Completed redesigned and replanted 7 years ago, this series of garden area covers two-thirds of an acre, with a view of Sausalito across the water. New stone walls were recently added to terrace the SW facing hill. The growing season begins with irises and then moves on to roses (100+) and then to dahlias. Other highlights of this pie-shaped property include a woodlands garden, 18 fruit trees, a redwood greenhouse, a succulent garden, an antique water pump collection and garden sculpture. The garden features flowers at the warm end of the spectrum: apricot, orange, hot pink, red and burgundy with smaller doses of blue-purple and chartreuse. Although the Zone 9b garden rarely sees frost conditions, Paula and Dennis Jaffe contend with less than ideal soil and climate challenges. Morning fog, clay soil, extreme wind and Southwest facing tiers with unrelenting sunshine are a few of the problems. The water shortage is also an ever present consideration. Drip irrigation waters 100% of the plants with the lawn sprinkled by MP rotaters. Several compost areas and a worm farm provide the planting beds with a constant supply of natural fertilizer.

The direct Marin sun means these roses require little attention and flourish with just the smallest amount of time.

Three acres containing, 3600 square foot vegetable garden and various flower beds.

You can find me and my garden adventures at http://jellyfishbay.wordpress.com For those that want more: Growing up in the "winter, water, wonderland" that is Michigan has made me appreciate the natural world around us. I maintain a hummingbird/butterfly garden at the local library through my volunteer hours as a master gardener and a tiny, urban flower garden at home - it is mostly shade but I have a few spots that get more sun.

I have many plants in containers, due to poor soil and rampant gophers. But I also have other plants in the ground, including roses, fortnight lilies and fruit trees. I love drought-resistant plants like Pride of Madeira, flax and ceanothus.

Villa de Flores is a private Estate Garden with a Mediterranean style. It has Italian Gardens with stone pillars and rustic wood beams with rambling roses. Waterfalls, lush lawns, stream beds, BBQ's and Fireplaces and much more. We have opened our garden up for weddings and events. Please visit us at http://www.villadefloresevents.com

Mostly veggies in back with flowers in front

Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.

This was a crazy idea from the get-go! After traveling around the country for 12 years it gave us a chance to check out areas to settle in. We were still undecided when we were hit by a few hurricanes in a row. That was it! I had the RV wired for the internet and started searching for a place to move to. I found this place and the price was right. I had some pictures emailed to me. They were mostly of the interior and a couple of the exterior. Nothing of the little over 5 acres of land. When we got here I could see why. The place was neglected and over-grown with about 2 or so acres covered in Kudzu. So we "bought the farm"!!!! The original idea was to buy some property we could transform into a viable, productive farm. Problem is neither one of us are farmers. I come from a product design background! Since we got here we have begun to see some progress but we have a long way to go. So Follow My Farm as we grow and go on an adventure together!

Excited for the coming Spring! Blooms of crocus, crunchy sweet peas and dirt under my fingernails!

U.K.Young Hardy/Half hardy Jungle garden heavily planted with Bamboos, Palms and about 10 different Musa and Ensete types.All in rural Oxfordshire. U.K.

Labor of love that has been 12 years in the making. 10 screening trees, rose garden, lilacs and perennials.

This is my first official vegetable garden.

I like to plant whatever catches my eye. I have two perennial gardens featuring oriental poppies, lilies, hostas, astibles, columbines,daisies,blackeyed susans,purple cone flowers. Just to name a few of my favorites. One garden gets full sun all day. The second gets the morning sun only and shade from the house for the rest of the day. Due to the fact that I'm on the lake I have to plant species that can tolerate the wind.

