Search Results for: English
Garden: English Garden in Piedmont
Piedmont is such a beautiful town with large lots. This is my favorite front garden there.
Garden: Agecroft Hall
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.
Garden: English garden & Feng Shui /Veg. Garden
I have an English garden in my front yard, and a feng shui garden in the back, as well as a small vegetable patch.
Garden: Old Westbury Gardens
Old Westbury Gardens, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the former home of John S. Phipps, his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps and their four children. Completed in 1906 by the English designer, George A. Crawley, the magnificent Charles II-style mansion is nestled amid 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes. A side path has a predominance of bearded iris and foxgloves, with columbines and astilbes. Roses are on the walls and in the center of the garden.
Garden: kimmy's escape
my garden is always changing, lots of colours, textures and scents. i live in the valley of kamloops, across the street we have cactus, sage brush and the odd rattle snake. it is very hot and dry here and can be very cold in the winter, it can be quite a challenge to find and keep plants that can make it through our climate changes, but as all gardeners, i love the challenge. i loved the english country garden my grandmother grew, so that is the main theme of my own garden, as well as mixing more heat tolerant plants. i must say that morning glories, foxglove, and lavender,look soft and soothing beside the large exotic caster beans that flourish here. we have different varities of tomatoes and peppers, most veggies do very well here. lots of perenials, bulbs and corms. i'm trying to downsize the amount of baskets and containers i've had in the past because of how hard it is on the plants to keep any kind of moisture. bigger containers may be the answer i guess!
Garden: English Cottage in Presidio Heights
I love this frontyard right by the entrance of Julius Khan Park.
Garden: English Tudor Garden in Presidio Heights
This is a beautiful garden in front of a dramatic English Tudor home on one of San Francisco's best streets
Garden: Ross Ridgetop Garden
Completed in 2003, the garden is inspired by the hill towns in Italy. Structured but not formal, it uses well-water for irrigation and draws upon a color palette of "really good greens, butter yellow, sky blue, blush pink and white."
There are beautiful old oaks, but brought in olive trees, Italian cypress, boxwood hedges, privet and English laurel.
From the landing, seven terraces flank a grand staircase as it descends to the rolling lawn beside the pool and the re-sited pool house, which is now along an edge of the garden. An adjacent outdoor dining room under a grape-vine draped pergola was carefully situated for a cross-axial view of Mt. Tamalpais and the mission of San Rafael.
The terraces along the staircase are lush with roses - at least 100 hybrid teas, and another hundred floribundas and David Austins - all organized from the lightest colors placed by the stairs to the red roses at the edges. (Source: http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_9138800 )
Garden: Carolyn & Kenneth's garden
A mixture of English-style perennials, with a strong component of daylilies, some of which I have hybridized.
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: 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: Roses and more
Small garden in Mississauga. It's like an english cottage garden with vegetables and roses peacefully coexisting
Garden: Place de Mira
Started it 8 years ago when moved in. My first garden, so I am practicing with different themes. I have a Japanese, Mediterranean, Wildflower, English Country. The flowers are all white and mostly perennial. The grass is left as it was, full of clover, the white flowers blend in well.
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: Chateau de Versailles Garden
Versailles is the most famous garden in the world. Yet 'garden' is scarcely a fitting designation. The scale is monumental and there is little sense of enclosure. Versailles was designed as a palatial centre of government for an absolute monarch, Louis XIV.
It is resplendent as the prime example of the French Baroque style, but it is not a friendly place. 'Overbearing' is a common description and English critics have often been disenchanted with the place. Walpole saw Versailles as 'the gardens of a great child' (H&T). Avenues project from Louis XIV's palace towards distant horizons, enfolding town, palace, garden and forest. There are imaculate parterres, great basins, an orangery, a vast collection of outdoor sculpture and some of the grandest fountains which have ever been made.
The park and garden were designed by Andre Le Nôtre between 1661 and 1700. There are magnificient features: huge parterres, an orangery, famous fountains (which operate....), rich bosquets (ornamental groves), a 1.8 km cruciform canal. The Grand Trianon, another formal garden, was built on the site of a former village. Versailles also has later additions. The Petit Trianon was given to Marie-Antoinette in 1774. She favoured the irregular style, with hills, rocks and streams. The Hameau was designed in 1785, as a stage village, for Marie-Antoinette to play with her friends in the idle years before the French Revolution. (Source: GardenVisit.com)
Garden: secret garden
my garden is like an old english garden part shade part sun with sun at different parts of the day
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: By the Trestle
English garden out front. Shade ravine garden on west side and terraced mixed perennials down to the Madawaska River on South-facing steep hill.
