The 1,100-square-foot garden includes 55 kinds of vegetables, including peppers, spinach and arugula. The selection is a wish list put together by White House chefs.

This is a shade garden in the heart of Hot Springs Village. We moved here a few years ago and have gradually planted the surrounding land. My favorite are the hydrangeas my daughter sent me. I would love to change my hydrangeas to a bluer shade - if anyone has advice on how to do this, that would be great.

my garden

Front and back yard are all mine and slowly I am weaning my hubby from his beloved but totally useless lawn. I recently planted 4 Saskatoon bushes in the front of my house because I am sick of everyone getting to the berries before me! Today I planted two Highbush Cranberry bushes and I am really excited about watching them go through the seasons next year...yummm...cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving next year!

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

This front rose garden acts as a sort of fence framing the facade of the home.

The Harvest Inn's grounds are showered in tulips of every color combination. The flowers, vines and hills in the distance create a lovely setting.

The outdoor environment of the museum is as important to the project as the interior of the buildings. The gardens feature the Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden and terrace (35,000ft²), situated beneath a cantilevered roof, and the George and Judy Marcus Children's garden of enchantment (47,500ft²). The landscaping provides an organic link between the building and the surrounding environment on all four sides and incorporates features from the old museum. Redwood, cypress, eucalyptus, ferns and other native and non-native plants have been planted both inside and outside the museum to emphasize the sense of blending the park and museum together. There are 5.12 acres of new landscape with 344 new trees planted; 48 trees were planted inside building. The Pool of Enchantment had 69 of its historic boulders returned and seven new turtle sunning rocks were provided. (Source: Design Build Network)

Abkhazi Garden is a dynamic work of art within a discipline imposed by the site. A unity of execution is evident in the layout of buildings, paths and plant material. Forms and materials were selected to express one overruling idea, the rhythm of the natural landscape. The house, summerhouse and garden shed, modest in size and construction, complement this landscape. The intimate paths show a human scale appropriate for the private world the Abkhazis wanted to create for themselves. Some rhododendrons are over 100 years old, their gnarled trunks as attractive as their flowers. Trained mature conifers cascade down the rock faces, and carefully pruned azaleas provide living sculptures. Each season, naturalized bulbs carpet the garden in sheets of colour. Choice alpine plants are sited carefully in natural rock crevices. (Source: The Land Conservancy)

This 10-hectare site is perhaps the most ambitious Japanese garden ever constructed in North America. The estate includes a large waterfall, a cascade, a pond and seven buildings. A round stone bridge and pathways lead to a courtyard where guests can see the main residence (north and south wings) over the three-acre pond. The teahouse, which was re-assembled in Woodside after being brought from Japan, stands in a deep forest. The garden is being constructed by Shigeru Namba, a Japanese garden builder. He has already moved 3,500 tons of rock. About 81,000 cubic yards of earth were moved from the pond and redistributed to make way for hills and islands. Over 500 trees were added to the 700 existing natural trees. The estate's design is based on that of Katsura Rikyu. (Source: jgarden.org)

The garden is constructed from easily transportable and reused materials. The eight 2-by-4-foot raised beds are made of plastic milk crates connected, filled with soil and covered with thin sheets of wood taken from shipping pallets. In addition to the milk-crate beds, spinach and radishes grow in far lighter 6-inch-deep mini beds made from plastic bread crates. The garden also hosts eight pots of hydroponic tomatoes, grown using a soilless, recirculating water system. Reclaimed wood was used to build a petite greenhouse on the garden's periphery. There is a homemade bin full of worm castings, and a compost barrel sits on a set of runners so it can be spun to expedite the breakdown process. (Source: The San Francisco Chronicle)

10 by 20 foot plot in Seattle's original community garden.

The Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue is one of five adjacent thematic parks that comprise the ambitious Visitation Valley Greenway Project. In its entirety, the Greenway functions as an outdoor classroom and recreation area beautifying the landscape and uniting the diverse groups and generations of Visitacion Valley. This parkland incorporates a native plant garden, children's play garden, various fruit and street trees, public art made by school children and community members, agricultural crops, herb gardens, a Senior Pavilion, job training, and horticultural classes.

You can find me and my garden adventures at http://jellyfishbay.wordpress.com For those that want more: Growing up in the "winter, water, wonderland" that is Michigan has made me appreciate the natural world around us. I maintain a hummingbird/butterfly garden at the local library through my volunteer hours as a master gardener and a tiny, urban flower garden at home - it is mostly shade but I have a few spots that get more sun.

