Search Results for: Eclectic
Garden: Eclectic Oasis
My garden has all the plants I love and more. Almost anything grows here on the coast. So I love to experiment. Make my own hanging baskets of impatients, these grow well in the shade that is my front yard and the deer don't seem tpo like them. Have a deer sprayer in the backyard because they just love roses and hostas.We totally redid the yard about 3 years ago and it's still evolving.
Garden: My Life is a Garden
My Garden is very eclectic. It is an English garden with garden trinkets hidden among flowers and foilage.. there is rocks and creeping jenny, creeping thyme and sweet woodruff. My garden dazzles the senses!
Garden: Heritage Heaven
An eclectic mix of perennials, herbs (my true love), annuals and veggies. Potager style. I have an herb garden too. I try to grow heritage varieties like peas and lettuce, as my small way to keep more variety on the planet.
Garden: Eclectic
I started gardening 5ish years ago when I bought my house, The yard only had some pathetic looking Lilacs and had a driveway all the way thru to the alley.I rototilled and started digging and planting,I really had no idea what I was going to end up with, but so far Iam very pleased with my work.I planted a bamboo tree and it is in it's 3rd season, I madea gazebo out of a neighbors satelite dish and it has various vines growing over it.I had a real problem with portulaca so I put down weed barrier and have shovelled 16 yards of gravel out.I separated the gravel from plants using rail ties.I have just finished putting in the upper tier to my pond(an old stock trough)and have alot of tweeking to do to get the waterfall right.Iam always happy to be in my yard doing something, as I rarely sit,when I try to a weed or something that isn't quite right will catch my eye.
Garden: Eclectic
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".
Garden: taming the jungle in the Northend
I started out with plans for an English garden but because of the soil and the type of plants that favoured the location it turned into an Eclectic garden. My children love it and my cats think they are living in a garden jungle when everything is fully grown. It is also a nature habitat and I also try to grow plants for the wild birds, butterflies, and bees.
Garden: Dorpsplaas - Karoo garden
An eclectic garden in the Great Karoo - mostly indigenous and waterwise; vegetables, fruit trees and an olive grove.
Garden: GRACIAS DIOS
An eclectic mixture - front garden cottage style, informal plantings of flowers, fruit, herbs and trees. Back garden still much a work in progress but will be wonderful when completed.
Garden: Elaine's garden
It is a small garden in a townhouse complex, comprising lawn, shade plants, fairly eclectic mix. Quite a few pots. Summer rainfall, frosty winters.
Garden: Dragons' Court
This small downtown lot is crammed with shrubs, perennials, and annuals. It features low water use, semi arid climate and an eclectic garden style. The current mapping does not show improvements made in the last five years.
Garden: The River Cottage Garden
Plot is 1000 square meters on absolute rock, located next to Gladde Spruit. The garden has been designed by Feng Shui principles and demarcated into different garden rooms. Back is woodland garden and the rest is eclectic-cottage style with 90% indigenous plants as well as herbs galore and interesting "aliens" like orchids, roses, etc. The garden is dog and animal friendly with little nooks hidden everywhere for bird watching and relaxing in nature. The garden is more wild than manicured and is my little haven.
Garden: urban oasis
Eclectic influences and salvaged materials combine to form a unique but naturalistic style.
Garden: Biggest Little Community Garden in the World
The community garden is primarily a school garden. It is approximately one quarter acre in size on my property. I live across the street from a "high risk" elementary school in an urban neighborhood, approximately 1 mile from downtown Reno. The intention behind the garden is multifaceted. The focus is to support social wellness. We do this by partnering with the Elementary School across the street, other schools, community members, neighborhood residents and local companies.
We partnered with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extention, which included the school and garden in a grant to provide a program that meets the state standards of education called "Nutrition in the Garden" to the third and fifth grade classes. Through this grant, we also have three picnic tables and have created a Learning Center.
We have created a fun, eclectic garden by integrating the garden "opportunities' with the existing landscape. The garden has fruit and shade trees, flower beds, an herb garden, and vegetable plots. We have raised beds made from recycled goods, wood, rocks and straw bales. In our first year, we extended the growing season all year, with help from students from a Charter High School who built a hoop house for the winter months (normally challenging in the high desert, but we were very successful!).
Garden: Maria Laura´s Garden
A sunny terrace in the Southern Suburbs of Buenos Aires houses my beloved cacti, succulent, aromatic and flowers of many different kinds. Eclectic? Maybe, but sure in my style! I bid you welcome to Laura´s Garden
Garden: The Sara Stein Garden
This garden contains indiginous flora such as yellow wood sorrel, Russian thistle, groundsel, arrowhead, sassafras, sage brush, dodder, jewelwee, ground ivy, evening primrose, Queen Anne's lace, fleabane, dandelion, Kentucky bluegrass and goldenrod. (Source: Mick Hales Gardens Around the World)
Garden: Kathy's Garden
I have many plants in containers, due to poor soil and rampant gophers. But I also have other plants in the ground, including roses, fortnight lilies and fruit trees. I love drought-resistant plants like Pride of Madeira, flax and ceanothus.
Garden: Cindy Dyer's Garden
Three years after we moved into our townhouse, we discovered we had green thumbs! Who knew? So, out went the grass in the back and front yards. In went every conceivable plant, herb, vegetable and flower we could squeeze in! Gardening has changed my life!
Garden: My Favorite Place In The World
I have no grass on my front lawn, just a mixture of all kinds of flowers from lupins, shasta daisy, monarda, day lillies, all in a rainbow of colors. My back garden is tamer with raised beds, roses, holy hocks against the house, clematis, and morning glories climbing the fences
Garden: Northern Acres
We live on 80 acres of woods,marsh,bog,wild field & pond. We are blessed with abundant and fascinating wildlife. We moved here in '06 to retire and simplify life. I vowed not to be tied to large and numerous gardens as my health is failing. I decided on a veggie garden with small beds and herb borders. I use a lot of fresh herbs in cooking,garnish, and healing. Each bed can be easily worked from a network of mulched pathways and instead of the one acre garden we once had to have to feed our large family, this garden provides enough for fresh eating and attractive plantings.
In our front yard there was an existing crescent moon perennial garden we haven't been able to resist adding to until the borders are bursting and it was going to have to be expanded in some way. A new bed was tilled this summer and now we have mirror image gardens in the front yard on either side of a cement bench. We have just begun the plantings.
In the back yard a tiny daylily bed has been replaced by a partial sun perennial garden, a small pond and border plantings. I have planted roses which I love but have not had good luck with in our previous home.
To the west of the house, against the woods, we have a hosta bed that is beautifully serene.
Our gardens are always evolving and quirky and challenge me to find ways to limit the work and enlist helpful hands and minds.
I am by by no means a professional I just enjoy the sun, soil and challenge- So welcome to my garden
Garden: The Ruth Bancroft Garden
The Ruth Bancroft Garden is an exceptional example of garden design and a collection of water-conserving plants.
he Ruth Bancroft Garden 2.5 acres (10,000 m²) is a dry botanical garden containing more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to Africa, Australia, California, Chile, and Mexico. In 1989, it became the first garden in the United States to be preserved by the Garden Conservancy, and has been open to the public since 1992.
The Garden began in the early 1950s as the private collection within Bancroft Farm, a 400-acre (1.6 km2) property bought by publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft as an orchard for pears and walnuts. In the 1950s, Ruth Bancroft brought home a single succulent, an aeonium grown by Ms. Glenn Davidson. By 1972, the collection had outgrown its location and was moved to its current site, then an orchard of dying walnut trees. Today the Garden is an outstanding landscape of xerophytes (dry-growing plants).
