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Designing a Vertical Garden for Small Balconies
Small apartments inhibit gardening scope. A vertical garden, with simple plants and sensible plant containers, ensures constant greenery with minimum use of floor space.
vertical garden • designing a vertical garden • wall gardens • greenery in apartments and patios • inhibit gardening scope

Screens of Green
Widen your garden horizons with fences and walls clothed in green. Small gardens can be made to look much larger than they really are by using a mixture of herbaceous climbing plants. Adorning fences and walls, their flowers and fruits weave a tapestry of colour and scent, softening garden boundaries.
gardening • gardens • hedges • garden walls • garden fences

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.
ruin gardening • romantic gardening • garden • gardening • barn foundation

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.
english gardens • crook halldurham • durham cathedral • crook hall gardens • durham city

English Style Gardens
English gardens can take many shapes, colors, and sizes but they all have a distinct English personality
english garden • walled garden • knot garden • herb garden • formal garden

Low Maintenance Gardening
Creating a garden that looks good without demanding too much from the gardener.

Wallington Hall, a Northumbrian Stately Home
History, art, architecture, woodlands, a walled garden (and a few oddities) are all gathered together on the National Trust's largest complete agricultural estate.
wallington hall • wallington estate in northumberland • the trevelyan family at wallington • wallington hall walled garden • historian george trevelyan

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

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

Naturally Gardening
"Lovely as formal gardens can be, it is these informal schemes, in which boulders form so important a part, that appeal so tremendously" - Edna Walling
garden • landscaping • edna walling • gardens • gardening

Pollok Country Park is Glasgow's Rural Idyll
Glasgow's Pollok Country Park which surrounds historic Pollok House and the Burrell Collection provides the perfect antidote to the bustling streets of the city centre.
pollok park • pollok house • burrell collection • white cart water • best park in britain 2007

Planting the Walls
If you're running out of horizontal garden space, you can always go vertical - even if the only vertical space you have is an old stone wall with fairly tiny cracks that only hold a small amount of dirt. The right plants can transform it from a gray, gloomy ruin to a flowering feature.
aubrieta • rock cress • stone cress • sedum • orostachys

Calke Abbey – Georgian Time Capsule
Inhabited since Tudor times, this stately house and estate was rescued for the nation and preserved in a charming state of "cumbling grandeur"
calke abbey • day out in derbyshire • places to visit in derbyshire • georgian houses • harpur crewe family

Spring Gardens: Problems and Promises
The anxiously awaited green things are peeping through the mulch - along with a few less pleasant surprises. Here we go again - Gardening time!

Interactive TV for Marketing
For a long while TV advertisers have longed for the ability to monitor and interact with their TV audience, and now they can.
itv marketing • interactive marketing • interactive advertising • itv advertising • interactive tv marketing

Secret Gardens
Maybe we can't have a walled garden like the one in the book - but we can make our current garden a bit of a secret.

Slow Stroll through the Gardens Once More
The slow, therapeutic stroll through the garden continues. This time we make it out of the secret garden and up the [ath to the gazebo. (And no - we're not done YET!)

Slowing Down, Smelling (and Seeing) the Flowers Part 2
The slow and healing walk around the garden continues - and many small but healing discoveries are made.

Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Fascinating look into the collected memorabilia of one of America's best loved poets.
poe • the raven • richmond • virginia • james carling

Serendipity in the Garden - Not Just in Springtime.
Every day is springtime wonderful if you take the time to stop and really enjoy the garden, the way the plants are grouped, and the creatures that live and visit there. There are surprises every day if we just let ourselves see,

The Garden Blooms in Winter
You may be surprised to discover what's blooming these days - even while the snowflakes are flying. Here are several plants that are extremely early bloomers - with pictures taken this wek - March 6 and 7 to be exact - to prove it!
aubretia • galanthus nivalis • lonicera fragrantissima • snow crocus • snowdrops

The Gardener's Gift of Travel
A virtual field trip through selected gardens of North America. Design characteristics pertinent to each garden are briefly discussed.
georgene a bramlage • georgene bramlage • designing home landscapes • the gardener's gift of travel • formality

Beatrix Farrand (1872 - 1959)
Beatrix Farrand is one of America's foremost landscape architects. Her works are worth admiring, preserving and emulating.
beatrix farrand • dumbarton oaks • preservation

English Garden by Gertrude Jekyll at Lindisfarne
This small garden in the north of England was created by Gertrude Jekyll in 1911. Reached via the Causeway at Holy Island and overlooked by dramatic Lindisfarne Castle.
gertrude jekyll's garden at lindisfarne • edward lutyens • lindisfarne castle • lindisfarne major centre of christianity • lindisfarne mead

