Articles related to "Garden Style"

A garden style can lend a bright, cheery, and relaxed atmosphere to a room. Best of all, it's one of the easiest and most inexpensive decorating themes around.

Bringing color and individuality to your garden doesn't have to involve a horde of laborers and a big price tag.

Here is a garden travel guide for late summer. These ten historic garden landscape articles can help to plan a day outing 0r a lengthy trip or act as a virtual excursion.

Design features popular in medieval gardens can add interest and structure to modern gardens.

What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!

The design of formal French gardens is, above all, to impress; many of the great gardens of France, most notably Versailles, follow this particular garden style.

It's possible to bring a little Sissinghurst style into any garden by following Vita Sackville-West's and Harold Nicolson's love of profusion and informality.

Hollister House Gardens (Washington, CT) demonstrate how garden designs furnished with plants matched to regional- and micro-climates allow garden landscapes to thrive.

Even rose bushes and traditional long-stemmed flowers can find a place in everything from formal to cottage gardens.

The Museum of Garden History, St Mary-at-Lambeth Church - London, reopened in November 2008 with a new name, The Garden Museum, and modernized interior exhibit spaces.

Many perennial flowers should be staked. Learn the best techniques and methods to use in your flower garden and when and why to stake your flowers.

The cottage garden is experiencing a revival, but this time around, the planting beds are more defined. With mixed beds, useful plants are as important as the flowers.

The potager garden is more commonly known as a kitchen garden in the United States. Taking it step by step, anyone can create one on his own plot of land.

Thomas Jefferson's winding walk flower garden at Monticello, the home and garden he designed in Virginia, demonstrate the transition between gardening styles.

Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens is a treasure trove of information for gardeners wanting to design landscapes with native flowering plants and ferns.

Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. Here is a survey of selected 19th century landscape styles.

The Japanese karesansui-style contemplative viewing garden at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, MA combines Japanese, New England and MFA elements and traditions.

By planting less appealing landscape materials and using creative deer-startling effects, gardeners are more likely to thwart this common beast.

How to plan a sweet springtime girls' Easter tea party; event ideas in the style of an English afternoon tea. Recipes, menus, decorations, fun activities and resources.

How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.

Successful flower gardeners use both art and science to achieve their flower garden design goals, no matter what their garden style. You can, too.

Are you growing these lovely old time nostalgic flowers? Many terrific old roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and flowering vines have stood the test of time!

Keep a garden journal as a garden record, reference and resource full of factual information but pack it full of personal garden design ideas and inspiration, too.

Sudeley Castle gardens in the English Cotswolds are over 500 years old, but today they look better than ever. Find out why.

Creating a dry streambed is an attractive, easy and efficient way to control erosion on slopes or hillsides.

Carolina spicebush or sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) and its cultivars are large, hardy, shade-loving shrubs at home in hedges, mixed shrub beds and natural gardens.

Choose the correct potting soil for indoor and outdoor container gardens. Soilless mixes contain added ingredients to improve plant health and garden beauty.

Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.

The aloe vera plant is not only an elegant ornamental plant; its succulent green leaves are a source of Aloe Vera gel which has natural first aid and cosmetic properties.

Plants in container gardens need fertilizers to thrive while growing. Fertilizers that contain nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are good for growing healthy plants.

Create a victory garden in containers and have homegrown food. Learn about growing a fruit and vegetable garden in small spaces.

The following highlighted garden may inspire you to create a sunken garden like the famous Butchart Garden in British Columbia - with a tropical landscape twist.

The Brabazon family (Earls of Meath) has continuously owned Killruddery Estate (Bray, County Wicklow) since 1618. Killruddery contains Ireland's oldest garden features.

Ireland's Killruddery Gardens retain original 17th- and 18th- century garden features. Early 19th century maintenance was ongoing; owners purchased cast-iron statues.

The Royal Horticultural Society offers gardeners of all skill levels a collection of information and advice in this practical guide to garden design.

Small Space Gardening by Melinda Myers explores the challenges of creating a garden using less space. Read a book review outlining this valuable garden reference.

When planning your garden, choose plants that flatter the style of your home and attract complements from birds, butterflies, and neighbors.

The Dumbcane plant is a tried and tested houseplant. A tropical plant with large variegated leaves, Dieffenbachia is easy to grow and provides elegant indoor foliage.

Visitors grasp the distinct quality of the Beacon Hill area during walking tours. Stable populations, historic architecture and urban horticulture add up to a community.

Residents of Beacon Hill's North Slope (Boston, MA) and civic and government groups work to transform derelict spaces and passageways into neighborhood garden spaces.

For maintenance free gardening, especially on patios and suburban gardens, dwarf conifers are the ideal choice. Dwarf conifers come in many colors and sizes.

Ireland's Killruddery Gardens retain original 17th- 18th- and 19th - century garden features. Renovations, begun about 1840 and shaped by popular tastes, persist.

Use these plant spacing tips and tricks to plan and plant your flower garden using just the right number of plants. (Part 2)

Planting in patterns such as rows, circles, knots, or symmetrical blocks is a traditional flower garden style. Tips on spacing a mass planting with bedding plants.

Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t

When container gardening remember plant spacing and maintenance, such as regular watering and deadheading flowers, are necessary for a healthy potted garden.

Review of an early American cookbook illustrates which herbs and spices were popular in the post-Colonial New England kitchen.

Butterfly gardens are easy to grow and attract beneficial insects. Understanding these pollinators will help when creating a flower garden for butterflies.

Trees provide basic services critical to human life. Forest managers balance these with other human lifestyle requirements.

While visiting botanical gardens in Massachusetts, see Garden In The Woods. It is a living museum with walking trails and native plants.