Garden collections include: aeonium, aloes, agavaceae, Brachychiton rupestris, Brahea armata, bromeliaceae, Butia, dudleya, dyckia, echeverias, Echinocactus, hechtia, Jubaea chilensis, Puya berteroniana and P. chilensis, Xanthorrhoea preissii, and yuccas. (Source: Wikipedia)
Garden: Work in Progress
Just moved in to this house and there was an existing garden that was pretty boring. I love gardening but I just struggle with what to do about this mess. The soil is very poor. After watering it dries almost to a solid mass. I need help!!!!
Garden: The Emerald Dream
Just starting out in a new home with a blank canvas so it's a work in progress!
Garden: Bert's Gardens
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 :)
Garden: Geno's Garden
I have several areas, a perennial shrub border in the front which is gradually taking over the lawn, a vegetable garden, a shade garden and an area "in transition"
Garden: Sanctuary
Slowly on limited budget converting very small unused in-town backyard space,under black walnut and in driveway, into micro nature spot. Natural species and herbs with a few vegetable attempts......
Garden: Sandys Garden
This Garden was added 3 years ago. This has been a wonderful year with everything in full bllom.
Garden: The Perfect Garden
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.
Garden: Jade Hill Garden
Jade Hill is a hillside stroll garden with a varied collection of exotic plant material. A partial list includes dwarf yellow-stripe bamboo, fountain bamboo, lotus, magnolias, Japanese maples, and conifers. Trees, shrubs, and perennials have been planted to form a tapestry of color and texture. Features include a walk-through bamboo grove and goldfish ponds. An Oriental viewing pavilion cantilevered over a ledge overlooks a goldthemed garden. The rose garden has more than fifty varieties of hardy shrub roses. The garden was featured in the September 2006 issue of Better Homes & Gardens and the July 2007 issue of Hudson Valley.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=10&IDEvent=231&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Mead Farm House Garden
On the site of a 250-year-old farmyard, this mature garden winds around a fair approximation of a nineteenth-century horse barn and utilizes rocky outcroppings and the stone foundations of long-gone farm buildings as the visual anchors of the perennial beds. The base of an old silo has become a deck from which one can gaze over a small pond at the distant landscape. Features include a bog garden and some interesting trees, including a sizeable Japanese umbrella pine planted about 1966.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=12&IDEvent=231&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Blue Flag Farm
Blue Flag Farm, named for the masses of Iris versicolor in the pastures, is an old New England farm. An eighteenth-century Cape Cod-style house next to the Pendleton Hill Brook overlooks stone walls, sheep pastures, and tall oaks. In the fields among glacial outcroppings are beds containing 600 daylily cultivars—large flowered, small, miniatures, and spiders. Some beds feature pink, purple, and red daylilies; others yellow, gold, and red. I take great pleasure in a seventy-by-forty-foot perennial border where perennials, shrubs, and annuals accompany daylilies in pleasing combinations. Delphinium, annual poppies, roses, salvia, clematis, nasturtium, herbs, and coleus are included.
Info taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=212&IDEvent=170&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Kentford Farm
Kentford Farm is a perennial farm in the making. For eleven years Paul Coutu and William Turner have been planting and creating grass pathways and planting beds. The farm dates back to 1727 and the previous owner started planting in 1945. Fifty-foot weeping cherries, a Norway spruce, copper beech, and blue atlas cedar, to name a few, dot this five-acre garden. There is a walk-in root cellar built into the hillside and stone walls surround the whole property. For more information, visit www.kentfordfarm.com. The garden is open only a few times a year.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=269&IDEvent=170&SortBy=&State=
Garden: 152 Ide Road
This garden, surrounding an old carriage barn, is divided into rooms to resemble the English gardens loved by the owner/gardener/English professor. A walled garden leads to a formal pool, with an island waterfall and the divine lotus that blooms in mid-July. The entrance, a rustic pergola, borders a trellised, ornamental kitchen garden. A white garden, surrounding clumps of native birch, pays homage to Sissinghurst. A folly, with broken stones and a dripping column, evokes ancient ruins, while an arched window on an old marble base, framing the folly, the long hot border, or the distant landscape, looks into the past and future.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=309&IDEvent=188&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Temenos
Front, back, side and patio gardens, a fair amount of shade. Flowers (working toward mostly perennials in the beds), some herbs and a vegetable or two.
Garden: Braveboat Harbor Farm
This garden has been evolving over the last fifty years. It surrounds and complements a Georgian-style stone house. There are formal and informal borders, a vegetable garden, orchards, and collections of various flowering trees and shrubs. Apples and pears are espaliered on the house and along the walls of the formal front garden. Water features include a goldfish pond in an old septic tank, a farm pond with rustic bridge, and the Atlantic Ocean. This treasure is protected by a sculpted arborvitae hedge on the northwest, a mature stand of hickory on the northeast, and an extensive screen of old lilacs on the south. New projects include expanding the collection of magnolias and rhododendrons, introducing hydrangeas, an espaliered pear fence, a woodland walk, and a summerhouse with views to the pond and the sea.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=320&IDEvent=180&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Arcadia
This four-and-one-half-acre garden is set in the midst of surrounding forest. Within the garden many micro-climates exist. More than 250 rhododendrons set the stage for complimentary plantings in both the shade garden and sunnier beds. The summer garden is a drought-tolerant collection of perennials shrubs and trees. Meandering woodland paths connect the 100% organic garden beds, providing a serene walk and a sense of spacious tranquility.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=23&IDEvent=260&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Atha Teller
The Atha/Teller garden is a work in progress. Pete and Cameron have sought to create a diverse setting that evolves year after year. Nothing is too planned. The style is northwest, rustic and casual, but an appreciation of Asian gardens is expressed using more than fifty maple cultivars, arched cedar and stone bridges, and granite lanterns set among the ferns. A seasonally flowing stream cascades into a small pond in the winter. Pete and Cameron’s objective is a peaceful environment that hides and reveals elements as friends walk through it.
Garden: Tilthy Rich
A San Francisco backyard changing into an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden. With a compost pile and worm compost bins to boot!
Garden: Praxis Permaculture
We live in an 1940 log house on 4.5acres, originally built from trees on the property by homesteaders on Gabriola Island. Some of the trees and flowers are here from the 1st owners, some new.
The property is a mix of native species forest (fir, maple, garry oak, arbutus, yew, cedar, pin cherry, alder); meadow; fruit (apples, plum, apricot, peach, blue-, straw- and raspberries); specimen trees & shrubs (japanese maples, liquid amber, mock orange, forsythia, lilac); perennial flowers & vegetables.
We have a fenced (from the deer) area around the house with raised beds and lots of rock walls and stone paths. Water - or the lack of it - is our main issue. We have no lawn and I cut the meadow grasses with a scythe.
We see ourselves as stewards of this property in which we want to encourage as much of the native species as possible. We work with a forest gardener to manage the treed areas (thinning dying and dangerous trees, planting new ones). We have a naturally wet area on the low point on the property and want to restore the it as a wetland with native plants and trees.
Our property is home to many species of insects inc. butterflies and bees, birds, snakes, tree frogs, deer - and we have planted species of flowers especially with them in mind. We try to grow heirloom varieties and have had heritage chickens in the past.