Luxury Golf Vacation in Scotland
Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Nick Faldo visited Greywalls and played at Muirfield Golf Course, venue for several British Open championships. Garden by Gertrude Jekyll.
luxury hotels in scotland greywalls • muirfield golf links • edwin lutyens • edinburgh • golf vacation

The Chilli Fiesta at West Dean Gardens
The chilli festival will take place on the 8 and 9th of August 2009 at West Dean Gardens. Food, Music and over 250 chili peppers are awaiting your visit. Don't miss it.
cilli • chilli fiesta • west dean garden • summer festival • hottest chilli in the world

Ancient History of Scented Gardens
Gardens have been common for thousands of years in one form or another; Ancient Persia, Egypt, the Greeks and the Romans heavily influenced the scents of today's gardens.
ancient history of scented gardens • history of aromatic gardens • egyptian use of aromatic gardens • greek and roman use of aromatic gardens • use of aromatic plants

Arundel Castle – Stately Home and Gardens
Set in the centre of the charming Georgian town of Arundel, the castle's interiors include suits of armour, paintings, tapestries, and glimpses into the family rooms.
arundel castle and gardens • film locations tour • the young victoria film • earl collector's garden at arundel castle • duke of norfok at arundel castle

Calke Abbey
Calke Abbey, an English baroque house, is one of the most fascinating tourist attractions in Derbyshire.
calke abbey • national trust • tourism derbyshire • tourist attractions in derbyshire • harpur

Chicago Botanic Garden a Treat for the Senses
The Chicago Botanic Garden offers an escape from the stresses of the city, with 26 different formal gardens and natural environments located north of the City of Chicago.
chicago botanic garden • horticultural society • public gardens • north shore • japanese bonsai

England - Visit `Historic Stratford-on-Avon
Walking around Stratford on Avon is the best way to learn about Shakespeare's early life, especially the house he was born in and other houses associated with his life.
stratford-on-avon • shakespeare's birthplace • royal shakespeare company • anne hathaway • harvard house

Gibside Hall Estate and Gardens, Gateshead
Situated on the wooded southern slopes of Gateshead's Derwent Valley is one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture and landscape gardening in North-East England.
gibside hall gateshead • bowes-lyon family • palladian architecture at gibside • gibside statue of liberty • derwent valley gateshead

Hotels Near Manchester Airport
There are several Manchester Airport hotels to choose from, including 2-star, 3-star and 4-star, with Hilton, Radisson, Holiday Inn, and Crowne Plaza among the options.
hotels near manchester airport • close to city center • hilton • radisson sas • crowne plaza

How to Buy Real Estate in Mexico
Real estate in Mexico can still be found cheaply whether looking for a hacienda in the country or beach property along the Yucatan coast. Local agents will show you how.
mexico real estate • mexico • merida • hacienda • mexican notary public

Italy - Ferrara
In 1492, the same year that Columbus discovered America for Spain a rich nobleman in Italy was creating Ferrara, "the first modern European city."
ferrara italy • d'este family • palazzo dei diamanti • ferrara circular city wall • ferara parco massari

Nunnington Hall Yorkshire
Nunnington Hall, owned by the National Trust, is an unlikely but popular international concert and exhibition venue.
nunnington • nunnington hall • bryan adams • national trust • yorkshire

Olive Plant Well Documented in Bible
The olive tree and its byproducts have historical significance in the Bible and ancient lands, and specimens 2,000 years old may still thrive.
olive plant in bible • significance of olive tree • olive tree in promised land • olive trees 2 • 000 years old

Rose Standish Nichols
In the 1900s, Rose Standish Nichols, one of Boston's prominent residents ,distinguished herself as a business woman, an author, and an advocate for Women's Rights.
women's rights • beacon hill • english gardens • willa cather • jane addams

Seattle Garden Tour, Part 1
Seattle Garden Tour Part 1. More than 500 garden communicators from across North America descended upon the Emerald City for five days of glorious garden tours. Included a visit to Heronswood Nursery.
seattle garden tour part 1. more than 500 garden c

Szentendre, the town of artists
Szentendre is a town which lies on the right bank of the Danube in the foothills of the Visegrad Hills. Artists' colony was established and the Society of Szentendre Painters was founded. These artists still play a decisive roll in the life of the town as well as in the Hungarian artistic life.
szentendre • hungary • europe • painter • museum

The 17th Century Gardens of John Tradescant
John Tradescant the Elder was an early 17th century plant hunter and botanist who made a name for himself as a plantsman and an innovative garden designer.
john tradescant • plant hunter • hatfield house • cranborne manor • st. augustine's palace

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