Articles related to "Residential Landscapes"
Holiday Gifts: Landscape Gardeners
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.
• gifts for the gardener • holiday gifts for gardeners • residential landscapes garden gifts • gardening gift ideas • christmas gardening gift ideas
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.
• gifts for the gardener • holiday gifts for gardeners • residential landscapes garden gifts • gardening gift ideas • christmas gardening gift ideas
Best Gifts for Landscape Gardeners
Landscape and plant society memberships or donations to these fine groups make excellent gifts for landscape gardeners.
• gifts for the gardener • holiday gifts for gardeners • residential landscapes • garden gifts • gardening gift ideas
Landscape and plant society memberships or donations to these fine groups make excellent gifts for landscape gardeners.
• gifts for the gardener • holiday gifts for gardeners • residential landscapes • garden gifts • gardening gift ideas
Crabapple Trees in the Landscape
Eighteen kinds of crabapples form the backdrop to a Memorial Garden in a western MA orchard. Autumn crabapple display begins with warm sunny days and cold nights.
• ornamental crabapple trees • residential landscapes • flowering residential landscapes • crabapple trees • crabapple trees residential landscapes
Eighteen kinds of crabapples form the backdrop to a Memorial Garden in a western MA orchard. Autumn crabapple display begins with warm sunny days and cold nights.
• ornamental crabapple trees • residential landscapes • flowering residential landscapes • crabapple trees • crabapple trees residential landscapes
Crabapples and Autumn Qualities
Crabapple trees stand out with autumn characteristics that make them top-notch landscape trees. Plantings of intelligent choices do well with good cultural practices.
• ornamental crabapple trees • residential landscapes • flowering residential landscapes • crabapple trees • crabapple trees residential landscapes
Crabapple trees stand out with autumn characteristics that make them top-notch landscape trees. Plantings of intelligent choices do well with good cultural practices.
• ornamental crabapple trees • residential landscapes • flowering residential landscapes • crabapple trees • crabapple trees residential landscapes
Garden Design Sites to Savor
Thinking of a new bed for the New Milennium? Here are Editor Susan's netpicks on garden design, from sites that guide you through the basics of balance and symmetry, through sites where you can choose specific bed plans.
• garden design • residential landscaping • garden plan • bed design • color
Thinking of a new bed for the New Milennium? Here are Editor Susan's netpicks on garden design, from sites that guide you through the basics of balance and symmetry, through sites where you can choose specific bed plans.
• garden design • residential landscaping • garden plan • bed design • color
Landscape Maintenance Mistakes
Landscape maintenance mistakes abound in both residential and public landscapes. What are some of these landscape maintenance errors and how do they happen? Photographs.
• landscape errors • landscape maintenance • landscape maintenance errors • landscape maintenance mistakes • landscape photos
Landscape maintenance mistakes abound in both residential and public landscapes. What are some of these landscape maintenance errors and how do they happen? Photographs.
• landscape errors • landscape maintenance • landscape maintenance errors • landscape maintenance mistakes • landscape photos
Residential Landscaping Pictures
Landscape photos may be worth a thousand words. They can inspire illusions of mood and atmosphere, or adaptable design ideas. Photos may make good landscape design tools.
• landscaping photographs • landscape ideas • landscape photos • landscape pictures • landscaping ideas
Landscape photos may be worth a thousand words. They can inspire illusions of mood and atmosphere, or adaptable design ideas. Photos may make good landscape design tools.
• landscaping photographs • landscape ideas • landscape photos • landscape pictures • landscaping ideas
Hamamelis – Best Landscape Sites
Choosing optimal site and microclimate for Hamamelis (witch hazel) planting locations facilitates growth and generates best spring and autumn performance.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Choosing optimal site and microclimate for Hamamelis (witch hazel) planting locations facilitates growth and generates best spring and autumn performance.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Hamamelis – Landscape Aristocrats
Hamamelis (witch hazel) species and varieties bring interesting forms, flower and leaf gold to temperate landscapes when gardeners least expect color and fragrance.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • hamamelis virginiana • hamamelis mollis
Hamamelis (witch hazel) species and varieties bring interesting forms, flower and leaf gold to temperate landscapes when gardeners least expect color and fragrance.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • hamamelis virginiana • hamamelis mollis
Hamamelis – Landscape Design Uses
Multiple characteristics allow witch hazels to fill garden niches and extend landscape interest to four seasons. Effective use depends upon siting and use in a landscape.