This year, for the first time, I am attempting to grow mushrooms by inoculating alder logs with white oyster and shiitake mushroom spawn.
Garden: My little home garden
An experimetal garden of sorts. I'm pretty new at this so join me on my journey.
-N
Garden: Schoolhouse Rocks
We have inherited a former schoolhouse and the garden is the playground. We are near the Escarpment, which means rocks, and lots of them. Luckily, some former owners did most of the donkeywork, and it is my job to bring it back to life after many years of neglect.
Garden: Collecters Dream
Our gardens range from a rock garden border with English style plants in the front yard. To a full shade bed in the side yard. In the back we have our water garden with fish pond and along the back drive we started a perrienial butterfly garden. I love to plant perrienials and watch them grow each year. I love variety and have everything from old fashioned larkspur to modern asiatic lilies. I also love wildflowers and have tried my hand at a few. Last year we added snakeroot and it was beautiful blooming in June fast spreader also. I love creating places of interest and beauty. Always a work in progress our gardens are a fun way to teach our two kids.
Garden: Perptually in Progress
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.
Garden: 1 acre private yard
Beginning a relandscape project of almost one acre. Goals remove large front lawn area and replant with California natives and water wise plants and also just update the look. I have no formal training but hope this remake will provide me with lots of experience.
Garden: North of Star
We have just under 6 acres. Over the past 3 years we have been cleaning up the yard, putting in trees and bushes for shelter,and planting flowerbeds that require next to nothing for maintenance. So far maintenance wise we have been successful. I weed all my 4 flowerbeds and vegetable garden in about 2 hours total a week. Not bad
Garden: Trina's Herbs and Vegetables
I grow many herbs and have a big vegetables garden. I've just started collecting roses a few years ago and have about 35 different ones. I also have a pond that I made bigger last year.
Garden: Sharon's Garden
Overgrown!!! Rhodos, roses, fruit trees container gardening, tomatoes, lavender, herbs, and anything the deer or sheep don't eat
Garden: My Gentle Garden of Peace
This is where my heart is and my place of peace and sanity. I love to come and work in the soil and look at the colors and the changing shapes and sizes of the plants and to keep changing things year after years, adding this and removing that. I love to taste the produce from my tiny vegetable garden and complete with the weather and the creatures for the produce to see who will win this year.
It is always different and always challenging and always a feast to the eyes and the heart.
Garden: Haysboro Haven
My garden is a mixture of annuals, perennials and tropicals in beds, pots and baskets. I start as many plants as I can from seed every year. Tropicals are house plants in the winter.
Garden: Margie's Love Garden
A labor of love built with my family & friends over the past 25 years! Anything that grows!!
Garden: A Little Piece of Heaven
A collection of gardens featuring perennials, annuals, shrubery, pathways, water features and ornaments suitable to the sun/shade conditions. Several sitting areas provide interesting and colorful perspectives of the landscape.
Garden: 'Firefly Gardens'
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.
Garden: Mom's Garden
I Love to grow any kind of flower if it will survive in my yard. Very windy, and full sun to part shade, mixed soil conditions. Started a compost this year,( have tried before but not successful) The garden is always changing , mostly because I cannot make up my mind, that is always a good thing for my friends whom I give my extra plants to. I planted vegetables this year, and am loving the great taste of home grown veggies. yum.
Garden: 1212 Gabriola
The Garden Around our house. Check out the garden blog at: http://gardenof1212gabrioladrivecoquitlam.blogspot.com/
Garden: Carrigkilter Farm
We are trying to grow veg in what is normally a very wet climate! ( started 2009) - Most of the pumpkin/squash rotted! We hope to plant wildflowers around the basic lawns and we'll put in a couple of raised beds to save our poor old backs! Tony and I like to experiment growing different produce and varieties and challenging the weather!
Garden: Mary Veldman
Our garden consists of a mixture of perennials, shrubs, trees, annuals and vegetables. We love rocks and have retrieved the stones from many sources throughout Eastern Manitoba.
Garden: Charlie's Garden
For my ten years on this boggy bit of mountain land, my gardening has been driven by being an artist/sculptor, with just a small amount of food growing.
I have a polytunnel with tomatoes,peas,beans,
salads,some fruit and lots of propagation of perennials....and growing eucalyptus trees from seed.
In these Peak Oil, Climate Change times, I'm now learning about Permaculture and Edible Forests, and am planning to turn my remaining acre over to broadleaf trees, fruit trees and bushes, nut trees, and bio-mass crops.
A Huge learning curve!
My info says full sun....this year it's been full-on rain like never before!
Garden: Charmaine & David's Secret Garden
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.
Garden: Back Garden
I have lived here for 15 years and have added many plants on a whim! Some are in the right place some are not. The whole family use the space for many different activities. The garden has a southern aspect and is fully fenced.
Garden: Quiet oasis
100X100 lot using lots of themes and plant material. Xeriscaping,water,grasses,shade,english beds, roses,oldfashion beds,tropical, and vegetable. This garden was created 3 years ago.
Garden: Banagagole
Very slopey south east facing 1 acre site. Loamy well drained neutral soil. Roughly 3-4 inches of topsoil, parent rock is shale/limestone.
Garden: Patio paradise
A small courtyard garden packed with many perennials, containers, some veggies and herbs. I have planted for continuos bloom, fragrance and to attract wildlife.
It is a home to my two cats zoe and bee. They love to wander about scolding the birds when they come to the feeder. It is our sanctuary and respite from the modern madness.
Garden: Cloonmore
Just starting out on trying to get our garden into shape, growing fruit, veg and a few mixed borders
Garden: sticks and stones
We're building our garden from scratch. The builder who reno'd our house removed every speck of topsoil so we are left with reddish sandy soild and a LOT of rock. Every planting begins by breaking the soil with a pick axe and then removing the stones, some of them very large. So far, we have made small holes to start shrubs around the border of the front yard and otherwise relied on herbs and other plants that will flourish in poor soil. Now we want to start extensive work on our back yard. It is a small-ish space that we need to use intensively so we will be removing as much rock as we can and amending the remaining soil to make it more fertile. We plan to espalier fruit trees and grow grapes and hops along our fences. We also want to integrate some vegetable gardening with perennial plantings. We hope to include a clothes drying green, a seating area and some decorative features into the space.
Garden: A little bit of everything
I have multiple gardens and lots of giant evergreen trees. A variety of bushes and many many sq. ft of flowers I have all types of sun from full shade to full sun.
Garden: Lapaie's acreage.
This site was a former gravel pit when we started 9 years ago. The soil is very gravelly over a heavy clay base. The Southern Gulf Islands of BC are in a 'rain shadow' so water is limited. We think we have created a wonderful haven for birds and humans! Our garden includes a pond and stream, 18 fruit trees and raised boxes for vegetables.
Garden: Dark Creek Farm
Mix of vegetables, herbs, small orchard, garden pond, livestock, and wild areas on 1.67 acres. We're located on the Cordova Bay Ridge overlooking the Hunt Valley.
Garden: Simon's forest garden
Developing a food forest based on perennial fruit and nuts. Introduction of more native species, increased habitat diversity introducing coarse woody debris, rockeries, wildflower meadow. It's a work in progress
Garden: Mary's Garden
Haphazard. Huge lot. Bought house 4 yrs ago and no landscaping. Work in progress. High water table. Might be in 5b. Aiming at privacy. Looking for trees. Big plans,not much cash flow. Love gardening.