We live on 80 acres of woods,marsh,bog,wild field & pond. We are blessed with abundant and fascinating wildlife. We moved here in '06 to retire and simplify life. I vowed not to be tied to large and numerous gardens as my health is failing. I decided on a veggie garden with small beds and herb borders. I use a lot of fresh herbs in cooking,garnish, and healing. Each bed can be easily worked from a network of mulched pathways and instead of the one acre garden we once had to have to feed our large family, this garden provides enough for fresh eating and attractive plantings. In our front yard there was an existing crescent moon perennial garden we haven't been able to resist adding to until the borders are bursting and it was going to have to be expanded in some way. A new bed was tilled this summer and now we have mirror image gardens in the front yard on either side of a cement bench. We have just begun the plantings. In the back yard a tiny daylily bed has been replaced by a partial sun perennial garden, a small pond and border plantings. I have planted roses which I love but have not had good luck with in our previous home. To the west of the house, against the woods, we have a hosta bed that is beautifully serene. Our gardens are always evolving and quirky and challenge me to find ways to limit the work and enlist helpful hands and minds. I am by by no means a professional I just enjoy the sun, soil and challenge- So welcome to my garden

I'm working to transform a patch of weeds into a cozy patio sitting area....

I love to garden both inside and outside. I recently started a 24 x 20 garden spot. I am growing tomatoes, green peppers, pumpkins, zucchini, winter squash. I also love to grow flowers in my yard primarily perennials.

Just moved in to this house and there was an existing garden that was pretty boring. I love gardening but I just struggle with what to do about this mess. The soil is very poor. After watering it dries almost to a solid mass. I need help!!!!

I'm trying to grow as many veggies as I can in Calgary's wierd climate. Cold weather crops do better. Tomatoes must be under glass or forget it. It's discouraging at times. I use rain water to water mostly everything. I like simple old fashioned plants like morning glories, nasturtiums, sweet peas, roses etc. I always get blossom end rot on my zucchini and don't know how to prevent it..

A mixture of English-style perennials, with a strong component of daylilies, some of which I have hybridized.

Beautiful landscaped gardens, with Daffodills, tulips Hyacinth in the Spring, Peony, Iris & Lillies in the summer.

3/4 acre corner lot. Lived here 14 years and finally looking good. Multi shrub border and 14' high cedar hedge borders a tiered garden in the back and perennial border in the front.

Heirloom perennials, vegetables, raspberries, strawberries

I have several areas, a perennial shrub border in the front which is gradually taking over the lawn, a vegetable garden, a shade garden and an area "in transition"

This is my first attempt this year, with a veggie garden. So far so good, almost everything has grown, except celery and leeks, but I planted them too late. I should have started them indoors, too. Hopefully, weather permits (so far July has been colder and rainier than usual), I'll get some good veggies out of it. I'll repeat the experience in my private yard next year, as I have just bought my first home.

An eclectic mix of perennials, herbs (my true love), annuals and veggies. Potager style. I have an herb garden too. I try to grow heritage varieties like peas and lettuce, as my small way to keep more variety on the planet.

Slowly on limited budget converting very small unused in-town backyard space,under black walnut and in driveway, into micro nature spot. Natural species and herbs with a few vegetable attempts......

We've torn down the garage and created a large vegetable patch.

Mostly Raised Beds, Some sunny spots, some shady spots mostly partial sun. Mostly veggies a few grapes, berries and flowers

1st year Community Plot - July 2009. Assorted vegetables, berries and a little lavender to attract the bees.

rose garden with 25 bloomin' beauties. Big garden half perennials, half veggies. water garden with rock garden plants surrounding the waterfall. 3 beds with mostly perennials with a few annuals thrown in to fill empty spaces.

Small garden in Mississauga. It's like an english cottage garden with vegetables and roses peacefully coexisting

Water Feature Garden

Always changeing/adding, growing, love to watch the birds come and go. A place for peace of mind!

Raised beds planted to variety of perennials.

Started spring 08 after we moved and cleaned up and then had it all torn up for a new septic system.

A variety of different gardens covering collections of lilacs, perennials, shrubs and annuals for cut flowers.

Lots of sunshine, very windy.

took out all the grass, wanted trees, shrubs, and perenials. put in pathways and even a pond

I have a very shady backyard surrounded by cedar trees so hard to grow stuff; however I put in two ponds for fish and frogs and have resorted to potted plants that love shade.

An eclectic work in progress.

1 acre lot with lots of trees linning property and a grove of linden trees in the front yard; gardens around the house, shed and linning the back of property, with much more to come. Full sun in back yard and dappled sun in front.