Garden: My Garden Oasis
whatever kind of soil i have, it is great - stuff grows like a weed - hence and english style garden. Mostly sun, but shade at the end of my yard.
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: Lindsay's English Garden
A mixture of sun and shade loving perennials with a few annuals. I'm starting to try flowering shrubs and different lilies.
Garden: Elizabeth Street Garden
I love Tropicals, vegetable gardening, english gardens and want to try toperary
Garden: My Mountain Garden - 'Oakcroft'
My garden is nearly 100 years old on a half acre block. It is located in the beautiful cool Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. It contains a lot of plants typical of the era from an English background. Unfortunately, many of these plants are now classed as weeds. I am endeavouring to eradicate these weeds and restore this old garden to a more befitting glory.
Garden: Tranquility and peace
Mostly indiginous with English style flowers mixed. Open grass and full flower beds with a number of trees. Not a big garden, middle of the range. Some areas are in full sun but most in shade.
Garden: mrs P
3500sqm of mostly clay and stoney soil.
we have many spanish plants and some english, olive, almond, cherry, walnut trees, and oliander, orange ,roses,and lots of shrubs many climbers,marigolds,gladoili,blueberries,blackcurrants, and a veg patch, with onions potatoes tomatoes,beetroot rhubarb,carrots cabbage shallots,green beans lettuce pepino,and melons,not all at the same time,but very busy in the spring/summer.
Garden: Kathleen's Paradise
My garden is English style, it has lots of roses, paeonies, irises, lillies, & campanulas in white/blue/pink combo,as well as hedging cedars & shrubs. It has some grass, brick courtyard, an arbour, garden benches, boxwood hedging,mulch pathways, even a statue! I love my garden, it's my peaceful place of retreat & calm & is each year changing & evolving.
Garden: Melissa Garden- Isle of Lesvos -Greece
Jan Ponsford, hungry for greenery in the middle of a crowed London, developed an interior garden from household plants, successfully learning about propagation techniques. Her reputation as a gardener grew and many appreciative visitors come to her to learn about plants and their upkeep. Between 1991 and 1995 Jan lived in Amsterdam, designing and developing roof gardens and terraces for private clients alongside a career as one's of the premiere internationally renewed english composer/jazz singer. On returning to England Jan became involved with allotment growing in the countryside and costal area of Sussex with italian gardener Alessandra Pagani.
Alessandra is well versed in Mediterranean gardening, and ran a gardening business for many years.
In 2000 drawed to Greece by its natural beauty and abundance of fascinating wildlife, flora and fauna Jan and Alessandra moved to Eressos -Lesvos where they have developed an organic garden, much visited by enthusiasts, tourist and complementary therapist.
Garden: Buhrdery
Part English country garden, water wise garden, vegetable garden, park, trees for Africa, wilderness, shade garden
Garden: In domo patris
It is a garden with some English sculpture items (a stone statue, and a couple of bronze), with shrubs in the border and with creepers (mainly the lilac trumpet vine) growing up on trellises.
Garden: A Blissful Bed & Breakfast's Garden
We have an English-style garden with brick paths and patio areas on a large corner residential lot with a green-belt at the back. On the south-facing side we have a kitchen garden with 5 raised beds and an assortment of multi-grafted fruit trees. On last count we have 40 roses from ramblers and climbers through to miniatures scattered over our property.
Garden: Guardian of Nature
Small vegtable garden 6x6
small alpine garden... 2 years old
English style garden and shade gaden in backyard
small flower garden along interlock walkway.
Many small projects to still complete. Less lawn more flowers :))
Garden: My garden in Coazze
My backyard garden is mainly composed by HT roses and english roses plus a variety of perennials and common shrubs. Of course, always work in progress...
Garden: Cheryl & Bryan's bit of Paradise
We started with poor soil, around our front yard. Bryan built a pond, we ordered the best soil we could find, and it took off from there. Everyone who comments, always thanks us for the "hard" work and call it the English garden. People have even stopped while driving by.
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: 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: Ringve Botanical Garden
The Garden surrounds the beautiful buildings of Ringve Museum. Nature and Culture is united in a very special manor through this combination of plants and music. The Garden was established in 1973 and covers 35 acres. It's situated beautifully with a great view of the Trondheim fjord. The garden has nearly 2000 different plants and five main sections.