Garden: Blooms 'n Berries
Our garden is a kid and bird friendly space! We have 2 children, ages 2 and 8 and we love birds, butterflies and even the bugs! The garden is an outdoor classroom to our kids, since they get to learn so much from it! It is always colorful, both our front and backyards and I especially look forward to the arrival of "my" purple martins, that every spring come back to our backyard, all the way from MY BEAUTIFUL BRAZIL!!! I am proud of how much my garden draws the attention of our neighbours, especially since I had to relearn everything I knew about gardening, as plants here require different care from what I knew before. One of my favourite past times is taking pictures of my plants, birds, bugs and my family, of course!
Garden: The Brambles
A reclaimed Blackberry patch with an orchard, pond, butterfly garden and plans for a small vineyard in the future.
Garden: Residential Oasis
Capitol Hill property is not far removed from the 203 metre top of the hill. The yard runs east-west but the slope is toward the south so the majority of the garden is full sun. 5 years in and I have amended the flower beds with about 30 yards of soil, reclaimed a parking pad, added and expanded flower beds. A couple more years and I should have eliminated the lawn completely.
Garden: K's Horticultural Adventure
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!
Garden: Circle Y
Circle Y Farm includes rocky ridges, swamps, creeks, bottomland, forests, sunny locations, pastures, timberland, and more. All kinds of geography, with some in sun, sun in shade, and some in between.
Garden: Peace on Earth
My flowers & foliage are a scrap book of people , places & events significant to our life. I like for them to have color & invite beneficial bugs, birds & people to enjoy and share their beauty. Photographing the blooms & bugs is a large part of the joy the garden shares.
Garden: an octopus' garden in the shade
a little of this and a little of that, area gardens wherever it looked balanced, alot of planting where ever the bulbs or seeds landed!
Garden: Annie's Gardens
We have a small orchard, perennial gardens, shade gardens, butterfly gardens, vegetable gardens, wildlife gardens, fruit gardens and we're always adding more. We have a large place in the country and many variable conditions.
Garden: Pritypetals
We have a little bit of everything and trying to figure out what we're doing at the same time. Fruit trees, grave vines, nut trees. houseplants on the patio, and a half acre of champaign dreams with a koolaid budget.
Garden: Gaïardin
Gaïardin is situated on a 3.5 acre with includes an old apple orchard, perennials, medicinal plants, herbs, vegetables and garlic.
Garden: Sandy's Garden
I have flower beds on all sides of the house. The back was mostly shade until we lost a big tree last winter. I have a mixture of perennials, shrubs and bulbs.
Garden: Clare and Barrys Garden
a mixed classic/edible garden in the process of being renovated after years of neglect!
umpteen mature trees and shrubs and interesting landscape - back turned over to be a gravelled kitchen garden
Garden: Porter Palace Posies
An elaborate experiment in horticultural darwinism and scroogish propagation. Bird, butterfly and kid friendly.
Garden: Carran Hill Cottage Garden
A new garden at my cottage that i am restoring high on carran hill near geevagh, co. Sligo in ireland it is very exposed to the south and west.
I started three years ago planting trees and shrubs to be the bones of the garden and as a wind break my plans have changed every week and when i go to the garden centre i am like a kid in a sweet shop !
Garden: Pamela's garden
My garden is in Days Bay, Eastbourne. In the front it is mostly a cottage style garden with roses and lawn. Amongst my roses are fox gloves, granny bonnets, pentstemons and much more. In the back I have rhododendrons and camelias underplanted with hostas, and renga lilies.A small herb and vegetable garden features in the back also. The total size of our land is 1/4 acre.
Garden: Ian's Garden
First Zantedeschia Pentlandii flower grown from seed. 2 years. Seed kindly supplied by a national bulb-growing / propagating / selling company without charge to me. Isn't it beautiful! Zants are my favorite flower aside from Gloriosa Rothschildiana/Superba, but I have no luck with them.
Wild and weird abstract collection of plants mainly grown from seeds & cuttings. Climate Zone Summer Rainfall, Winter frost. Soil Type acidic loam to clay to well-drained. North-facing slope, between high walls. 24 square metres. See others at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4285&id=1457234328&l=2fc912be34
Garden: My Heavenly Retreat
I am unable to get around but, my garden is my
outlet and when in bloom it is a place truly to take your problems away. It is still an ongoing design and has many 'rooms', even the dogs are allowed to run in certain areas. A bird haven and child friendly.
Garden: nixon and whelan
many big fruit trees- avocado, litchi and others mean that full sun is limited and thus we have a lot of plectranthus and clivia. full sun beds are about 100 rosebushes, veggies, and mixed borders.
Garden: Haven on the hill
Four separate gardens - pavement garden planted entirely with indigenous and waterwise; front garden; main garden and bottom garden
Garden: TB garden
Formal garden out the front, natives scattered & vegies either end, plus some edibles througout the formal garden
Garden: Rocky Top
I have a 3 acre yard/garden with large trees, flowers, a spot I am working on for my veggie/fruit garden. I am growing rose of sharon, forsythia, lilacs, roses, hostas, lilies, pink flowering almond, wildflowers, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, etc... I have blackberries, black raspberries (both wild), strawberries, blueberrry bushes, Jerusalem artichokes, sedums, wild purple phlox, tame phlox, grapes, pears, peaches, cherries, and many others. The rest of my place is mostly wooded.
Garden: Dori's patch
Began by covering an erroding hillside in what was a crazing pasteur. Have spread out since then -- fruit trees, a native garden, a succulent garden and one full of grevillias. working to build up the soil. Gardening keeps me sane.
Garden: BT's Busy Garden
My house is in County Clare, in a little spot called Doorus, next to Lough Graney. I have 5 acres of land but 3 of those are meadow. It is all very damp as I live next to a bog, with my husband. He has been associated with horticulture all his life and I have always been a gardener.
We have mostly mixed beds with a core of shrubs and perennials plus some annuals for colour. Cosmos do particularly well and dahlia. We have many bulbs, tulips and daffodils plus others. We have a large contorted willow in the front lawn.
A stream runs down the land when it rains, but soon dries up if it ever stops raining. My husband grows vegetables, gladioli and the annuals from seed. We love our fresh vegetables.
When we moved here, the front garden had been laid out with walls with plants in the tops of them. We have added several beds.
Garden: Vivero Artesanal
No es propiamente un jardín, sino un vivero con sentido ecológico, artesanal y comercial.
Garden: Jardin Mary El Preferido
Our Garden is a long time traditional nursery we have fruit plants and many other species
we are in about 2000 feet above the sea level
Directed to the lovers of the nature who want to learn to cultivate plants and to enjoying the nature
misiòn:
To offer to them the oprotunity of estimating, knowing and loving the plants and to enjoy the nature, to love to it ,understand it and to preserve it
Garden: Patricias Paradise
Just now getting serious about my garden.I have quite a bit of land to work on I also have several fruit trees already, 4 Avacado trees, 2 Guava,1 Navel Orange tree,a lemon tree, 2 lima trees, 2 peach trees and lots of shade trees. Alot of cactus plants. It rains quite a bit during the summer months. I want to start a vegetable garden, so I´m starting to prepare the design and the land. wish me luck. I will send pics as soon as I have them.
Garden: Quinta Quijotito
An organic garden, mostly raised beds, containing culinary herbs, medicinal herbs, flowers and vegetables.
