An organic kitchen garden in Healdsburg, California, nourishes body, soul and the local community
Flourishing gardens begin at the roots. Here are the ground rules for preparing your soil.
Just a potato 24. Expert advice on planning and designing an outdoor cooking space.
While your garden lay asleep for the winter, take a step back and spend some time on planning you garden. Landscape designers in Los Angeles, Connecticut, and Chicago share helpful insights on what you can do now to enjoy your garden this summer.
A free online garden planner can help you plan the layout of your garden, from what you want to grow, to where each plant goes. Plans like these help you stay organized while your garden thrives and is a great tool to help you think ahead. At 3 feet wide and 6 feet long, this garden bed design has enough space for tomatoes and other sprawling plants, but it's still narrow enough for you to reach the center from either side. The cap railings add a hint of complexity, but they add a more finished look to the garden bed, and give you something to rest on and place your tools. Since the Garden Visualiser is a 3D design tool, it can take a little bit of practice before getting the hang of it but once you do you'll be flying around your landscape project in no time. Alternatively you could try using some of our stock camera angle views.
If you enjoy the company of houseplants, consider cultivating a window garden, which is ideal for showing off plants in the winter. Creating a window garden is easy-you need only to extend the existing sill, and then mount, on the window frame, glass shelves, brackets (if you want them), and lengths of wire (for training vines). In my window garden, I paint horticultural portraits to emphasize the seasons. In this slide show, I'll show you the many different window gardens I've created in my house.
Itubedownloader 6 3 6 download free. Award-winning international garden designer Arne Maynard shares six tips for getting a kitchen garden started.
Providing interest and life to an otherwise dull visual space, espaliers can work in almost any garden type: big and small, formal and informal, grand and modest. In this article, Nick McCullough presents a list of recommended fruit-bearing and ornamental trees that work great as espaliers, tips and tricks for training them, and photographs that display their versatility.
Kevin Lee Jacobs shares how he transformed his backyard from a parking lot to a spectacular rose garden, using a mix of cuttings, new plants, and of course, blood, sweat, and tears.
In a series of guest posts, San Francisco's Academy of Art University will lend its landscape architecture knowledge to Garden Design. Rhinoceros 5 0 2 download free. Its second post provides tips on how to build an urban garden.
Fresh combinations for container plantings from Seattle landscape designers Glenn Withey and Charles Price.
The basic tools that every gardener-beginner or advanced-needs in their shed.
Ten design tips for creating the backyard shed of your dreams
Given enough patience and back strength, anyone can install a basic garden path, says landscape designer Michael Donnellan of Summerhill Landscapes in Sag Harbor, N.Y. Learn more about walkway design on LandscapingNetwork.com.
The artful pruning known as topiary has captured imaginations for centuries
Dutch garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet knows-and shows-how to mix it up
How to grow rhododendrons in your garden. And remember, a rhododendron needs three things above all else: drainage, drainage, and drainage.
Our photo glossary of 14 types of lettuce (and other spring greens), including romaine, mache, and bibb.
Long overlooked, gravel is finally being recognized for its enduring beauty.
A bountiful, four-season Oehme, van Sweden garden on Long Island breathes new life into an 18th-century farmstead
In Belgium, proof that a restrained palette of just eight plants can have exuberant results
Two sloping Short Hills, New Jersey, acres play stage to a graduation party
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Using Moss as a Design Element: Moss creeps westward, from traditional-style Japanese gardens into our own backyards
