Edible landscaping can be an easy way to grow food in the front yard. Learn some strategies for designing a beautiful, low-maintenance edible landscape.
Harvest straight from your yard with these front yard landscaping ideas for edible gardens.
3 ½ months ago I decided to rip out all the shrubs and bushes in my front yard and plant a vegetable garden. I got blisters and a weird rash. 2 ½ months ago I planted my
Last year I converted my front yard into a native habitat. Goodbye grass, hello native plants! Why? To save the insects. First, lawn grass does not benefit much in nature. If there is little rain, …
From lush garden beds bursting with vibrant blooms to building a cozy fire pit for unforgettable evenings, this collection has it all.
If you’re looking to have a food garden, why not create an edible front yard landscape? Learn how you can create an eye-pleasing design.
If you’re looking to have a food garden, why not create an edible front yard landscape? Learn how you can create an eye-pleasing design.
Known as the original cottage garden flower, the Hollyhock has been prized for centuries. The plant is absolutely gorgeous, and has some pretty incredible herbal medicine uses, as well. In fact, in 1859 it was recognized in a medical journal to be an excellent way to soothe an upset stomach.
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Yarrow White - 200-250x Seeds Yarrow is a perennial plant, growing to 60cm, with many uses. Produces tall stems with large clusters of white flowers. It is the most widely used medicinal herb on the planet but also makes a great cut flower, deters mosquitoes, attracts beneficial insects to the garden and is used as an essential oil. Makes an amazing cut flower and dries well for dried flower arrangements! Suitable to grow in any climate, it also grows well in containers. Drought tolerant and often grown to prevent soil erosion. An easy to grow, attractive flower and herb! Seed Starting Method Raise seedlings and plant out or sow directly Sowing Depth 3mm Growing Season Spring or after last frost Germination Time 14-21 days at around 18-21c Hardiness Perennial hardy Plant Spacing 60cm Plant Height 60cm Planting Position Partial or full sun Days Until Maturity 120-130 days Growing tips
Landscapers are making private and public spaces more useful, and planting edible alternatives to traditional plants.
Growing amaranth isn't difficult, and it's the perfect plant for edible landscaping thanks to its gorgeous flowers, and nutritious seeds and leaves.
Wormwood is an herb that has been historically used in absinthe and long thought to cause hallucinations. This article explains everything you need to know about wormwood, including its benefits and side effects.
This perennial, with its profusion of blooms and vigorous growth habit, still has a place in many cottage gardens.
Le jardin de curé, très utilisé au Moyen-âge, réunit les végétaux utiles à la consommation et décoratifs. Découvrez comment s’en inspirer facilement.
Often thought of as a weed, common plantain is actually edible, medicinal, and restorative to soil. Learn how you can grow and enjoy this useful herb.
Good-looking, compact, bushy, and heat-loving, Achillea millefolium 'Apricot Delight' is a stunning Yarrow with its masses of long-lasting flower clusters in various shades of pink, from palest apricot to near red. Its pleasantly aromatic, semi-evergreen, fern-like foliage is disease resistant and nicely compliments the cheerful dusty-pink flat umbel flowers.
Currant bushes are a great addition to the edible landscape. Here's how I grow them in my landscape and use the currants in the kitchen.
Learn how to easily make your own healing calendula oil at home, to soothe dozens of skin ailments, including acne, eczema, wounds, burns, rashes, and more!
What is a moon garden? Moon gardens include plants with white flowers and silver or variegated foliage that can be seen reflected in the moonlight. Moon gardens also include white garden flowers with evening fragrance. Moon gardens can be created with your entire yard, a specific area, or even in just one container.