Garden: Debbie's garden
1200m2 1/2 lawn - informal, Have two big coral trees - one front garden the other back. Have a small vege garden as well. Arums, Agapanthus, Petria creeper, Wysteria creeper, Jasmine creeper, Banksia roses, Galpinia trees, bouganvilla intense pink, Have a small earthworm farm, some crotons, Mock Orange bushes and ciggarette tree over birdbath.
Garden: Shaunlee
An emerging farmhouse garden. All plantings only a few years old at the most. Continuing to plant and plan as we go along. Aiming to grow some shade and wind breaks but having problems with the drought and learning which species grow best in our climate and soil type.
Garden: Tribute to Gaiia
I have a backyard raspberry, grape, mint soil garden; a tomato, pepper, bean, cucumber container garden; an herb flower box garden; a perennial garden and a winter indoor herb, tomato, pepper potting mix/hydroponic/aeroponic garden
Garden: Marc's Arad Garden
My all year round arid climate/desert garden is about 430 square meters on 2 levels on a east facing slope in Arad,Israel.From the garden the view is quite spectacular looking in to the great rift valley with the Dead Sea and beyond that the mountains of the Kingdom of Jorden.Outside my garden is the Judean desert and a wadi[dry river bed]with limestone caves used by Beduins up till the '90 and probably by ancient man.
Lower garden is in back of the house and is mostly trees.One section is a succulent garden surrounding a Washingtonia palm with several cactus in between.Edible fruit trees include[included a Granny Smith apple],white mulberry,2 figs,loquat,lemon,lemon-lime and red grapefruit,2 pomagranites and an almond.Ornamental trees are 2 Washingtonia palms,pepper,jacaranda,2 chinaberries,pastacia & misc.desert specie.An overgrown privet has reached tree size.
Upper level in front of the house is between 2 rows of 10 Jerusalem[aleppo]pines on opposite borders.Trees are a Norway Island pine[from house pot],tipuanna[biggest],3 ficus,2 white locust,fig,tabor oak and spike trunked unidentified.Between the trees and against the house are many many pots as the tree roots have closed much of the garden space.As it is,the soil is on limestone bedrock and less than a meter thick.In the ground are many aloes and succulants,some lantana as well as agaves.Under the pines aloes are the only plant that grows well.A pointsette is about 2M tall as I've had it since the 90's!
Garden: El Fuerte Haven
Our backyard is huge so we have everything from full sun to full shade. We have avocado, guayaba, naranjita, mango, papaya, lime, mandarin, orange and plum trees. We also have tons of flowers and lots of shade plants. The garden overlooks the El Fuerte river so it is a very peaceful place to relax.
Garden: Rebecca's Spell Garden
An ever evolving riot of colour, herbs and food on a quarter acre suburban block. Nourishing body, mind and soul.
Garden: Los Marcelinos
Our garden was hard fought for out of scrubland surrounding a ruined cortijo and an olive grove. The planting progress was mostly trial and error at first but once we found what our terrain was suited to - mostly by digging out the plants which didn't overwinter in this mountainous region - everything we planted did very well. The garden is spread out to the front, sides and rear of our home, with front and back marbled patios and pool area bordered with an assortment of planted bushes, trees, flowers, cacti and potted plants. We are quite proud of what we have achieved in the 9 years we have been living here both with our garden and the restored cortijo. I look forward to meeting likeminded people who enjoy the challenges and joys of gardening in Spain.
Garden: Casa Julian
My garden is like Topsy -it just grew. My main garden area is to the front and is mainly lawn and shrubs under Umbrella pines, with a Lime tree and a couple of olive trees. I have an Orleander hedge to the front - I have plans to turn the part in front of the house into a formal Italian garden. At the side of the house I have a pool side garden which is only in its second year and consists mainly of interesting shrubs and container plants. At the other side of the house is my olive grove and Orto (vegetable garden)At the front of the Olive grove I have planted a Pittisphorum hedge but it is not doing very well. I have lots of ideas, very little cash and less energy than I used to have so progress is slow!
Garden: chez dennett
1/3 acre previously a field. Now with some borders and fruit trees created last year - work in progress
Garden: My private jungle
Established medium-sized suburban garden with many large trees, planting mostly indigenous plants, focus on attracting birds & other wildlife to the garden. Have large population of birds - visiting & nesting in the garden, also bats, butterflies, geckos, skinks, etc. Owl box installed, to date no-one has taken upo residence.
Garden: La Parata
A Patio/Terraced garden in South East Spain. Most of the terrace is tiled but we have four small borders with shrubs, herbs and a few bulbs. One other is awaiting planting as we have justed moved an espalier peach tree from here. The terrace has many pots but in summer everything requires daily/twice daily watering as we fry. The compensation for this is no frosty,cold winters.
Garden: Buhrdery
Part English country garden, water wise garden, vegetable garden, park, trees for Africa, wilderness, shade garden
Garden: The Greater Garden Going on Around Me
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!
Garden: Controlled chaos
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
Garden: paradise
this garden is full from conifers(cedars abies piceas)trees,deciduous trees and shrubs,annoual and perenial flowers and the last two years structures for birds(geese ducks pheasants ets)and dogs
Garden: Casal da Boticária
Three year old amateur flower, herb and vegetable garden, about a dozen old apricot-trees and another dozen new fruit trees. Part of nature reserve (with oaks, olive trees and many others), no fencing (to the North), wild rabbits, stray cats, etc....
Garden: Always bloom
Lots of flowers that bloom at different times during the summer. Most of my gardens are very simple, more wild flowers than rose type gardens. I base most of my design on color and a cutting garden. The key to any good garden is to cut, cut, cut; it keeps plants healthy and blooming. Another important factor is the soil - always prepare your soil before planting. Love to work the ground, I think I am a farmer-girl at heart.
Garden: el jardin del abue
It's a new garden with a ravine, very good soil,sun and time to grow it with citrus trees,and other fruit tress.
Also old oak trees,in the land of eternal spring (Guatemala),in the way to develop or try to do it a Japanece Garden.I have now enough time (24 hrs a day) to work.
Garden: From mess to success?
My garden in the Adelaide hills is a weed filled mess as I've been too busy working part time and having babies. Now youngest (and last) child is 6 months old I want to start reclaiming my garden front, back and sides! Here for inpiration...
Garden: Zion 2
electic mix of vege and flowers also like the unusual likeorchids and carnivorous plants.
Garden: The Little Garden That Coul
I fell in love with this wraparound garden. It's not large but there are are over 120 different plants in it, some quite unusual. It has a lot of flowering shrubs, one of which has a wonderful fragrance...in January!! There is a fair bit of shade, but I take advantage of the sunny spots. It's really mild here on the west coast so I can grow things which wouldn't otherwise be possible. It's my haven
Garden: casa dona luisa
small land plot in front with giant phildendrons, mock orange, lime and alemendras. about 300 container plants i would like to learn what they are and how to take beter care of them.
Garden: bad fish heights
This is a testament to effort and wish fufillment - side of hill very exposed very cottagee lot of edibles and just the best really. We have recently opened a garden store in Te aro - called grow from here - 2w1 Abel Smith st (between cuba and Taranaki-um
Garden: Laurie Lane
We have a large lot in the village of Metcalfe, with mature Silver and Red Maple trees, evergreens and a crabapple. A few years ago we put in a pond, and most recently built a screened-in porch that overlooks the pond. It is a little bit of heaven.
Garden: Casa Azelia
Mine is a terraced garden, not specially large, rising up away from the house like a long thin triangle with the point above the top terrace. When I bought it, during a drought, there wasn't much more than three terraces which should have been grass but were just dust, two rows of vines, and a dead tree.