Source: http://www.ringve.no/English/Botanical_Garden/
Garden: Solet's tiny chaotic patch
I inhereted this garden two years ago. The previous owner attempted to create a nature garden. In the end it became chaotic with too many weeds and a broken pond. I am trying to bring more order without losing to many plants. I would like to create an English Garden-feel with preference to pink, white and yellow flowers. One day when I have enough money I will replace the pond.
Garden: Rosa Maria: Garden with great view!!!!
My backgarden is funny, colorfull, creative and great view to the city. I love my bouganvillas, water pond with rocks of Rosarito beach, and my climber (cissus) is too tall (4 floor). And the space is to appropiate to do workshop with my family and friends!!!! I love my garden and learn every day about all my plants, succulents, water plants, climber, bambu, tropical, dessertic and my hanging basket. Sorry my english is to limit. But the garden is my passion!!!!
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: Mien toentje ('My garden' in English)
I have a front- and a backgarden. I garden eco-friendly and have lots of life in the garden. Lots of birds, butterflies, insects and other species (hedgehog) and of course, lots of flowers.
Garden: My Andalucian Patio
As far removed as possible from my long established English cottage garden, this is my haven of Andalucian peace located just 20 minuutes south of Granada, Spain. A traditional patio located in the centre of a 250 year old home. Created from scratchh by my good self and www.granadagardens.blogspot.com
Garden: Portuguese/English Garden
In 3 years we have developed this garden from a builders site, mainly trial and error and still work to do
Garden: Hillside Garden
My gardens are maninly perennial..........I have a particular garden that is of all Wild Flowers and it really is the backdrop to a beautiful front yard.
Garden: Fenton's Bed & Breakfast
Beautiful landscaped gardens, with Daffodills, tulips Hyacinth in the Spring, Peony, Iris & Lillies in the summer.
Garden: Family Friendly Decorative Garden
A mix of flowering shade perennials, seasonal bulbs, annuals and a crazy shrub or two as well as planters with herbs and annuals. Townhouse front-yard garden with a bricked edge. Our garden where our kids really get to "dig in".
Garden: Charleston: An Artist's Home and Garden
www.charleston.org.uk
The home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and a centre for activities amongst the Bloomsbury Group in England. A stunningly beautiful house and garden.
Garden: Sissinghurst Castle
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden/
The home and garden of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson
Garden: Moms OASIS
My garden oasis has been a 3 year work in progress.I'm the "plant as much as you can and pray through the winter" type gardner.So far so good.I'm already looking at fall purchases!
Garden: Snakehaven
A variety of different gardens covering collections of lilacs, perennials, shrubs and annuals for cut flowers.
Garden: Chilliwack Grows
8 fruit trees, 5 flowering cherries, an ancient japanese maple and lots of perrienials
Garden: Bev and Dave's Garden
These are our gardens, which we enjoy and the neighbours look forward to seeing every spring. So many stop by to talk, when we're working outside, and the gardens create a lovely, friendly place for a long chat on a summer afternoon.
Garden: Pape/Danforth Garden
We have east exposure, so our garden is very mixed climatically. We have some areas that are extremely sunny and dry and others that are partial and others that are full shade.
Garden: Clarahawn
Three acres. One acre of formal gardens containing herbaceous borders, stream and pond, lawns, kitchen garden, shrub borders, orchard. Two acres planted with decidious trees, paths cut through to river bank.
Garden: Rosebriar
Rosebriar is a garden made up of various rooms.
It is 2/3 of an acre in which we have tried to create a private, enviromently friendly garden.
Garden: Seabreeze Resort
seabreeze resort has a creek running through the property. 10 cottages, water front. Each cottage has its own garden. Horses in pasture. Greenery between cottages and campsite. Fruit, cedars and firs. Lots of rhodos. Tiered areas towards creek. Gardens are fragrant and colorful.
Garden: Gordon Young Garden
a mixed garden of 1.5 acres with a fruit garden, vegetables, flower beds, woodland garden. Very friendly for wildlfife
Garden: Grasses
I love ornamental grasses and pushing the zone. I have a palm, bamboo as well as fuschia overwintering in my garden every year.
Garden: s Garden.
A large rural garden, frist planted 30years ago, but 95% of Planting has been untakin the last 3 years. Extensive planting of hardwood trees currently underway across 6 acres of land behind original dwelling, which the garden is slowly expanding into.
Garden: Peaceful Waikanae
A garden was created out of a plain grass lawn a year ago. My aim was to create a place of peace and tranquility so I planted white flowering trees, white flowers and shrubs.
