Category: Garden Ideas
Add Japanese Zen Style to Your Garden
Zen and it’s Influence on the Japanese Garden There have been other philosophies that have...
Read MoreHow to Use Stones for a Japanese Garden Style
STONE IN THE JAPANESE ROCK GARDEN Let the garden be your guide There is a certain calmness that comes to you as you view a well laid-out Japanese garden. While it is hard to define any one particular element as the source of...
Read MoreEasy Japanese Garden Tips for Everyday Gardens
JAPANESE GARDEN DESIGN PRINCIPLES On the path toward a successful garden Five Basic Design Principles of Japanese Garden Design Nature is the ideal Strive to create a sense of balance Element of space Element of time in the...
Read MoreHow to Create a Garden in a Shady Area
Working with shade to create beauty where you least thought possible Imagine you’re walking down a country lane. As you gaze ahead of you, you notice the road wanders into an alley of birches. The dappled sunlight beneath them...
Read MoreCompanion Planting Guide
Guide to Companion Planting How to use shape, color and texture to create a showcase quality garden. Shape Color Texture Companion plants are plants that balance each other on some level. They can be either contrasts or...
Read MoreYour Garden Needs Native Plants… Right Now
Improve Your Garden with Native Species When I first started doing talks on native plants it was generally to half a room of people (if I was lucky) and they knew absolutely nothing on the subject. A few years back I gave a talk...
Read MoreHow to Prepare a Garden for Winter
Keep Plants Safe in Winter and Happy in Spring When autumn nights start to get cold, it’s time to prepare your garden for winter. Winterizing not only makes your garden look better during the cold weather months, but will make...
Read MoreAttract Birds to Your Garden
How to Attract Birds to a Garden There are very few of us who do not enjoy the sight and sounds of...
Read MoreHow to Attract Butterflies
Designing a Garden to Attract Butterflies Butterflies linger in sunny places Because they are “cold blooded”, butterflies require warmth to be active. They do this by basking in the sunlight. Rarely do they spend much time in...
Read MoreDIY Landscape Design
While designing the landscape around your home can seem a daunting task to the uninitiated, it is simply a matter of taking things one step at a time, taking in to account the various factors that can affect our landscape in the...
Read MoreGrow a Superior Garden with Native Plants
My first remembrance of becoming interested in the plant world takes me back to my mother’s childhood home in the Berkshire foothills of Northwestern Connecticut. We were hiking up the hill across the stream from the house she...
Read MoreUnlock an Amazing Garden with Native Plants
Native Plants are Good for Your Garden We garden in perilous times. Invading diseases, insects and plants all converge on our gardens, usually thwarted by increasingly destructive measures. Often the very plants we are using in...
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