looking forward to the challenge of combining herb, edible and cottage with some container, so my list is long but doable.

Wild Flowers, Rock Garden, succulent varietal, trees, vines, ground cover, needs lots of work, on granite hard to dig deep so have to use built-up garden beds which tend to stay too moist. grass needs work. trying to cultivate rock wall growth and hummingbird/butterfly favorites.

Im planning a veggie garden and need tips on growing roses

Lawns and Woodland Canopy of laurel & rare weeping holly Host of daffodils and spring bulbs Summer Sculpture Trail Open to Gallery visitors from Easter to October http:www.beverevivis.com

A soon to be fire escape garden...I'll post pictures as it grows. Fow now enjoy some nice pics from a recent hike!

My garden is very wet which presents lots of difficulties. I also have rabbits which eat everything. I garden by trial and error and love surpises when new things come up that I haven't planted. We are surrounded by trees so in the summer it feels lush and green. I love wild flowers. We have primroses, celandine and wild orchids in the spring and foxgloves in the summer. My gardens has odd soil but is seems to be very fertile. It is neutral in pH but is comprised of clay, loam and alkaline peat.

06/09 - side bed, dappled sun to full shade in the middle. A work in progress to see what is happy here.

sun near the car, shade in the middle, and dappled sun in the foreground.

Chantilly Lace hosta, dappled sun.

Newest bed in front of cottage. Dappled sun.