Articles related to "Landscaped Gardens"

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.

Yellow-foliage evergreen plants are attention-getters and liven up winter landscape gardens. They mimic sunshine and echo PANTONE® 2009 Color of the Year 14-0848 "Mimosa"

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.

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.

A Japanese-style garden may be appropriate for small spaces. Consider how water, rocks and gravel, and plants influence and contribute to a Japanese-inspired landscape.

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

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

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.

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

Water is precious in the West Texas desert. Growing native plants not only offers beauty, but provides water conservation because the plants are adapted to conditions.

With careful selection and attention to control, bamboo can be grown in pots, as a landscape accent or as a privacy screen.

A gardener is doing a favor to the environment when he grows wildflowers in the Texas landscape. Wildflowers require little care and bloom in the spring.

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.

Twentieth century New England garden landscapes show diversity that demonstrates society's expanding financial and social bases. Here are four such historic designs.

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.

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

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.

Middleton Place is a survivor. The Low Country plantation made it through the American Revolution, the Civil War, a few natural disasters and changing family fortunes.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), Virginia Native Plant Society 2009 Wildflower of the Year, is an early blooming native plant at home in bog and water gardens.

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

Turn your front yard into an edible landscape instead of a nonproductive grass plot. It's good for the environment and good for you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Create a pond or water feature that conserves water. Landscape with drought-tolerant plants, choose a pondless waterfall, or plant a rain garden or greywater wetland.

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.

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

Landscape and plant society memberships or donations to these fine groups make excellent gifts for landscape gardeners.

The House of the Seven Gables Historic Neighborhood and complimentary Colonial Revival Gardens result from foresight and actions of antiquarians Emmerton and Chandler.

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

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

This smart guide to home landscaping explains how to landscape a yard and design a garden in simple steps.

Meaningful, useful and out-of-the-ordinary holiday gifts for gardeners are hard to find. Here are four categories that fit the bill for landscape gardener holiday gifts.

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

Kawarra Native Plant Garden, Kalorama in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia is a beautiful hideaway in which to experience Australian Native Plants.

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 Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA, dedicated in 1929, adapted the idea of a New England garden by using a relic trolley bridge. Well worth the visit.

Memorial Day is observed in the U.S.A. on the last Monday of May. Corn Poppies enliven summer gardens while symbolizing remembrance. These articles offer design ideas.

The Morikami Gardens in Del Ray Beach, FL are a living textbook They demonstrate periods of Japanese garden history and design from the 8th to the 20th century.

What's all the fuss about native plants? Simple. We need them to feed and shelter birds, butterflies and all life, from bacteria to mammals. Non-natives usually won't do.

Rain chains or Kusari Doi are an alternative to downspouts. These metal chains funnel water to a pond, barrel, or water garden below and act as garden water art.

The Turner House (House of the Seven Gables - Salem, MA), made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne, overlooks an early 20th Century Colonial Revival Garden

Rugosa roses are easy to grow plants perfect for tough landscapes. Gardeners who like naturalized gardens will find wild shrub roses low maintenance plants.

Learn the many ways to create interest in the garden landscape even during the winter months. Use some of these techniques for year round beauty.

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.