• landscape design uses of hamamelis • landscape design uses of witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Multiple characteristics allow witch hazels to fill garden niches and extend landscape interest to four seasons. Effective use depends upon siting and use in a landscape.
• landscape design uses of hamamelis • landscape design uses of witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Ten Tips for Greening your Garden
A lawn is certainly green - with enough water - but it's anything but ecologically sound! Here are ten tips from a landscape architect on truly greening your yard.
• ten tips for greening your garden • how to make your yard ecologically sound • lawn is not ecologically sound • no lawns and water-wise gardening • make their green spaces environmentally friendly
A lawn is certainly green - with enough water - but it's anything but ecologically sound! Here are ten tips from a landscape architect on truly greening your yard.
• ten tips for greening your garden • how to make your yard ecologically sound • lawn is not ecologically sound • no lawns and water-wise gardening • make their green spaces environmentally friendly
A Homeowner's First Landscape
Here and in future articles, we learn how to landscape, step-by-step, a relatively new house in Charlottesville, VA (plant hardiness zone 7).
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Here and in future articles, we learn how to landscape, step-by-step, a relatively new house in Charlottesville, VA (plant hardiness zone 7).
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Colonial Holiday Landscapes
Holiday landscapes and decorations in the Colonial Williamsburg Christmas Look highlight this first Web Site of the Month topic for Landscaping at Suite101.
• colonial holiday decorations • colonial williamsburg christmas look • colonial williamsburg • della robbia wreathes • how to make colonial williamsburg holiday decorati
Holiday landscapes and decorations in the Colonial Williamsburg Christmas Look highlight this first Web Site of the Month topic for Landscaping at Suite101.
• colonial holiday decorations • colonial williamsburg christmas look • colonial williamsburg • della robbia wreathes • how to make colonial williamsburg holiday decorati
Color in Autumn Garden Landscapes
Michaelmas daisies shout that autumn has arrived. The garden landscape fills with color and autumn landscaping design ideas are abundant.
• michaelmas daisies • autumn landscapes • autumn landscaping • autumn projects • autumn color
Michaelmas daisies shout that autumn has arrived. The garden landscape fills with color and autumn landscaping design ideas are abundant.
• michaelmas daisies • autumn landscapes • autumn landscaping • autumn projects • autumn color
Fences Build Good Neighbors - Part 1
A short history of fences and how popular philosophy and sentiment influenced use in residential landscaping in the United States are discussed. Basic fence types and materials to investigate are suggested for homeowners.
• garden • naturalistic landscaping • landscapes • residential landscape history • fence types
A short history of fences and how popular philosophy and sentiment influenced use in residential landscaping in the United States are discussed. Basic fence types and materials to investigate are suggested for homeowners.
• garden • naturalistic landscaping • landscapes • residential landscape history • fence types
Installing Landscape Fabric
Landscape fabric yields excellent results when we carefully analyze and then prepare project sites. Checklists are important and useful before planting and/or mulching.
• landscape fabric • how to install landscape fabric • erosion control • weed control fabric • commercial landscape fabric
Landscape fabric yields excellent results when we carefully analyze and then prepare project sites. Checklists are important and useful before planting and/or mulching.
• landscape fabric • how to install landscape fabric • erosion control • weed control fabric • commercial landscape fabric
Landscapes of Poppies
Sweeping landscape plantings of the corn (Flanders's Field poppy) and its cousins are a knockout. These plants are true annuals though they may live for several seasons.
• poppy garden • papaver rhoeas • papaver nudicaule • papaver somniferum • papaver orientale
Sweeping landscape plantings of the corn (Flanders's Field poppy) and its cousins are a knockout. These plants are true annuals though they may live for several seasons.
• poppy garden • papaver rhoeas • papaver nudicaule • papaver somniferum • papaver orientale
Poppies and Landscapes of War
Flanders field poppies (Papaver rhoeas) brighten up European landscapes in early summer. Here in the U.S., they symbolize Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day.