Started it 8 years ago when moved in. My first garden, so I am practicing with different themes. I have a Japanese, Mediterranean, Wildflower, English Country. The flowers are all white and mostly perennial. The grass is left as it was, full of clover, the white flowers blend in well.

Perennial flowers, No till raised beds, Three Sisters garden.

A combination of many edible plants, vegetables, perennials, fruits, herbs, and beautiful textures and smells. This is the first year for this garden. Visit my garden at http://www.gardenmom29.blogspot.com/

8 fruit trees, 5 flowering cherries, an ancient japanese maple and lots of perrienials

I have been transforming a long neglected property into gardens over the last 3 years. I now have a small pond and very little grass left. Alot of perennials, some vegetables, and fruiting shrubs: raspberries, boysenberries, and a full size mulberry tree that is driving me crazy: what a mess! But the berries are delicious and the birds love it. Still needs refining, better fencing, etc. I use no chemicals: organic methods only.

I grow herbs and vegetables. This year tomatoes were bit, beans, snow peas basil and strawberries were added.

Started in Spring, 2008, as a specialty cut flower farm in north central Texas, growing for farmers market and florists. As farm develops, we hope to become a pick-your-own flower farm. I grow on 1 acre-my limit since I am the farmer/grower/seller/etc. Annual beds are planted in 50 foot rows under landscape fabric with driptape irrigation. Some annuals we grow are: Kurume celosia, ProCut sunflower, Benary Giant zinnia, perilla, Amazon Neon Duo dianthus, broomcorn, Ammi, Nigella, Gaillardia, Jobs Tears , Crane kale, Blue Boy cornflower, Lisianthus, Ageratum Perennial beds are being prepared with a labyrinth path through the field. Perennials we are growing are Prairie Sun rudbeckia, Purple Smoketree, Curly Willow, Lambsear, Powis Castle artemesia, Jewels of Ophar, Jerusalem Sage, Mint, Grasses, Vitex, Salvia leucanthus, Autumn Joy sedum, Thalia, OsageOrange, Viburnum, Buddleia, Leonotis, Echinacea - Coconut Lime, Mac n Chees

20' x 50' rectagular community allotment garden at the Agnes Street Community Garden in Saanich, BC, Canada.

I live on 2.5 acres and have perennial gardens around the house. I am an amateur gardener and always looking to learn. I have 6 apple trees, two grape vines and a small vegetable garden. I am looking into planting a small herb garden.

just a little flower garden

5 year old property located on a corner with a southwest exposure

Finally getting summer here thank goodness as we are busy combining and need the hot dry weather, the garden is staring to wain and I have to water frequently to keep it fresh, starting to collect seeds and moving some lilies. I have control my urge to lay out yet another bed.

I enjoy growing many types of perennials such as lilies, roses and cut flowers and enjoy growing vegetables and fruits in our edible garden patch.

Inherited garden that I am renovating with my novice skills, that increase each year.

In a valley, on a steep slope. Microclimate may extend to zone 5, as lavendar survives the winter.

Over the years we've slowly been taming our backyard. When we bought the place the yard was completely overgrown. The people that put on the siding had to cut a great deal of shrubbery down just to get to the house.

I have a large back yard with a hill. There is a pond and a waterfall. It is an oasis in the city. Off the back door is a pergola covered with Wisteria. The hill is covered with perennials and trees. There are paths on the hill.

Eclectic. Still working on transforming it from grass and weeds. Hopefully, in 2 years or so, I'll be able to say it's "a work in progress".

20'x50'south.a little east involved but mostly south.we haven't made our deck yet...but once it's up I will need help to know what to plant.we live in Kanata,ontario.this might give you an idea of the zone.thanks

Just starting to landscape, the main idea is to have a low maintenance, yet lush landscape with Tuscan colors.

Fairly young two year old perennial garden

small perennial garden in the suburbs on a tiny lot. Full sun behind the house and morning sun (til about 1pm) in the front.

Lots of lawn and trees, mostly perennials -- I love peonies, delphiniums and day lilies. We also have a smallish vegetable garden.