The first thing I did was plonk an above ground pool on the bottom terrace - a great success as it was quick and relatively cheap, but diasterous aesthetically - cue extension of paved terrace, dry stone walls, steep rose bed in front of pool, and shady pergola.
In the past few years I have also added three pencil pines (which I tried to prune, with unhappy consequences); oleanders to screen the satellite dish; and two beautiful old olive trees. The first olive died so the second one came free. The dead one is now dedicated to the cats for climbing and scratching, and to a pretty blue climber, I dont know its name but it looks like a small flowered clematis, but isn't.
Roses grow like weeds here, and my other successes are the wildflower meadow, and my parsnips which I grew from seed - and am currently enjoying!!! Other favourite 'doers' include plumbago, solanum, wisteria, clematis, buddleia, lagerstroemium, lavender, rosemary and pinks. I irrigate as little as possible but am lucky enough to have a well for necessary watering. This year I hope to improve the wildflower garden and extend the pergola a little - money and help permitting.
Garden: Mrs J. Bannister
I have an oblong garden which needs a lot of attention. I started clearing flowerbeds last year that had been over run with weeds, creepers & left to its own devices, however Im new to gardening in the UK after living abroad much of my life & would love some ideas on improving it into somewhere joyful & pleasant on the eye. We intend to build a sun deck & add a gazebo in the summer. There are a number of trees surrounding the garden, so Im not sure where to start
Garden: Bring some of America to Japan
Just a garden that is trying to bring some of home here to Japan. A small English garden style in the front and a bordered lawn in the backyard with something of a Japanese style garden in one corner.
Garden: East Geelong garden
My garden was established by my grandfather, though I have changed it substantially since he was alive, planting more native plants, cottage type plants, and now lots of vegetables.
Garden: Magpie's Nest
Garden generally made up of cuttings and plants from friends & family.... giving me a patchwork of plants, shrubs & flowers which remind me of my fellow gardening friends
Garden: Journeyman's Garden
I'm a travelling gardener - I move like a migrating brid between hemispheres, designing building and maintaining gardens in Australia and the UK.
Will upload poictures from gardens I create and develop!
Garden: My Oasis of Peace
1,000 m2 of plants, meandering paths leading to different areas, some secluded, some open, 1 freefall waterfall into hidden tank, 1 cascade into open pond with water Iris and other aquatic plants, future home for two turtles, some fruit trees, lots of pines for wind breaks, rose arches, several banks and benches for contemplation, small greenhouse - complete my little haven!
Garden: DreamGarden
I just got the garden with a natural pond in it and I wanted to make it as my dream garden. Or close to it :)
Garden: My Little Piece of Mind
It's a mix of flowers, herbs, some vegetables and roses in the cloud forest of Central Guatemala.
Garden: Roses&old trees
We\\\'ve got this garden from ex-owner of big homestead.It has 100\\\'year old lindens around. A group of old apple trees in the center, 3 huge maples, 2 domed thujas in front of the house,flower garden of 2 symmetrical parts in front of windows,25 English rosebush,many decorative buch in green fences, rhododendrons etc..
Garden: Les Jardins du Château de Padiès
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
Garden: My Farm
Various spring bulbs, summer perennials, roses, shrubs, etc., including Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Hydrangea, daisies, etc.
Garden: weeds2roses
Established yard that has become mostly shady except for small front yard. Pond, fruit trees, and lilies.
Garden: Brandy's garden
My garden in the backyard is large with lots of roses and perennials. I enjoy putting in some annuals as well and like lots of colour. Last year I removed several large rhodos from my front yard as they were looking messy and they are not my favourite even if I am the one who planted them many years ago. I was able to recycle most of them by placing them at the end of our driveway and over a couple of days they all disappeared. I enjoy gardening and especially now as I am retired.
Garden: Country Garden
Country Style Garden on 10 acres. Mainly growned from cuttings and divisions in the last 4 years.
Garden: SUSAN PATCH
Many veggies, beetroot, spring onions, runner beans, cos lettuce and pumpkin. Strawberries, raspberries & rhubarb. Flowers that don't require a lot of water.
Garden: maggi's basque/english garden
I have a large, south-facing garden, with a large area of grass (lawn would be a misnoma),a hen run, fruit trees and bushes,a small pond,a vegetable plot and 2 large raised beds for veg, a patio with lots of container plants, some cottage garden beds, a loose hedge with old roses, hazel,loquat,japanese quince and witch hazel, and a sun room which doubles as a greenhouse.Also a trellis with honeysuckle, jasmine, clematis and trachelospermum.I have planted as many fragrant plants as possible, as this aspect of the garden is very important to me.
Garden: jane's garden in need of more time
I have a lovely little garden but not enough time to spend on it, or design it properly
Garden: postage stamp
tiny shady garden, with fish pond, decking, gravel shrubs, herbacios border, small fruit patch & bird feeder. Iplant with a trowel & shoe horn. Front not touched yet, side bank 5' by 30' over grown with brambles :- this ears project.
Garden: Greenhouse in the Sky - Kas in de Wolken
Small walled city garden + roof garden with greenhouse :~)
Klein stads tuin met kas op het dak terrace :~)
Garden: Sue & Tom's Garden
We grow a wide variety of vegetables, flowers and fruit trees. We pretty much feed ourselves vegetables and fruits from the garden (organic and spray-free) most of the year. Looking to do more. Involved with seed saving and loving it!
Garden: le jardin de popilé
annuals, perenials, vegetables and whatevers grows in an alitude of 1000 meters
Garden: Stark's 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.
Garden: The Rectory Garden
Out the front we have many trees and flowering shrubs- one side we have the veg and herb patch- the other side ( sunny side) has the Verandah with exotics and hanging baskets. The back garden is mostly lawn with wild borders
Garden: moments of joy and quietness
Roses, rosemary and camelias...geraniums, passion fruit and lavender... aples, oranges and pears... a variety of tasty vegetables and herbs...cactus and aloes... a never ending fantasy...
Garden: Kate's area of peace and joy
Growing a mixture of plants, trees and shrubs, have a large pond, slowly working towards making it all manageable every year rather than manageable in parts as now. Live at 200m so get choice of plant wrong sometimes for the climate. Garden full of birds, rabbits at times and moles quite frequently. Red aquirrels regularly feed at the feeders.
Garden: Ruth & Rowland's main working interest.
One acre of former sandunes with house in the middle. None formal flower borders and vegetable plots, not orderly with some trees & bushes scattered all over the place. Undulating grass & moss and lots of growth in large pots around house, etc. Large grassy area for party gazebos and barbecue parties! Very exposed to northerly sea winds and surrounded by fields.
Garden: suburban homestead
Some edible landscaping including grapevines, hops and wild rose + deciduous & fruit trees + some evergreen and bamboo, plans for greenhouse, permaculture vegetable garden.
Garden: Vicki n Paul's place
Sandy, sunny, windy. We've planted trees, have lots of useful plants in big pots, lots of succulents, lots of edibles, some rare. We try and grow some food when it's not too hot.
Garden: Tabor work-in-progress
When I bought my house I inherited a wonderful yard with many mature trees and shrubs. I'm working on adding lots of bright beautiful flowers. I love the idea of good fresh healthy food just outside my door so I've been adding raised beds for fruits, veggies and kitchen herbs.
I have many excess plants and shrubs as well as rasberry and strawberry starts. I'm always up for plant swaps. I'm still a little green at gardening and would enjoy the insights of other gardeners trying things out in lovely Portland.