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Flanders field poppies (Papaver rhoeas) brighten up European landscapes in early summer. Here in the U.S., they symbolize Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day.
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Tree Death in the Landscape
Avoid tree death in garden and urban landscapes by using appropriate planting and cultural techniques, good sense and attention to detail, especially during construction.
• tree death • garden landscapes • urban landscapes • tree culture • tree planting
Avoid tree death in garden and urban landscapes by using appropriate planting and cultural techniques, good sense and attention to detail, especially during construction.
• tree death • garden landscapes • urban landscapes • tree culture • tree planting
A First Landscape: 2
The quickest way to bring flowers and color into the residential landscape is by planting containers full of bright and interesting plants.
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs landscaping plans • residential landscaping • landscaping tips
The quickest way to bring flowers and color into the residential landscape is by planting containers full of bright and interesting plants.
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs landscaping plans • residential landscaping • landscaping tips
Annual Poppies as Landscape Focus
Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.
• celia thaxter garden • an island garden • glenlyon house gardens • perthshire hill country • old sturbridge village
Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.
• celia thaxter garden • an island garden • glenlyon house gardens • perthshire hill country • old sturbridge village
Chateau Country Landscapes
The Brandywine Valley (PA and DE) beckons to those interested in garden history. Visit the four Du Pont country estates and gardens of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• hagley museum • winterthur • an american country garden • longwood gardens • nemours mansion and gardens
The Brandywine Valley (PA and DE) beckons to those interested in garden history. Visit the four Du Pont country estates and gardens of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• hagley museum • winterthur • an american country garden • longwood gardens • nemours mansion and gardens
Chinese Wilson's Memorial Garden
The Wilson Memorial Garden in Chipping Campden celebrates the work of "Chinese" Wilson who introduced over 1,000 garden-worthy species from China to western horticulture
• wilson memorial garden • wilson • e. h. • wilson "china" • plant hunter in china
The Wilson Memorial Garden in Chipping Campden celebrates the work of "Chinese" Wilson who introduced over 1,000 garden-worthy species from China to western horticulture
• wilson memorial garden • wilson • e. h. • wilson "china" • plant hunter in china
Common Landscape Design Problems
An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.
• landscape design process • garden landscape design • landscape garden • outline to coordinate landscaping • checklist for coordinating the residential landsca
An outline and checklist to avoid common problems in the landscape design process. Using this list avoids frustrating and often costly problems.
• landscape design process • garden landscape design • landscape garden • outline to coordinate landscaping • checklist for coordinating the residential landsca
E. Wilson – Intrepid Plant Hunter
"Chinese" Wilson's first trip to China for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum (MA) began in January 100 years ago. His goal? Introduce Asian plants to western landscapes.
• wilson memorial garden • wilson • e. h. • wilson "chinese" • plant hunter in china
"Chinese" Wilson's first trip to China for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum (MA) began in January 100 years ago. His goal? Introduce Asian plants to western landscapes.
• wilson memorial garden • wilson • e. h. • wilson "chinese" • plant hunter in china
Flowering Crabapples - A Review
Flowering Crabapples: "The Genus Malus" by Rev. John L. Fiala is an essential reference for those wanting to know about flowering crabapple trees in built landscapes.
• genus malus • modern flowering crabapples • ornamental flowering crabapple trees • crabapple tree form • companion plants to crabapple trees
Flowering Crabapples: "The Genus Malus" by Rev. John L. Fiala is an essential reference for those wanting to know about flowering crabapple trees in built landscapes.
• genus malus • modern flowering crabapples • ornamental flowering crabapple trees • crabapple tree form • companion plants to crabapple trees
Hamamelis – Autumn Landscape Gold
Hamamelis virginiana, a North American native, brings interesting golden flowers and leaf color to the autumn landscape. It merits more use in planned landscapes.
• arboretum kalmthout • hamamelis virginiana • virginia witch hazel • common witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis
Hamamelis virginiana, a North American native, brings interesting golden flowers and leaf color to the autumn landscape. It merits more use in planned landscapes.