This is where my heart is and my place of peace and sanity. I love to come and work in the soil and look at the colors and the changing shapes and sizes of the plants and to keep changing things year after years, adding this and removing that. I love to taste the produce from my tiny vegetable garden and complete with the weather and the creatures for the produce to see who will win this year. It is always different and always challenging and always a feast to the eyes and the heart.

I am a lazy gardener, so use mostly trees, shrubs and a few perrenials. There was nothing but grass & toads in the yard, in 1996 when we moved to Fox Creek. We like it better now!

My garden is small, but the rewards I get from it are immense. I am my happiest there-just feeling the soil between my fingers and the sun and breezes on my face. In my garden, I am at peace; and time has no essence.

A simple cottage garden that my children can play in.

When I bought my home in 1998 there existed only grass and a fence surrounding the house. I started gardening in 2000. Each year I have added beds, plants, shrubs, trees and hardscapes.

I've only gardened for 5 years, but I'm learning. :)

I strive to create a garden that is fun for my children, provides fresh food for my family, and is attractive to look at.

My garden is a mixture of annuals, perennials and tropicals in beds, pots and baskets. I start as many plants as I can from seed every year. Tropicals are house plants in the winter.

Lots of perenials and self seeding flowers with a few pots and annuals for variety and all seson blooms.

Beausejour, Manitoba Beausejour Daylily Gardens located in the town of Beausejour, Manitoba, 46 km north-east of Winnipeg. This two-acre community garden has something blooming from spring to snowfall.The Zone 2b Beausejour Daylily Gardens is the only American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden on the prairies; the perfect place to test any tree or plant. It is also home to the most amazing collection of iris and peonies. We presently have over 550 Daylilies cultivars and over 150 Lily varieties.We are also an official Lily Display Garden documented with Manitoba Regional Lily Society. However, there is far more to the Beausejour Daylily Gardens than just daylilies. Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the Garden Angel Program. Although the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens are responsible for the planning that goes into the park, and the Town provides some maintenance, it is the “Garden Angels:” who maintain the park to AHS Display Garden standards. Each section has a folk art sign with it’s number and the name of the Angel looking after it.

15000 sq ft of land and I want it to produce!

Semi Shade side yard with tall Elms shading on boulevard located on a corner...

I started out with plans for an English garden but because of the soil and the type of plants that favoured the location it turned into an Eclectic garden. My children love it and my cats think they are living in a garden jungle when everything is fully grown. It is also a nature habitat and I also try to grow plants for the wild birds, butterflies, and bees.

I have a simple garden with lots of greens and then dashed with bright colours.

Country Garden.. Full sun to full shade. Older trees including snags.

moving from b.c.(5 years ago) i had to learn and still learning about q.c. gardening!!! we started this garden from NOTHING.our first winter we walked over the new seadlings wich were everywhere in the house...and then it was just hard work to make a flat farm surrounded by organic fields into a cosy backyard...stillin the process..but loving it. mimi

A collection of gardens featuring perennials, annuals, shrubery, pathways, water features and ornaments suitable to the sun/shade conditions. Several sitting areas provide interesting and colorful perspectives of the landscape.

Vegetable Garden with some flower surrounding the perimeter.

Bedding plants, lilies, daisies, peonies, silver mounds, raspberries sedum

South exposure but some decent shade behind the spruce. Got a new place and had to start all over again. Some wonderful irises, thyme and a dianthus collection, many sale plants still in their pots, still yardstone to put out. Toddlers take up a lot of the former time and energy we had! At least there is some youthful enthusiasm for watering :) An even rougher but larger backyard plot has blanketflower, raspberries, thornless thistle and deep-coloured delphiniums. Sea holly, usually a failure for the past many years, finally came back with a beautiful purple-blue sheen on the stems. Grass and willow invading; when will we have the time and energy? Trying to encourage a combo apple to grow.

I Love to grow any kind of flower if it will survive in my yard. Very windy, and full sun to part shade, mixed soil conditions. Started a compost this year,( have tried before but not successful) The garden is always changing , mostly because I cannot make up my mind, that is always a good thing for my friends whom I give my extra plants to. I planted vegetables this year, and am loving the great taste of home grown veggies. yum.