Garden: Hennie's Garden
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.
Garden: Lake Forest Park sun/shade mix
Flowers, fruit trees, vegetables, and shrubs coexist with a few large trees.
Garden: AJoiB Wants a Beautiful Garden
The front garden is still bare in this all attached brick townhouse in Brooklyn. HELP!
Garden: pops garden
garden next to the sea and mountain. lots of wind and water. boggy in parts. trying raised beds with windbreaks to see if i can grow any veg. noone near by seems to grow garden plants. rabbits and sheep abound
Garden: Soulful Gardening
Veggies, Perennials, Annual flowers, Perennial veggies, watergardening, bulbs, shrubs, ROSES, and tropicals. Wanting to continue to learn more about all these plants and growing in Colorado. Also want to plant fruit trees this upcoming season.
Garden: Jule's Little Garden
Trying to reclaim/establish the garden of a foreclosure. Yard has been neglected for quite a few years, I'm a Virginia gardener getting used to CO, missing the dogwoods, azaleas, boxwoods, magnolias and rhodies. Anything I can learn would be wonderful! I did learn that roses and lavender to great out here. Need to get busy with grass first, then flowers and herbs.
Garden: Jen's Garden
My garden is a combo of trees, shrubs,flowers and veggies. The landscaping was done in the early 1980s and continues to evolve. The location is the high plains above the South Platte river.
Garden: Gay's Mountain garden
I have a large yard on the side if a mountain, alot of rocks, terraces. Open to wildlife so am learning what they eat and usually won't eat.
Sedum, hosta, sage, ornamental grasses, blue spruce, conifer, vinca.
Will plant Aspen this spring. Yucca.
Garden: Bea's Butterfly & Hummer Garden
I have two small areas for succulents and Calif. grasses; orange tree with ferns underneath; a start on a variety of mints; and pots of fragrent geraniums. I like to plant herbs & tomatoes. 4 roses on the side of the house. That's about it for the space I have available.
Garden: Kat's Island Home
5 acres of sun and shade, ponds, forest and several planting areas that make up shade and sun gardens and everything in between.
Garden: Wisteria Lane in Glengormley
My garden is a long narrow urban garden which I have divided into different sections depending on what I feel like at the time. The one we are working on at the moment is the vegetable garden which my daughter Rachel said was a "bit desperate housewives" hence Wisteia Lane. Like most gardens it is an ongoing project and will probably never get finished as I change my mind too much about how I want things. It is mostly a pretty garden with a lot of cottage garden flowers and shrubs.
Garden: work in progress
areas of peace and solitude combined with functional areas such as greenhouse and vegetable garden...Oh thers the play area too which looks like a bombsite..Couldnt live without the shed, and cant wait for the greenhouse
Garden: Erica's Garden
Front garden is "square foot gardening" - lot of seasonal edibles, herbs and ornamentals. Also container gardening and garden art. Back garden is more ornamentals and art. Heaven!
Garden: Plantasia
I have been removing lawn and adding more plants every year. I spread my multiplying perennials and bulbs all over the place: in friends' gardens, and I confess to impulsive "guerilla gardening." I'm running out of space and want to stretch out, maybe out to a more rural spot.
Garden: Urban Oasis trial garden
This garden has transformed a grass and dirt parking area into an inner city oasis. The subsoil is a crushed brick/incinerator waste mix with copious amounts of broken glass. Despite that, the garden has flourished for 7 years and has only had a sprinkler on it 3 times!
Garden: The Putterer's Garden
By day The Putterer, aka Beth Py-Lieberman, is an editor at Smithsonian magazine. At night and on the weekends, when The Putterer is not busy as a wife and mother, she likes to putter in the garden. http://www.gardenputter.blogspot.com/
Garden: Justin's Garden
The back garden is pretty small, about 45 feet square. It's split into areas, such as an Italian formal garden with clipped box and palms, a woodland garden with a pond, ferns and dappled shade, and a lawn with flowers and banans. There's also a patio with decking and a spa pool.
Garden: Woodland Garden
My garden is in a coastal forest setting amongst some really old trees and nikau palms. It's a mix of edible and cottage plantings; started from scratch after removal of heaps of ginger and other problem weeds.
Garden: urban oasis midway
A cozy Urban Oasis tucked into a small backyard. Reclaimed granite cobbles wind their way playfully through an intimate garden of ornamental trees, conifers and perennials. An improvised design.
Garden: subUrban Oasis
When you have a hill, especially in Minnesota, use it! This garden playfully uses trees, shrubs and ornamental conifers to dramatize changes in elevation. Though the space itself is not that large, the garden seems like it's own world.
Garden: ENGLISH DISABLED FRIENDLY GARDEN
My garden has been designed to make it easier for me to garden from a wheelchair. I have old chimney pots, sinks and other architectural planters which I can tend to the plants in them from my wheelchair. My garden is divided into sections by wrought iron work dividers. I can tend to one section each day if I so wish. I grow a wide variety of trees and shrubs. I like to take cuttings and I grow a lot of annuals from seeds which keeps the cost down. I have a small vegetable patch & also grow vegetables interspersed with other plants on my plot.
Garden: Whimsical commercial design by Urban Oasis
A sun-baked parking area surprisingly gives way to a Japanese-influenced yet ruggedly American design. Raised steel beds wend their way through trap rock paths while reclaimed cobbles frame a raised flower garden. It's a modernistic vision rendered in a humane, post-industrial vernacular.
Garden: Cozy urban oasis
This garden is only 10 feet wide at the widest point. Despite that I managed to fit in a lot of material and ideas without things feeling crowded. It is a completely improvised design. Hope you like it.
Garden: Our very small townhouse garden
A little bit of everything. Lots of pots, a few trees, small fountain, bird feeders, herbs for the kitchen, mosaic artworks, grass for the dogs and even a barbaque area for the man of the house.
Garden: urban oasis in progress
I wanted to document the progress on a garden I designed for a friend. He is doing much of the actual work himself. Hopefully you enjoy the metamorphosis.
Garden: Urban sprawl. The good kind.
A garden originally installed by Masterpiece of Mtka and revised/tended by Urban Oasis for the past decade.
Garden: John & Dea's Suburban Paradise
We are striving for a 'Gardenesque' style - a combination between an old english cottage garden and a naturalistic garden. We started the garden in 2009. Eventually most of the yard will be gone and it will be taken over with beds and paths. We would be more than happy to trade seeds or cuttings with others.
Garden: Laurie's mini homestead
South East facing, pears, apples, plums, grapes, veggies of all types, mature hedges & conifers, elders, some wildflower areas, acers & elders, bit of lawn for lying/playing on, decking to reach different areas & for leisure. Conservatory used as green house.
Garden: Gabi's Veggie Patch
This year I am growing herbs (thyme, basil, parsley, coriander, curry, lemon grass, oreganos and mint) for my cooking fancy, tomatoes (plum, beefsteak, Marmande and cherry tomato varieties),cucumbers, courgettes, broccoli, eggplants, lettuce, runner beans, honeydew melon and raspberries. I also have a lemon & lime trees, 2 avocados that haven't given any fruit yet, a guayaba and an apricot tree. I am also experimenting with seeds from a japanese square watermelon variety that a friend of mine gave to me.
Garden: orchidlover55 in Paradise
I row lots of bromalaids natives, lots of mulched beds with butterfly plants. Also, vegetables and herbs.