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)

"Our Garden" is a community and demonstration garden created by the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune newspapers and the Contra Costa Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. The goal is to educate both beginning and advanced gardeners on the best techniques for growing their own vegetables, and to help feed the hungry. Produce grown in the garden is being donated to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. (Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ourgarden/ci_12495833 )

Since we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.

This garden has been in the making since 1989 and has had to adapt to increasing shade. It is mostly a perennial garden that keeps changing all spring, summer and fall. After daffodils and tulips are done, each season is dominated by one or several showy perennials: peonies and penstimon in June, lilies and shasta daisies in July, dahlias and phlox in August, asters and chrysanthemums in September. Every season also has minor players like coral bells, astilbe, delphinim, foxglove, lady's mantle and many others. I look for a range of colors and textures My preference is for flowers that are suitable for cutting .

The Levinsons decided to buy the house, built during the '50s, from a real estate agent who had lived in it for 20 years, in 2006. Despite its flaws, the Levinsons decided to live in the house as it was for a year. That gave them enough time to get a feel for the place, to decide what changes they wanted to make and how to best make them. Copper gutters, which stand up well in a marine environment, were installed at a slight angle to collect and funnel rainwater to the huge cisterns anchored at the base of the house. The rainwater harvesting system is connected to a drip-irrigation system to water the newly landscaped grounds. (Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/REEK18L7KO.DTL )

This is another patio garden!

mix of wild tiger lilies, and other plants

Front and backyard. A work in progress that brings me great joy!

Sunflowers, early corn, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, zuchini, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, acorn squash, all in rows going east to west

A peaceful place to relax and enjoy. Perennials that flower spring, summer and fall so that there is always some colour highlighted with the vivid colours of annuals growing in pots and hanging baskets. Our garden is also enjoyed by our three adult Shih Tzu and soon to be by three puppy Shih Tzu as well as ourselves of course.

This is the place I relax instantly. It calms the nerves immediately. I can't imagine life without it.

Over 30 years old. Some of the foundation trees were removed this year. No pics yet

Vegetable: Tomatoe, potatoe, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, garlic, onion, carrot, bean, pea, zucchini, raspberry, etc. Perrenial: Bearded iris, phlox, sedum, peony, poppy, hosta, day lilly, coneflower, daisy, bee balm, holly hock, lupin, etc, etc, etc.

A little raised bed garden in the open sun. Has a little of everything growing from flowers to vegetables; annuals to perennials;common to rarities.

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

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

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.

The garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite) In the summer of 2009 we started a small "Farmer's Market" on the church parking lot. We also harvest and sell to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away. The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets. DOUBLE CLICK THE IMAGES....

Organicaly grown vegetables.

We have a variety of microclimates in our gardens. Soil is rich river loam supplemented with compost on a yearly basis. Perennial and mixed borders throughout. Vegetable and Water garden also on site.

My garden started out as the horse pasture and the rest is history. That was back in 2000 alot has grown since then.

Our oasis

A labor of love built with my family & friends over the past 25 years! Anything that grows!!

Just moved out here last fall so this is our first year.

Started it about 7 years ago and add to it every year.

Raised veggie beds in the side yard, growing in homemade compost. Front Yard has flowers and some containers

My allotment plot at Rathbeggan Lakes allotments, Co. Meath

Ornamental and fruit garden focussed on bee and bird friendly plants.

Very slopey south east facing 1 acre site. Loamy well drained neutral soil. Roughly 3-4 inches of topsoil, parent rock is shale/limestone.

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.

we are trying to grow as many edibles as our family of 5 will eat. two big veggie patches filled with strawberries, cukes, leeks brocolli, cauliflower, beans, corn,tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, salad greens, ppotaoes, peas etc

Our garden is slowly taking over the entire yard, leaving trails for the kids to run and an ever shrinking lawn.

Native Garden located on the grounds of Burnaby Wildlife Rescue. Native Plants are important as wildlife habitat. If you are lucky you will see Rufous Hummingbird, Tree frog, or even Red Painted Turtle. Tread lightly! Enjoy quietly for the sake of recovering birds. Excellent facility always active with volunteers. http://www.wildliferescue.ca/

a little bit of veggies, a little bit of fruit, with perrenials and small flowering trees

I garden on the north side of wooded hillside near Neale Woods, north of Omaha NE. I keep a few goats and chickens so have the chance to use awesome free fertilizer. I make lots of mistakes but keep learning. I love learning about plants, shrubs, trees and edibles, trying out new techniques and color combinations. I seldom use chemicals and have interesting bug, bird, amphibian, and animals visitors to my garden.

Gaïardin is situated on a 3.5 acre with includes an old apple orchard, perennials, medicinal plants, herbs, vegetables and garlic.