Garden: MY LITTLE PIECE OF PLANET EARTH
500MSQ EVERY BIT OF AVAILABLE SPACE USED AND LOTS OF FOUNTAINS AND WATER
Garden: south loirston
Half an acre flowers ,shrubs lawns trees greenhouse polytunnel containers in courtyard
bulbs soft fruit roses and hanging baskets
Garden: Frary's Fresh Flowers
Gaining experience - want to grow flowers for a living. Heathers, roses, primroses, tubs, climbers
Garden: Giardino delle fate
Still to create and start due to house and ground work. It will be full of flowers in spring and summer and rich of red leaves and berries in autumn and winter.
Garden: Casa de Orzales
I have an enclosed garden surrounded by stone walls. It consists of two parts, one is lawned with three central flower beds, a further flower bed running next to the wall and three trees, The lower garden is again lawned with a separate vegetable plot and one flower bed, There is a small herb garden and I also have several balcony plants and container plants.
Garden: Cannings garden
About 130'. Rockery, huge willow, containers, many perennials, unheated greenhouse, some soft fruit, poor apple trees, holly, herbs, lawn, patio. Faces East.
Garden: home garden
a large garden all aroun the oue and closed in by fences and hedges with mostly perennial plants, spring bulbs, bushes, roses and a few trees. There are terraces but it is flat all round the house. I try to hav some flowers in evry part of the year so we have some colours but my favourie plant is the clematis then delphiniums, phlox, and roses. It's hard work but my husband helps a loy with the hedges ,trees and grass but I like to se to the flows and bushes.
As it is half-way up a hill,the babk of the gard has a lot of shafe wgere the ortensia grow really well. I hope that thy allow pictues on here becaus it's noy asy to escibe a garden.
Garden: Vadalle dream
2 acre site incorporating woodland, meadow, potager, lawn, flower and shrub beds.
Garden: Mai Più Senza!
I have a garden divided into two zones; one sunny area and one shady area. The sunny part is what people first see while walking by and upon entering, and the shady garden is more private, behind the house with roses on a pergola and high hedges around the edge of the property.
Garden: Pilgrims
3 1/2 acres landscaped with trees, shrub and herbaceous borders, 400 roses of all types, 50 clematis, vegetable garden.
Garden: Sue's Passion
1000+ sq metres around my house.Southwards: 'tropicals'and lawn;west:lawn and roses and cedrus pedula;north-west:lawn and new perennial border and shrubbery;north:narrow'Japanese' garden with small pond and patio with raised herb beds.
Garden: Hever Castle and Gardens
Visitors can explore the magnificent gardens for all seasons which include Italian, Rose and Tudor gardens, topiary, yew maze and splashing water maze, or take a stroll around the informal areas of Sunday Walk and Anne Boleyn’s Walk. (Source: http://www.hevercastle.co.uk/ )
Garden: Doordrift
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.
Garden: Nadia's Haven
The garden has grown over the years from a few beds to what now covers most of the property. There are Lots of perrenial beds & flowers, shrubs trees, fruit trees etc throughout the property.Wildlife & birds love it, My neighbors admire it.
Garden: My Garden
I have several different species of plants. Mostly things I love that can grow in our zone. I do have a design certificate in Landscapes.
Garden: Mary's jungle!
Surrounded on two sides by tall hedges. Rather heavy soil. Lawn and flowers mainly although we do grow a few veggies too. Puppy and grandchildren 'help'. We have a playhouse and swings
Garden: My Garden
A steep, Welsh woodland garden on the side of a mountain (my lawn is higher than the roof of my house).The soil is acidic and the area damp and I have problems with rhododendrons, ferns, foxgloves and ground elder. I grow flowers, fruit and vegetables. The garden is bordered by 4 other overgrown, uncared for gardens which makes life very hard as I seem to spend most of my time cutting back other people's overgrowth!
Garden: John Ducie's Garden
Robinsonian style garden with mature trees shrubs and herbaceous plants, fruit trees, rock garden,vegetables and greenhouse
Garden: Urban oasis
A mix of fruit trees, veggie patch, flowers for butterflies and trees/shrubs for birds. Lots of space to relax and recreate in. I love this space!
Jessica
I am a young mother of twins, about to move to a new home with a large garden space (and a weird microclimate that I have yet to figure out). I am planning to plant a kitchen garden, and well as maintain many beautiful rose bushes. I am interested in getting my kids involved in gardening.