12 acre garden under construction

I have a long narrow garden, with wooden panelled fencing on both sides so they cast shadows on the garden in the morning and evening if we are lucky to have sunlight. Its a work in progress as a friend has designed a series of garden rooms which I am very slowly implementing. Another friend constructed a living willow fence for me this year so that forms one of the 'room' boundaries. I have a raised bed for vegetable growing - all in modest amounts given the restriction on space. I have successfully grown beans, peas, lettuces, rocket, strawberries, cucumbers, spuds (potatoes), herbs and so on in the productive garden.

I have lived here for 15 years and have added many plants on a whim! Some are in the right place some are not. The whole family use the space for many different activities. The garden has a southern aspect and is fully fenced.

For the past three years I've been attempting to re-establish a garden which my mother had over 10 years ago. The earth sat for about eight years and then weeds invaded with overgrowth (as the house and property were rented). I have been adding sand, peat and manure to the clay like soil and am starting to have success with growing vegetables. Which is great considering the house is just under 4000ft on the Kimberley Ski Hill. Next step is to landscape and re-establish a lawn.

Tuscan style garden with rolling lawns, waterfalls and ponds, patio areas, fireplaces, fire pits, and a few daffy ducks to keep the snails at bay!

about 300m2 in size, had drainage installed & renovated, in working progress. Have Kitchen garden, flowers, trees, and lawn among the 60m2 patio area that will include Clay Pizza oven and decking area.

This is a brand new project. I have replaced the crappy clay we call soil around here and I'm looking forward to hostas, herbs and a few bulbs for colour.

Small backyard with patio and fish pond. Lilacs and hydrangeas. Next year I'll be planting roses and clematis along my cedar trellis.

Just starting out on trying to get our garden into shape, growing fruit, veg and a few mixed borders

My garden is a collection of "cast offs" from other peoples gardens. In all reality, it really shouldn't have done as well as it has

My garden is a collection of "cast offs" from other peoples gardens. In all reality, it really shouldn't have done as well as it has

Flat lawn with a steeply sloping hill behind. We have added raised beds, retaining walls a pond and a mountainview patio.

This site was a former gravel pit when we started 9 years ago. The soil is very gravelly over a heavy clay base. The Southern Gulf Islands of BC are in a 'rain shadow' so water is limited. We think we have created a wonderful haven for birds and humans! Our garden includes a pond and stream, 18 fruit trees and raised boxes for vegetables.

Vegetable garden. 2nd year. Corn, zuchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, egg plant, cucumbers, radishes, green beans, carrots, tomatillo, lettuce, muck melon, summer and winter squashm herbs. Had success last year with pumpkins and potatoes also. Full sun 8+ hours per day and is watered by hand or sprinkler daily for a least 1/2 hour. Very loose mixed soil of peat, compost, clay, and sheep and mushroom manure.

Our backyard consists of a part sun/part shade garden, a rock garden, and a garden along the fence. We also have several trees in the yard, and a small vegetable patch at the side of the house.

3 year old, north facing plot, we have planned from scratch. I will add photos soon.

Our garden is a kid and bird friendly space! We have 2 children, ages 2 and 8 and we love birds, butterflies and even the bugs! The garden is an outdoor classroom to our kids, since they get to learn so much from it! It is always colorful, both our front and backyards and I especially look forward to the arrival of "my" purple martins, that every spring come back to our backyard, all the way from MY BEAUTIFUL BRAZIL!!! I am proud of how much my garden draws the attention of our neighbours, especially since I had to relearn everything I knew about gardening, as plants here require different care from what I knew before. One of my favourite past times is taking pictures of my plants, birds, bugs and my family, of course!

The Yard Fairy's yard is a mixture of different plants and styles.

With the purchase of our home 2 years ago, I inherited several raised weed and bramble infested beds in my southern exposed back yard. After much work I am learning to grow vegetables and currently have scarlet runner beans, swiss chard, ever-bearing strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, yellow bush beans, beets and a section of herbs. I love it!

5 park like acres with year round salmon creek, large seder trees, alder, birch, maple and many others. lots of lawn. Also Vegetable, berry fruit garden and poly tunnel. We try to blend the wild with the domestic.