Vegetable garden that produces tons of Okra, squash and cucumbers.

large lawn area,topped by small area which includes the rockery.side area holds the walk in greenhouse and the rest is taken up by rhubarb site.

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

A field which is slowly becoming an organic veg garden, pond coming soon. Compost area, and flower borders and lots of nettles

Aflower,vegatable and fruit grden with a wood to the west.patially walled and fenced.child and animal friendly.nearly have something flowering all year round and a wide variety of vegetables.

It has taken twenty years to create this all natural garden. I am still working on it.

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.

a large garden, with many roses,rhododendrums, camelias,maple trees, fish pondas, paths, a rocky stream, in a private setting, with the backdrop of Lake Rotorua

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

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

Smallish (about 700 sq metres, but who's measuring?) garden. Mainly sunny but two beds shaded by walls. New garden, planted 7 months ago (in April, May 09) maily from clippings and propogations and divisions from generous friends. About 70 percent indigenous. Great birds being located between two large parks. Wooden gazebo with hanging garden... fuscias and ferns. About to acquire two garden hens. Has productive compost heap and busy wormery.

Shady Pretoria garden Chalky water ph 7. Temp. between -7 and 36 cent

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

Half an acre flowers ,shrubs lawns trees greenhouse polytunnel containers in courtyard bulbs soft fruit roses and hanging baskets

Totally organic, wild, mostly indigenous, attracting lots of wildlife.

Several garden beds in a lawn - beds are edged with black rock.The plants are mainly perennial flowers , or shrubs.There are two large spruce trees as well , and one bed is under one of the spruces with elephant's ear and cannas.

3 gardens...1 formal...2roses and shrubs 3 water garden and cottage

i have a vege garden, fruit orchard , rose garden, alot of natives trees, shrubs and various other trees and flowering plants.

L shaped garden with swimming pool focal point.

There are large old greenhouse, inside two big grapes, space for 40 tomato plants, cucumber, carrots. Outside is half of hectare field and lots of appletrees.

just in the beginning stages of development

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.

One field that is 150 feet by 150 feet to grow commercial quantity potatoes and corn and string beans for the food bank, one second smaller patch about 45 feet by 45 feet for growing an assortment of veges for myself, my friends and for homeless shelters. Additionally a large area of open green space dotted with trees, some fruit, some evergreen. It's a farm more than a garden.

Half the garden is formal, grass with planted borders. The other half is natural mediterranean oak scrub, planted with other natural species, pomegranate, almond, fig, carob, bay leaf etc.

Our garden is not large by French standards, 1800sq meters. There is a lovely cottage garden to the front of the house, to the side is our vegetable plot. We are tring to become self sufficent for most things. Not there yet though.

Beautiful

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

electic mix of vege and flowers also like the unusual likeorchids and carnivorous plants.

Our garden is actually our whole yard. We have different things in different areas.

A year old garden, an acre, a challenge! Learning to live with fertile soil (weeds grow wonderfully) and wind is hard work but results will be great someday.

Mixed garden

Live on a creek bank. Beautiful soil which makes it easy for gardening ie. digging etc. Lots of rainfull in the wet too which helps.

just growing some veggies for fun and food.

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

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.

300sq meter Garden on 1 terrace with a small garden house

Fairly traditional, well established, bit of most things.

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

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..

People walk the grounds of the Japanese Gardens in Grands Forks to escape the hustle and bustle of their daily lives. The garden was developed and completed by representatives from Awano, Japan, Grand Forks' sister city. Source: http://www.gfparks.org/japanesegardens.htm

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The UC Botanical Garden is a non-profit research garden and museum for the University of California at Berkeley, having a notably diverse plant collection including many rare and endangered plants. Established in 1890, the Garden, which is open to the public year round, has over 13,000 different kinds of plants from around the world, cultivated by region in naturalistic landscapes over its 34 acres. Source: http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is an educational and scientific institution fostering stewardship of the natural world through inspired learning, rigorous scholarship, and premier displays. With an emphasis on plants native to California, the Garden advances the knowledge and understanding of plant life and provides a rewarding experience for visitors. Source: http://www.sbbg.org/

Our plot was around 2000 square meters so we had plenty of space. The previous owners had done very little to the garden and most was looking tired and neglected.

Large areas of gravel with borders of seasonal flowers, a swimming pool and small trees

My backyard is tiny with full sun, and my front garden is full shade with a maple tree. So both have their own chalenges.