Dennis Jaffe
I maintain a wonderful garden in Marin Country. I'm also a world traveler and have visited many gardens in England, France and Italy.
Carolyn
We moved here nearly 25 years ago, but it's only been in the past few years since my kids were older that I've been as passionate about gardening. I'm haphazard and a little lazy, but things on the whole are thriving. We have 93 acres but most of the land around my various small gardens and vegetable garden are maple woods, swamp and hay fields, currently filled with wild flowers.
AmbienceGirl
Very busy lady. Grass is a pain in the a**. Gardens...can be easier, if you plant drought tolerant plants, you can ignore them when you dont have time :o) Lately would like to add a larger variety of daylillies. Anyone want to swap? My chrome yellow, red orange and yellow orange daylilly for yours? I need raspberry plants ...two or three different varieties!....i have strawberry runners V-star
Gerry King
I have been interested in gardening and horticulture since I was a child. My parents and both sets of grandparents loved to garden. My Grandmother who is 90 years old this year, still enjoys gardening in her backyard. I work for an orchid greenhouse part time, which satisfies my craving for gardening during the cold, Minus 35 degree winter nights in Manitoba. I enjoy pushing the limits of hardiness for many plants. Because my gardens are fairly large (one perennial border is over 350 feet long), I grow most of my plants from seed.
Dawna
I started my garden 12 years ago. We put in flag stone paths, took out all the grass, filled planters with perennuals, shrubs, trees. We put in a corner pond and waterfall, a seperate sitting area and a seperate firepit area for family get togethers. We added a bird bath, bird house and feeders. Our backyard faces north so it has some shaded areas closest to the house and along the back fence has full sun. Because of the neighbors facing our backyard we added trees for privacy which have really enhanced our little enchanted garden.
ruth gardiner
my name is ruth gardiner i am 65 years old i live in cape breton i have been interested in gardening forever i love my gardens it is the greatest pass time
Weslemkoon
I love my rock gardens,,I have over one acre...hosta, lilies, bee balm , coneflowers,English Ivy,,oh my gosh,,hundreds of flowers,oh dont forget sedum..Im just a gardening freak....Hoping to find brugs growers...
Elaine
Seabreeze Resort has 10 waterfront cottages and campsite. Each cottage has its own flower bed. We grow seasonal flowers, rhodos, bulbs, roses, vines, annuals, perennials. Fruit, conifers, deciduous and palm trees. The creek that runs through the property add to the plant life. A natural bog garden and pond is ideal for encouraging the frogs and toads. The big cedars have resident eagles. The tiered gardens to the creek gives an abundance of color every season. Horses in the pasture gives enough manure to keep my roses happy. The arbor adds color to the main house. The ample adjoining lawns bring the whole property together.
Cherie
I started with one bed about 2ft by 12 ft on the advice of a friend, she said start small and tend to the needs of a small bed as I had a very young baby and a young child. Being on a acre it was the best advice! I have never looked back. I have 2/3 of an acre of semi formal garden now and the rest is lawn and silver birches at the front. I moved on from one simple bed to another. I love my garden and hand feeding king parrots (even without native trees). I have now moved onto designing other peoples gardens (free - much to the disgrace of my friends). My designs, would you believe, are mainly native, because people want low maintenance and drought tolerant plants. This is my story :)
Gina Tucker
I love Tropicals,veggie gardening, would love to learn how to do toperary, Im new at this, did some canning for the first time, bought my first Hibiscus,
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!!!
Michelle Fonseca
quote: If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, ?if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, ?if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, ?rejoice, for your soul is alive. ?~ Eleonora Duse ~
English Daisy (Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/virgomerry/19757626/in/set-458295/ )
This is a meadow experiment. The soil in this corner is poor, and it just bakes in the sun. I have wonderful memories of the English Downs, so here is my homage. I have seeded poppies and larkspur; they will have to compete with what nature's put here.
These plants grow wile here and bloom in winter (which is now in the tropics)....I do not know their name in English....
My herb garden - my favourite garden, I think. I love the scents, and it is an amazing attractor of insects of all kinds. It is simply alive on a sunny day! I have many varieties of thyme ("Doone Valley" creeping thyme in foreground), "Primrose Heron" lamb's ears (coloured golden green instead of silver, and hard to find), santolina, a very old sage (Salvia officinalis), African blue basil, bronze fennel, English and Spanish lavender, and many more.
Rhus copallina in the North American Section (Source: http://www.botanic.co.il/english/news/index.htm )