Garden: AJ's Garden
We've got a big garden with a wide variety of sun exposure, full shade to full sun. I'm just starting to work with roses, and have a small zen garden in the works.
Garden: My sad little garden
Trying to grow some of everything...veggies, herbs, flowers, fruit. Moved from Ohio to southern Mississippi, and what works in Ohio doesn't cut it here. Need some friendly advice.
Garden: Urban parisian jungle
Balcon plein nord accueillant avec entrain mais sans savoir-faire des plantes trouvées, transbahutées, troquées ou clandestines venues dont on ne sait où...
Messy parisian balcony where grow lost, exchanged or travelling plants and seeds.
The inexperimented gardeners are 2 kids (4 & 8) and me (please, don't ask...).
Garden: Parc du Grand Blottereau - Nantes - France
"Cette propriété de Thomas Dobrée, grand négociant et armateur de Nantes, entre dans le domaine communal en 1905.
La rénovation du parc, commencée dans les années 1990, invite le promeneur à se familiariser avec des plantes des régions chaudes du globe, s'étendant de la Méditerranée aux tropiques.
Après la création d'une rocaille méditerranéenne, de nouveaux aménagements voient le jour : bayou américain, bananeraie, jardin coréen.
Les serres d'agronomie tropicale hébergent des plantes d'intérêt économique : caféier, cacaoyer, papayer, ananas, ylang-ylang, jasmin, teck, ébène, arbre à pain, arbre à lait...L'ensemble constitue une collection thématique unique en son genre."
(http://www.nantes.fr/le-parc-du-grand-blottereau)
Bert
A garden newbie. Enjoy reading and learning about all the proper ways to garden, then have a "let's see what this does" attitude in my own gardens. Started gardening in 2008 and have tried very hard just to patiently wait to see what returned this year. I have hardscaping to do before I add the new gardens that I have planned. Patience, patience, patience :) Grandpa was a gardener. I remeber stealing his fresh peas and tiny baby carrots straight out of the garden :)
Elizabeth A
This is our fourth year here, and I am still trying out various plants in various sites, both perennials and annuals, to see what likes being in which garden, all of which get varying degrees of shade. Herbs are also a favourite, and I've begun to grow some tomatoes and hot peppers. A "temenos" is a parcel of land reserved as a sacred retreat, and this is my experience of my gardens, inclusive of hard work, meditation, joy and relaxation. Montreal's summers are short; our gardening months are intensive and celebratory!
Leesa White
We bought our quaint little house a few years ago now, and we're just getting around to the serious garden planning. We've changed a few things since we moved in, of course; but now it's time to start making some significant steps in the direction we'd like our gardens to take. Eventually, we'd like to replace the entire front lawn with a more natural-looking and easy-care landscape: native plants, wildflowers, and perennials, especially those that attract and are beneficial to wildlife. This year I've started replacing small sections of the front lawn with assorted shrubs, plants, and grasses, while trying to keep the bees, butterflies, birds, and even the squirrels in mind when making my selections. We enjoy watching the birds that "flock" (pardon the pun!) to our gardens, and although some consider squirrels to be pests, we really enjoy the antics of these furry little clowns as well.
Jeff
The son of a grower/landscaper. I have been exposed to gardening in the Niagara Peninsula, the Ottawa Valley, Montreal and most recently southwestern Ontario. My father has been a real inspiration teaching me to view a garden as a multifarious wonderland of styles. Over the years I have learned to take time to enjoy the garden, observing its growth from different perspectives by sitting in a patio, walking along a path, or gazing out a window. My wife's love of photography has captured many of the changing sites while documenting a visual record of each garden's occupants and habits.
Lorna
I began gardening about 16 years ago when I bought my small home at this address. It had a very large backyard with half of it previously used as a vegetable garden. the previous owner grew corn and potatoes which took up a large amount of space. I tried to garden that space for a couple of years but had so much produce that I could not begin to keep up with the work. I leveled the land and seeded most of it to grass and put in some beds for flowers and bushes around the edges and one in the middle. I left one side for my vegetable garden. Over the years I have added arches and built boxes for my vegetables and graveled walkways and changed things many times. It has been a learning process. But always it has been rewarding and stress reducing. I have found peace here in this small piece of earth. I don't think I have become an expert in anything floral. I just keep blundering away planting this and that and if it works, it stays. If it doesn't I try something else. But I always love when something grows and looks wonderful. It brings such a sense of wonder when a plant gives you its beauty and opens its petals to the sun and to you . I love it.
Julie Phillips
When I garden, it takes all the cares away. I kinda forget myself and just focus on the task at hand. It brings me back in touch with myself and the simpler things.
Valerie A
These gardens are a work in progress...only two years old...mostly perennials..each year I try to do a little more organization. Most of the plants have come from friends, family and just a few have been bought.
Angel Dubois
I have lived in this area of the city for nine years. The garden started out as a veggie garden but too many challenges to overcome...so I started planting interesting perrenials and annuals. My garden is now a rambling mass of growth that gives this dreary neighbourhood a bright spot to enjoy. I have many compliments when I am working in my yard by those passing by.
Diann Toler
We live on a farm NE Nebraska and have fruit trees, berries, shrubs, perennials, annuals, veggies, and we just keep adding. We have raised beds that feature our antique horse drawn equipment. We have trumpet vines crawlig up the windmill. We're building a gazebo out of a very old metal slatted corncrib. We have heritage plants here that are over 150 years old. We plant a lot of things for the birds and butterflys. We grow a lot of our own food. I regularly make pickles, several kinds of jams, dried apples, and we grow chcken, guineas, mules and buffalo. The biggest challenges in our climate are the extreme wind and weather. Many things that are supposed to grow in our climate, just die. We love seeing other gardens and meeting serious gardeners of any pesuasion.
Tara
After many years of growing things in various places I finally have my own garden! It's a total wreck in desperate need of being totally dug up cleared out re-soiled and fertilised but it will be done!
Ann
My place is an old farm stead, the house is old (1920). I call it a fixer upper, and my kids call it a knocker-downer. It is about 9 acres total, mostly wooded.
raffaella ferretti
What can I say? ... I travelled a lot and last year, we finally decided to find our dream house for us, the kids, and our pets and horse. We decided to go "eco" and we are still involved with the restauration of the house... a typical "loghino" in the Mantova (Mantua) country. Hopefully, next spring I'll be able to to plant some trees and bushes as well as flowers and roses. I'd love to plant Hydrangeas and old roses, besides all the beautiful plants typical of an English garden. I'd like to attract butterflies, have my children engage with the magic of nature, open the windows and smelling the sweet perfumes of the aromatics, and warmely and cheerfully welcome my visitors! I have a lot to do: prepare the ground, add a sprinkler system or at least some watering features (on a surface of 5000 sqm), and then the fun part: go to garden centers and study the best solutions for my area. All in all, I think I will be able to post some photos only next summer!!!
GardenJot GardenBot
I take many forms and am currently the robot found on the roof garden of the The Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. I spend my time searching the web for public and community gardens to add to the GardenJot map.
Dawn Ridler
Having originally got an honours degree in botany before getting stuck into an MBA, my garden is the only place I have ever used those hard one talents!
Nicolas
My experience is based on many years of subtropical gardening in California. I've been in Central Mexico for almost 7 years and still learning how different this climate is. The wealth of bugs, birds and critters is so diversified that I am afraid to use anything stronger than a blast of water to rid the garden of pests. I would rather be out in the garden than anywhere else. I also have a desert garden in Arizona that I've been developing for the last 4 years.