Vegetables, Fruit trees, grapes, blueberries, thornless blackberries, and garlc

A work in progress since the pool was removed.

Front yard decorative

My garden is my friend, mentor and sometimes advisary. I fight the clay soil, curse the rocks and battle weeds. Still, every spring I am hopeful and happy to be with my friend. We worship togeather, commune with the universe and hope the beauty and mystery of nature soothes our souls. Me and garden are friends with lots of flaws but we put up wth each other.

A mixture of sun and shade loving perennials with a few annuals. I'm starting to try flowering shrubs and different lilies.

A few flowers, shrubs, and vegetable plants

a mixed garden of 1.5 acres with a fruit garden, vegetables, flower beds, woodland garden. Very friendly for wildlfife

I have flower beds on all sides of the house. The back was mostly shade until we lost a big tree last winter. I have a mixture of perennials, shrubs and bulbs.

Small back and front garden but packed with plants, shrubs and trees. There is a small pond and a patio.

Large yard, pool, garden continuing to evolve--looks nice in the back, but the front needs work.

Lots of veggies for fall canning

Vegetable garden on a hill...Raised borders cut into the clay ...Square Foot Gardening method used with heirloom vegetables where possible

Moved into a new house. Some brunsfelsia/agapanthusse/cannanas and a few trees. Have a courtyard with pots in them They have to be refilled and replanted. Have to start from scratch because it there is nothing. Brought a few plants from the old garden but not nearly enough . I love roses and will try and establish a rose garden.

new garden started from fields of rushes but getting there slowly.trying bit of everything,would really like to do the permaculture thing.

We're building a garden from a scrap waste patch behind our cottage that the landlord was going to concrete. We're taking a very slow, permaculture approach because we've discovered that from where we're starting, we have approx. 6" soil which is a mix of waterlogged mud and heavy clay, onto the old, C16th cottage floor. We're spending little bits on the garden as and when we can and we're cultivating cuttings from local hedgerows and plant-swapping. Our initial plan is to cover as much of the breeze-block wall as possible with flowers and then build raised beds (ideal as I have spine injuries) from the rubble that we've pulled out so far, in which we can far easier manage the soil quality. This year we've had success with carrots; onions (bedford champion); lettuce (lollo rosso) raspberries; roses; cucumber; lavender; and various herbs. We have also introduced a laburnum as a standard and have a little patch of lawn chamomile that's struggling valiantly.

My allotment is on a slope, south facing, about 5oft long. i'm growing all kinds of vegetables and herbs, this is my first year there so i am an absolute beginner!

backyard

1st year of our backyard garden....very small, yet we had a great crop of tomatoes, peppers, green onions and lettuce. Brussel sprouts refused to produce any sprouts.

Three challenges are faced in this garden...the soil , the aspect and the slope. However , I have enjoyed trying to make something productive out of it and it keeps me busy! The front garden is pretty steep but gets all the sun ( and wind ). The soil is not too bad but thin in places with rock underneath. Mainly ornamental except for the small bricked area near the house where I get all my seedlings started and grow some edibles. The back garden is starting to look like an allotment according to my neighbours...their dining room window looks right onto it ( another challenge!). The soil there is pure clay so I have 4 deep beds and a hugelbeet with a few extra bits recently converted to usable soil by a kind of lasagne method. The house shades this garden almost completely in the winter but in summer half of it gets most of the sun available. A large area of flax stops the garden from falling down the gully and is home to 3 chickens at the moment.

Tillie's flowers and birds January - September 09 entrance, front, and south side is all cement moss roses, begonias, ferns, zinnas backyard is 15 x 30 with another litte rock extension on the north side morning glories, moon flowers on the fences four o clocks and zinnas in grassy area marigolds, zinnas, moss roses, sweet asylumn, honeysuckle in garden area marigolds, trumpet vine, morning glory vine in rock area bird pictures start in January with the hawk - gold finches in March - cardinals and indigo bunting in April

back yard

Predominatly native intermixed with flowering perinnals for colour and picking in beds around spacious lawn areas. Lots of bio-diamanically grown vege gardens, citrus, combined with many areas of reclaimed unused council land now accomodating a large range of heritage and compainon edibles. Every space is used to provide unsprayed healthy free food that is also pleasing to the eye and most importantly generates a sense of satisfaction in our children.