• arboretum kalmthout • hamamelis virginiana • virginia witch hazel • common witch hazel • hamamelis vernalis
Hamamelis – Spring Landscape Gold
Hamamelis vernalis, a North American native, is a two-season landscape performer with fragrant yellow spring blooms and deep yellow autumn leaves.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • h. vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Hamamelis vernalis, a North American native, is a two-season landscape performer with fragrant yellow spring blooms and deep yellow autumn leaves.
• hamamelis • witch hazel • h. vernalis • vernal witch hazel • spring witch hazel
Integrate Poppies in the Landscape
Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.
• reblooming daylilies • nigella damascene • hesperis matronalis • naturalizing daffodils • buddleia
Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.
• reblooming daylilies • nigella damascene • hesperis matronalis • naturalizing daffodils • buddleia
International Garden Photographs
April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.
• garden travel photographs • landscape ideas • residential gardens • garden landscapes • garden history
April: Landscaping at Suite101 "Link of the Month." Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.
• garden travel photographs • landscape ideas • residential gardens • garden landscapes • garden history
Landscape Design, Tips and Terms
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.
• garden landscape photographs • landscape vocabulary • landscape ideas • residential gardens • garden design
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.
• garden landscape photographs • landscape vocabulary • landscape ideas • residential gardens • garden design
Landscape Fabric for Projects
Landscape fabric (geotextiles) for weed and erosion control may make landscape maintenance easier. Using landscape fabric properly with projects is vital for success.
• landscape fabric • weed control fabric • use for landscape fabric • landscape maintenance • commercial landscape fabric
Landscape fabric (geotextiles) for weed and erosion control may make landscape maintenance easier. Using landscape fabric properly with projects is vital for success.
• landscape fabric • weed control fabric • use for landscape fabric • landscape maintenance • commercial landscape fabric
Landscapes and Hummingbirds
Flower boxes enhance home landscapes and say welcome to visitors. Through careful planning and planting, they can also attract hummingbirds. What do hummingbirds like?
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Flower boxes enhance home landscapes and say welcome to visitors. Through careful planning and planting, they can also attract hummingbirds. What do hummingbirds like?
• landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans • residential landscaping
Memorial Day - 2007
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.
• papaver rhoeas • corn poppy • flanders poppy • "shirley poppies • growing and using poppies in garden landscapesmemo
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.
• papaver rhoeas • corn poppy • flanders poppy • "shirley poppies • growing and using poppies in garden landscapesmemo
Poppies in Residential Gardens
Annual poppies bring unity to wildflower meadows or a natural garden as well as create a breath-taking display. Seeds of annual poppies are easy to find and buy.
• wildflowers • create a wildflower meadow • tips on growing poppies • growing poppies • poppy flower
Annual poppies bring unity to wildflower meadows or a natural garden as well as create a breath-taking display. Seeds of annual poppies are easy to find and buy.
• wildflowers • create a wildflower meadow • tips on growing poppies • growing poppies • poppy flower
The Landscape Design Book Shelf
Here are some of my favorite basic books about landscape and garden design that have prominent places on my bookshelf. I reach for them first.
• allan m. armitage • michael a. dirr • joseph hudak • joel m. lerner • tracy disabato-aust
Here are some of my favorite basic books about landscape and garden design that have prominent places on my bookshelf. I reach for them first.
• allan m. armitage • michael a. dirr • joseph hudak • joel m. lerner • tracy disabato-aust
Trees: The Gift of Love - III
Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.
• landscaping@suite101 • landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans
Trees can supply a merger of love, good wishes and functional design in a home landscape. Here are some examples of what I've planted.
• landscaping@suite101 • landscaping • landscaping ideas • landscaping designs • landscaping plans
Using Landscape Fabric
Landscape fabrics work for specific projects. Some plant groups thrive and are easier to maintain than other groups when used with these erosion and weed control fabrics.
• landscape fabric • erosion control fabric • weed control fabric • use for landscape fabric • install landscape fabric
Landscape fabrics work for specific projects. Some plant groups thrive and are easier to maintain than other groups when used with these erosion and weed control fabrics.
• landscape fabric • erosion control fabric • weed control fabric • use for landscape fabric • install landscape fabric