Salvia apiana An Orange County native Salvia! Striking silvery white lance-shaped leaves are held on stiff branches that grow 2’ tall by 4’ wide. Flower spikes appear in spring with white blooms on rigid 3’ stems. Loved by bees and hummingbirds. Heat and drought tolerant, it really doesn’t want much summer water. Requires well-draining soil. ‘White Sage’ has many potential medicinal uses, including teas made from the leaves that are said to relieve cold symptoms and congestion. One of the primary components of smudge sticks used as incense. Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’ Make room for this handsome California lilac, which forms a large shrub or small tree approximately 15 feet tall and wide. Abundant true-blue, fragrant flowers bloom in spring and attract bees, butterflies and birds. It’s evergreen, fast growing, long lived, heat and drought tolerant, and low maintenance. Muhlenbergia rigens Heat and drought tolerant, this hardy native grass displays stiff, narrow purple spikes above the 3’ tall and wide mounding foliage. Fall finds this grass at its peak, with flowing plumes that beautifully catch morning and evening light, while adding graceful movement to the garden. Wonderful in mass plantings when there’s room, or as a specimen in smaller spaces. Effective erosion control on dry slopes. An essential for the native and wild garden for habitat. Romneya coulteri One of the biggest, showiest flowers a California native has to offer. Also known as ‘fried egg plant’ for its huge white flowers in late summer that look just like that. This is a big plant, fast-growing to 6’ tall and forming large clumps of stalks with blue-green foliage and those fabulous flowers. It spreads from underground runners and will extend as far as you’ll let it, so make sure it has plenty of room. Plant in full sun and water weekly for the first season, then reduce to every other week or less. Heuchera maxim This is the largest and longest blooming of the Coral Bells. A vigorous, easy to grow plant, it can reach 2’ tall and wide. Stalks of white flowers tinged with pink rise 2 feet above the evergreen leaves throughout spring. It thrives in bright shade or dappled sun with occasional watering. One of the most tolerant native plants for clay soils and dark shade. Beautiful in a mass planting or along a boarder, especially under the dappled shade of trees, like our native Coast Live Oak. Native to the Channel Islands. Salvia apiana An Orange County native Salvia! Striking silvery white lance-shaped leaves are held on stiff branches that grow 2’ tall by 4’ wide. Flower spikes appear in spring with white blooms on rigid 3’ stems. Loved by bees and hummingbirds. Heat and drought tolerant, it really doesn’t want much summer water. Requires well-draining soil. ‘White Sage’ has many potential medicinal uses, including teas made from the leaves that are said to relieve cold symptoms and congestion. One of the primary components of smudge sticks used as incense. Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’ One of the biggest, showiest flowers a California native has to offer. Also known as ‘fried egg plant’ for its huge white flowers in late summer that look just like that. This is a big plant, fast-growing to 6’ tall and forming large clumps of stalks with blue-green foliage and those fabulous flowers. It spreads from underground runners and will extend as far as you’ll let it, so make sure it has plenty of room. Plant in full sun and water weekly for the first season, then reduce to every other week or less. Heuchera maxim This is the largest and longest blooming of the Coral Bells. A vigorous, easy to grow plant, it can reach 2’ tall and wide. Stalks of white flowers tinged with pink rise 2 feet above the evergreen leaves throughout spring. It thrives in bright shade or dappled sun with occasional watering. One of the most tolerant native plants for clay soils and dark shade. Beautiful in a mass planting or along a boarder, especially under the dappled shade of trees, like our native Coast Live Oak. Native to the Channel Islands. Muhlenbergia rigens Heat and drought tolerant, this hardy native grass displays stiff, narrow purple spikes above the 3’ tall and wide mounding foliage. Fall finds this grass at its peak, with flowing plumes that beautifully catch morning and evening light, while adding graceful movement to the garden. Wonderful in mass plantings when there’s room, or as a specimen in smaller spaces. Effective erosion control on dry slopes. An essential for the native and wild garden for habitat. Romneya coulteri One of the biggest, showiest flowers a California native has to offer. Also known as ‘fried egg plant’ for its huge white flowers in late summer that look just like that. This is a big plant, fast-growing to 6’ tall and forming large clumps of stalks with blue-green foliage and those fabulous flowers. It spreads from underground runners and will extend as far as you’ll let it, so make sure it has plenty of room. Plant in full sun and water weekly for the first season, then reduce to every other week or less.
Marv Bondarowicz / The OregonianThe layered textures, colors and maturity of the Marsh/Fear garden are surprising for a close-in city lot, but Marsh has had 30 years to tweak her ever-evolving landscape. "It's our own private park," she says. This...
