Articles related to "Romantic Gardens"



A Rose Garden for Romance
A romantic rose garden - the kind we see in films and read about in novels - somehow just isn't one of the recipes you find in garden design books. So I've conconcted my own!
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Cottage Garden Design
The first in a series to help you achieve the kind of cottage garden you've been dreaming of. In this series, I share some of my professional garden design concepts, beginning with creating a sense of "enclosure".
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Goethe and Gardens
Like many romantics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) preferred untamed nature over gardens.
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Rambling Roses for the Romantic Garden
Rambling roses are best in care-free romantic gardens. Like children, they tumble over walls, scramble through fences and climb into trees - happiest when left alone.
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Real Gardens
With the Chelsea Flower Show now behind us, we explore the meaning of real romantic gardens. Gardens that allow wildlife and people to re-connect with nature and soothe the spirit.
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Using Garden Ruins and Follies in the Landscape
A garden within a ruined wall is beautiful when roses are left to ramble and plants grow at will. It could be a place with instant history and a quiet room to dream in.
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Charleston: Architectural Heritage
Charleston South Carolina is a must-see for any fan of American architecture -- a living museum of 18th and 19th-century life, southern style with a low-country accent.
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Portugal’s Ten Best Sights
Portugal is filled with exciting travel experiences, don't miss sites, hilltop castles, gardens and beautiful scenery, so it's hard to pick only 10 best places to visit
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Romantic Rose Gardens
How to create a rose garden just for romance.
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A Cottage Garden Valentine
Valentine's Day is right around the corner. So what are you going to do this year? You'll find plenty of ideas here! Valentine's Day is the perfect holiday for gardeners!
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Baja, the town of Waters and Flavours
If you love water, sunshine and activity, then you will be devoted to Baja for the rest of your life.
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English Gardens - Crook Hall County Durham
Crook Hall Gardens belong to the oldest house in Durham city, dating back to the 13th century. Step inside the scented gardens and leave the 20th century behind.
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Flowers Our Grandmothers Grew
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!
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Late Summer Perennials, a heretic view
Late Summer gardens are my least favourite gardening scenes. Am I an Heretic? Photos of the borders and individual photos accompany this article to prove me wrong!
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Restaurants on Sylt: Kupferkanne
The idyllic café Kupferkanne lies just outside Kampen in a romantic park by the sea on the German North Sea island of Sylt. Its unique history goes back to the war.
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Cottage Gardening, Florida Style
It is possible to have a cottage-style garden in Florida. Learn what constitutes this style in the first part of a three-part series.
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FAMILY FUN IN THE FRUIT GARDEN
The fruit garden is a place for the entire family. There children can have fun while they learn about gardening, nature, and nutrition.
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Follow Your Heart: Cottage Garden Design
Plant what you love, and your garden will love you back.
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Our Gardens
I like a romantic garden, a secret garden, a garden from my fairy books that I read so avidly when very young.
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Part I-The Splendor of Renaissance Gardens
The Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of the West. Its humanist founders sought to recapture the spirit of the classical world. This in turn influenced the culture of the day, and had far-reaching effects on garden design.
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Rambling Rector, The Old Musk Rose
The Rambling Rector rose offers the gardener a massive display of flowers and there are few other roses that equal it's worthiness as an addition to any large garden.
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Dwarf Rhododendrons
Many people think of rhododendrons as woodland plants, but most dwarf rhododendrons belong in alpine or rock gardens.
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Library in a Wicker Basket
Brief descriptions of horticulture and gardening books the author knows, loves and uses with great frequentcy and regularity.
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Morikami Japanese Gardens
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.
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Sublime Gardens
Romantics have attempted to create gardens which are intended to evoke feelings of melancholy, fear, and even sublime awe.
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Romantic or Realist - Establishing A Wildflower Lawn or Meadow
Steps important in establishing a wildflower lawn or meadow free of undesirable plants are listed and discussed.
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The Secret Gardens of My Childhood
There is little that a child can control about their environmant - but that doesn't keep them from dreaming and trying. In fact there is much to be learned from the very imperfections of the gardens that fall short of our dreams.

Theme Gardens - Planning without the Pitfalls
Theme gardens can be great fun to plan but may not always work out in the garden unless you use your common sense, give youself a bit of latitude and remember what the plants need.


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