Articles related to "Vertical Accents"

Home gardeners can mimic the success of professional landscapers by using plants of varying heights. These tall growing plants do well for behind shorter flowers.

These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.

Growing vegetables instead of ornamental perennial plants, doesn't mean a gardeners landscape has to look boring. These tall vegetables will add height to the landscape.

The foxglove is a stately plant that has been featured in gardens for centuries. This growing guide will help you care for, maintain and select the best foxglove.

See the best of the new annual plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.

Whatever landscape a gardener has to work with, there is sure to be an iris he can grow to enjoy months of colorful flowers and attractive foliage.

From heirloom cottage gardens to today's modern landscapes, the twining sweet pea adds colorful fragrance to any home garden space.

Astilbe plants are an excellent choice for gardeners to add color to a shade garden and flower heads also make good cut flowers.

False indigo, or wild indigo is a useful perennial plant for flowering gardens with attractive fall seed pods and late spring flowers.

Whether growing for the delicious seeds, to attract wildlife to the landscape, or for cut flower blossoms, gardeners love sunflowers.

Russian Sage is not related to the Salvia family of plants, but provides gardeners with an amazing flower display in dry conditions.

Sweet autumn clematis is a deciduous perennial vine that takes center stage in the garden every fall with showers of white fragrant flowers.

Spitalfields has been home to immigrants from refugee French Protestants in the 1600s to today's Bangladeshi community - each new nation leaving its mark on the place.

Learn how to use plants with winter fruits or berries to add color and delight to your garden. There are so many delightful trees, shrubs and others to choose from!

Bulbs are a great way to add accent and color to mixed containers to increase the drama and impact. See some favorite bulb plants for baskets, pots and planters.

Summer is a time for enjoying the outdoors. These colorful summer container plants make it easy to create interest and drama in an outdoor porch or sitting area.

Attractive evergreen shrubs can be trained up walls and fences as a colorful backdrop for other perennial plants and garden borders.

The perennial larkspur plant is an easy and delightful thing for many landscapers and gardeners, adding old-fashioned charm to any bed or border.

These plants are authentic choices for a Japanese garden and provide color, contrast of form and a meditative beauty to a reflection garden area.

Creating a special garden in honor and memory of a loved one, wedding anniversary, child's birth or other special event is easy by selecting one of memorable plants.

These flowering shrubs and perennial plants are all known to attract butterflies to the garden. Flowers and flutters - what could be better?

Often when combining plants to create dramatic containers you want to select plants with contrasting foliage type and color. Choose some fine cut foliage plants.

Until we solve many of our current pollution problems some urban gardens will suffer. Here are smog tolerant options for gardens in dirty cities.

These ten Biblical plants were mention in the scriptures and are still popular or widely used today. Find out some interesting facts about these Bible plants.

Most people know their horoscope sign; there are garden plants associated with each zodiac sign as well. Perhaps we should ask "What is your bloom?" when we meet someone.

The bulb growing season can be extended by using tender bulbs or other summer flowering, perennial bulbs in the yellow themed garden.

Putting together a seasonal container planting full of color and excitement means combining plants with contrasting growth habit, color and foliage texture.

Beginning gardeners can grow lupines successfully in the flower garden, as this hardy plant tolerates a wide variety of growing conditions.