a herbatous border near the palm house in kew
Camilla Jørvad is a mother and self-taught photographer who is deeply in love with gardening. Her time tending to her land helps foster a close connection to nature and the changing seasons — something she identifies as crucial for her mental and physical wellbeing.
HGTV shares some of the best shrubs for shade gardens, including shade shrubs such as oakleaf hydrangeas, euonymus, viburnum and elderberries that will add color to your garden with their flowers and foliage.
Abstract floral designers have been taking over our social feeds recently, and we say bring it on! There's nothing like sculptural arrangements that look
Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) capture the beauty of wildflowers. Here's how to care for these loosely planted flowers, water, and fertilizer techniques.
Camilla Jørvad is a mother and self-taught photographer who is deeply in love with gardening. Her time tending to her land helps foster a close connection to nature and the changing seasons — something she identifies as crucial for her mental and physical wellbeing.
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith raised his own prairie garden from seed and was delighted to find it requires a fraction of the maintenance of a conventional border
My design is very simple. I like to repeat some flowers in the border, but I also like to use a random planting scheme that gives a naturalistic face for it. I like very much to use annuals, biennials, and tender perennials with the perennials and self-seeding plants.
Many Hometalk members have recently posted about succulents, and Debra Lee Baldwin has a useful post on companion plants for them on her blog, Gardening Gone Wi…
Leucospermum Carnival® Yellow produces bright yellow flowers throughout spring. Suitable for cut flowers, it grows well in pots, containers and the home garden.
How to Grow Wild Indigo, False Indigo, Rattleweed and other Baptisia Plants. Gardener's HQ Growing Guides.
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Vi danskere er ikke vant til at være vilde i haven, men vi drømmer om sommerenge med vilde blomster. Se de smukke billeder her - måske skal du have et...
For a lavender enthusiast and landscape designer, crafting a wild and beautiful garden in one of the country’s most inhospitable environments was an expression of letting go. Words: Cheree Morrison Photos: Rachael McKenna This article was originally published in the March/April 2018 issue of NZ Life & Leisure. The Central Otago sky is a watercolour backdrop – and the plant palette in Karen Rhind’s Bannockburn garden makes up the ‘brushes’ that wash it with delicate hues: the fragrant tips of green bushels dipped in lavender and violet; ticklish grasses in shades of blonde, and olive trees thick with bristles of
Cattails are an extremely useful plant that can be found along streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes - virtually anywhere there is a water source. Did you know that almost every part of the cattail plant
Collection de 8 variétés de vivaces naturelles de soleil et de sol sec, pour couvrir un massif de 2m²
Gillentia trifoliata is a native (to the North East of the USA) plant that is a dramatic and elegant in the shade garden.
Perfect for small gardens, Astilbe chinensis 'Vision inferno' (Chinese Astilbe) is a compact, clump-forming perennial boasting cream to blush pink flowers held in dense plumes. Blooming in mid to late summer, each plume consists of hundreds of densely packed tiny flowers opening in succession for a long-lasting floral display.
I had my camera with me on a recent visit to Annie's Annuals and Perennials in Richmond and caught a few images of their demonstration gard...
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Never heard of borage plant? You're not alone. Here are some terrific reasons to consider welcoming this easy-to-grow plant with lovely edible star-shaped flowers into your garden! Read on to learn about excellent borage uses
We polled our go-to garden experts for their hardy and inexpensive favorites.
Geranium maculatum is a pretty flowering plant native to eastern North America. In addition to filling natural woodland openings, this herbaceous perennial works well in informal gardens as well, offering loose clusters of pink flowers in late spring to early summer. Learn more about wild geranium in this article...
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) ia a wild, medicinal herb that I've infused to flavour this gorgeous yarrow creme brulee recipe.
Looking for a fuss-free perennial that's attractive, dependable, deer-resistant, multiseasonal and extremely long-lived? Meet baptisia-a prairie native whose beautiful spires are reminiscent of the beloved lupine, minus the maintenance.
Grow beautiful flowers in every season with plants that deer are known to avoid. Discover deer-resistant plants for all types of gardens.
Botanical Name: Levisticum officinale. Other Common Names: Old English lovage, Italian and Cornish lovage, maggi plant, smellage, cajoler’s weed, levisticum, maggiqurzel, sauerkrautwurz. Habitat: Lovage is native to the Mediterranean region of southern Europe and Asia Minor, and can be found growing throughout central and southern Europe, parts of Britain, Eastern U.S., and southwestern Asia. It is cultivated in Europe to be distilled for essential oils. It does best in sunny to partly shaded locations, in a moist, well-drained soil rich in humus. Lovage prefers a pH range from 5.0 – 7.6. Description: Lovage is a perennial plant that may reach
Extremely showy, Veronicastrum virginicum' displays eye-catching spikes of densely-clustered, tiny, pure white flowers with pink-flushed bases and pink anthers, from midsummer to early fall. With a candelabra look, these attractive inflorescences are nicely complemented by lanceolate, dark-green leaves that are arranged in whorls around the stem. Providing interesting vertical height in the garden, this plant is deer resistant, attracts scores of butterflies, and is highly prized for its cut flowers
