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The core of Derek Fell's book "Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure" is an information bank of garden landscape photos, but the introduction is its foundation.

Eastern redbud trees and cultivars enrich landscape gardens with varieties of form, silhouettes and unusual seasonal color. Site selection is essential for good display.

April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.

Disease and pest damages, mechanical injuries, and moisture and heat stresses initially appear trivial. Inspection keeps minor maintenance from becoming renovation.

Lavender herb plants are an aromatic and useful choice for cottage gardens, drought tolerant landscapes and other garden situations.

Michaelmas daisies shout that autumn has arrived. The garden landscape fills with color and autumn landscaping design ideas are abundant.

Container vegetable gardening is growing in popularity for those who have relatively small outside spaces or large areas of shade, or little time.

Old-fashioned cottage gardens can be a treasured addition to a home and will deliver charms and delights season after season, with some attention to details.

Athens Select™ Plants and Southern Living™ Plant Collections team up in 2009 to bring flowering plants to gardeners in warm and humid southern landscapes.

Goatsbeard is a fantastic native perennial that creates a bold display in a woodland garden or shade border.

Landscape garden hedges can be formal or informal. They provide shelter, privacy and barriers. They should complement landscape designs for which they are planned.

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.

Combine several flowering plants with different colors and leaf textures into a single large container to create a stunning visual effect-like an impressionist painting.

For a peaceful garden retreat that relieves stress and increases property values, a creative garden plan incorporates good tree choices, patio design and more.

Organic gardeners can shop for garden and landscape software that allows them to plan an entire garden design at once, avoiding piecemeal mistakes.

Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.

Modern low-maintenance plants surrounding walkway and patio edges in memorial and meditation garden designs convey intimacy. Choosing suitable garden plants is crucial.

Mulching practices that improve and support shrub and tree health are essential for DIY landscape gardeners who want to create good-looking but money-wise projects.

There are many homeowners who are unfamiliar with plants and trees, but take great pride in their homes all over the United States.

Rain Gardens lower landscape maintenance time and costs while filtering and infiltrating water to improve water quality.

Waterfront gardeners can design a thriving oceanfront landscape. Choose salt tolerant plants to create a successful seaside garden.

The great thing about using crape myrtle in your Texas Landscape is the variety of color and sizes available. Plants are heat tolerant and long blooming.

The first step to creating flower gardens can be as simple as grabbing pencil and paper. The tip is to research and plan carefully now to ensure later rewards.

Weeds in garden landscapes are plants growing where they do not belong. Here are tips for effective removal and control strategies that can minimize maintenance.

Trees and shrubs that produce colorful berries bring winter beauty to landscape gardens. They may also provide winter shelter as well as food for fruit-eating birds.

An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.

Knowledgeable plant selection leads to dynamic garden landscape designs. One key decision factor is knowledge of site environment.

Landscape gardens with coordinated color present unified appearances and pleasing public images. Using color in the garden landscape calls for basic guiding principles.

Five historic landscapes symbolize five extraordinary couples. Historic landscapes and landscape gardens chronicle the fashions and trends of the times that shaped them.

Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems. Plant them in containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. Photos included.

Wave® petunias provide inexpensive and eye-catching design solutions. Develop and complete a project in one weekend using these planning tips. Photos provided.

Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. Here is a survey of selected 17th to18th century landscape styles.

Winter/spring-blooming Asian witchhazels - Hamamelis xintermedia, H. japonica and H. mollis - exhibit potential in garden landscapes as focal points and in shrub borders.

Sites with dry shade are a challenge, but careful plant selection can make all the difference. To ensure success, select ground covers that thrive in tough conditions.

Use Asian principles of Feng Shui to design garden landscapes. Color combinations may consist of harmonies or contrast for a beautiful flower bed.

The 2009 Southern Living™ Plant Collection features three dwarf deer-resistant Loropetalum cultivars for low-maintenance southern landscape gardens.

You don't have to be a student to enjoy history, art and sports at Duke University. Spend a day exploring this beautiful campus and see why Blue Devils pride runs deep.

A review of "An Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden" by Derek Fell, over 800 photographs of landscape elements from A to W.

Although most gardeners are ready for a break as winter approaches, the garden does not have to be lackluster during the winter months. Simple ideas can add interest.

Modern methods are now available to help recreate historic gardens. Whether the garden is from Ancient Rome or post Civil War, we have tools to help us rebuild them.

Pachysandra, also known as Japanese spurge, is a common and prolific herbaceous ground cover that is easily propagated and also makes excellent living mulch.

Large ornamental plants create the backdrop for garden landscapes and set off other plants and bulbs. Learn how to grow and care for flowering and garden shrubs.

Visitors may see this authentic Japanese landscaped garden and indulge in tea ceremonies at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, CA, on short road trips south of San Francisco.

When most people think of dogs and gardens, they think of their dog digging up the bulbs they have so carefully planted moments before. It doesn't have to be that way.

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

Many internet sites offer garden landscape photographs for inspiration and design ideas. Here is a selection of them reviewed on cost, user-friendliness and practicality.

Whether landscaping a hillside or replacing grass on a steep slope in your front yard, drought tolerant shrubs and perennials make reducing landscape maintenance easy.

Trees and shrubs are easy to plant if you follow a few simple rules: Plan first, buy from a reputable dealer, and dig the hole properly.

The Getty Museums in Los Angeles are an important attraction for art, architecture, and garden aficionados.

Avoid tree death in garden and urban landscapes by using appropriate planting and cultural techniques, good sense and attention to detail, especially during construction.