Tiny city garden with full sun in backyard and a maple tree out front

My little private hide-away that I would like to transform into a tranquil nest. My aim to create a totally balanced eco-garden. This space is my playground to grow and experiment what can be achieved in a small a small area. My garden creates daily challenges to explore and observe the course of nature and I can honoustly say that it is the place that give me the greatest pleasure.

My little private hide-away that I would like to transform into a tranquil nest. My aim to create a totally balanced eco-garden. This space is my playground to grow and experiment what can be achieved in a small a small area. My garden creates daily challenges to explore and observe the course of nature and I can honoustly say that it is the place that give me the greatest pleasure.

Starting my allotment this year (2010), so still a bare patch of land now.

A tropical garden in a semi 99ft by 18 ft on a slope with tree ferns sun house palms banana,s and succulents with lots of things to make it more interesting like metal lizards climbing the palms , with colourful glass lamps, spiders ,candles , its beautiful

in my garden, I did plant lots of flowers, some vegetables...I plan to do re-organise my garden or make it looks tidy, plant more vegetables this summer (2010), hope to get more ideas from friends here...thanks!

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I am still in the process of breaking in the soil, putting in my favourite plants in a tiny piece of the garden and populating a big long balcony with things that can survive the full sun of the Italian summer. This spring I should see my first tulips, lillies, narcissus, paeonies, irises and alliums blooming. I should also see the Daphne, Osmanthus, Magnolia Stellata, Clematis Armaandi, the various types of clematis patens and rhododendrons put in at least a little bit of a show on the balcony...Of course there is always the chance that some of these will not like the Full sun treatment on the balcony but I will find out this year. I need to describe the Vegetable and fruit area as well but I will leave that to later.

We have a mixed garden of fruit,vegtables and flowers.We are currently getting the plots ready for the years growing by manuring and digging them over.

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

The house abd garden where I live is a privatley reanted property.I ahve an 8x12 greenhouse and grow many bedding plants for both myself and for other people Ihave numerous hanging baskets and pots. The front and side of the hse get most Sunso thats where I tend to have most baskets and pots.Apart from hanging baskets my main plants are Fuschias and Clematis

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.

As the garden's title depicts, yes, I'm a rose fanatic. I have a normal-sized garden and I'm aiming to get a 100 roses in the garden ... I'm at 72. Almost there! I've also started a little veggie garden (still in experimenting stages).

Cottage garden with lots of flowers, herbs, fruit & veg. Home to kids and pets so a long way from perfect but i love it.

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!

I moved onto an un-landscaped 1800sqm section 6 years ago. Putting in gardens has been full of successes and failures but we are getiing there slowly but surely. We finally have privacy as things mature. This year we built a raised pottager which is producing fantastically!! Chicken coups next ...

Tried some Veg last year, this year I would like to try grow some pumpkins

A beautiful woodland garden developed in the 19th century and being restored over the last 15 years. The latest part of the restoration in 2010 is the development of display gardens in the one acre walled garden

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

Irelands 5 star garden centre and online garden centre. www.johnstowngardencentre.ie

Started in 2005 as a 10X10 plot, I now garden 200 square feet with my partner. In Spring 2010, we completed major structural renovations to merge the various expansion barriers, solve some drainage issues and create a cold composting wall. A wall of native plants will line the composting wall. Our plot is a combination of ornamentals, herbs and vegetables. Our space is spiritual as well as functional and features Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy as a central feature. Stone paths provide access to the entire plot.

I began collecting species rhododendrons in 2006 and am slowly adding interesting and rare ones to my garden along with suitable companion plants. Our house is on a double lot within Seattle city limits so I've been fortunate to have a lot of space to work with. I'm also interested in new rose varieties with good disease resistance. I work at a local nursery and am always eager to get new varieties that are out on the market. There is nothing more satisfying than working in the dirt and creating beautiful habitats.

We are trying to grow veg in a very wet climate! Most of the pumpkin/squash have rotted! Shared veg area with neighbour and we hope to plant wildflowers around the basic lawns.

mixed mostly shrubs roses perenials 550 feet above sea level very exposed to elements shallow soil over shale good drainage sunny position the garden is 5 years old and everything is growing very well still developeing made two new mixed beds this year the holly trees are growing very well with a great crop of berrys this year i will show some photos later

I love Orchids and have about 30 different ones. A few different species too. I volunteer at the Royal Botanical Gardens in there orchid greenhouse. There is about 1500 plants in the collection. I love going there about 2 times a week and looking after things. There is a Thursday group that consists of about 10 people that meet about 9:30 am and we stay to about noon. We always stop for "tea" about 11am. On Saturdays I head up a group that needs more volunteers. The Orchid Society of RBG meets once a month , usually the 3rd Sunday of the month in the central building.