Margaret and I live in manufactured homes that are very close together. We combined our spaces to create one garden.

Backyard was nothing but old pasture, dirt & rocks when I moved..... Very discouraging, but with much work... it's starting to turn into my 'Dream Garden!!...

hosta's, day lilies, roses, ferns,

We recently purchased a country acerage with great "bones" to build our dream garden.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that..

Garden a 40X160 ft garden growing a good deal of what we eat.

No money - no garden. Love to have a beautiful garden full of trees and flowers

This garden was 10 years in the making.

Small yard in heritage district with full sun in a few areas, but attempting some colour in the shadier areas.

A garden was created out of a plain grass lawn a year ago. My aim was to create a place of peace and tranquility so I planted white flowering trees, white flowers and shrubs.

private family garden, contains specimen plants, and takes a lot of work... hostas, fuchisa, roses, climbers, monbrieta, acers, etc

Eight year old, one acre country garden in North Canterbury. Mostly planted with cuttings and seedlings from friends and an emphasis food production.

large 1/2 acre section just starting with it

First Zantedeschia Pentlandii flower grown from seed. 2 years. Seed kindly supplied by a national bulb-growing / propagating / selling company without charge to me. Isn't it beautiful! Zants are my favorite flower aside from Gloriosa Rothschildiana/Superba, but I have no luck with them. Wild and weird abstract collection of plants mainly grown from seeds & cuttings. Climate Zone Summer Rainfall, Winter frost. Soil Type acidic loam to clay to well-drained. North-facing slope, between high walls. 24 square metres. See others at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4285&id=1457234328&l=2fc912be34

~A Garden for Fairys & Angels to Dance in~

A suburban jungle undergoing a transformation into a low maintenance garden.

I have just started creating this garden in between getting my own landscape horticultural business up and going.

Informal garden with lots of Thorn trees, Leopard trees and wild olives. The garden does not have much sun, so I grow mostly clivia, forest bell bushes (Makaya Bella), a lot of ground cover and a few herbs (lavender where the sun does shine), Tea tree, bay leaf, lemon, chillies. A few standard rose bushes also seem to survive out front.

A Large garden on the banks of the modderriver in the freestate. My garden has lots of roses in formal and informal planting. Part of the garden is a wild garden with only indigenous plants.

My entry in Bloom 2009 was made up of small garden designed with a thirty something year old single person in mind who has bought a home and not an investment property. The main aim of this garden is to show that a limited space and budget should not restrict what you can put in your garden. I achieved this by using elements that you would expect to find in a large rather than a small outdoor space. The garden would be situated in a new housing development with residents located on all sides. The vertical planting scheme, along with the pergola, provides cover for the person within the garden. Both of these elements also help to enhance the view from outside the space. This is a garden where they can sit after a day in the office and read a book or just relax.

Mostly indigenous. Planned by proffessional. very casual.

it took near 10 years to turn pasture land into a native garden

Our first

Formal and clipped garden with topiaries, edgings and hedges

mainly palms and cycads, floor covered with pebbels, some antique stones and clay pots, beneath the trees.

Mix of vegetables, fruits and flowers.

backyard with swimming pool- just beginning.

My house is in County Clare, in a little spot called Doorus, next to Lough Graney. I have 5 acres of land but 3 of those are meadow. It is all very damp as I live next to a bog, with my husband. He has been associated with horticulture all his life and I have always been a gardener. We have mostly mixed beds with a core of shrubs and perennials plus some annuals for colour. Cosmos do particularly well and dahlia. We have many bulbs, tulips and daffodils plus others. We have a large contorted willow in the front lawn. A stream runs down the land when it rains, but soon dries up if it ever stops raining. My husband grows vegetables, gladioli and the annuals from seed. We love our fresh vegetables. When we moved here, the front garden had been laid out with walls with plants in the tops of them. We have added several beds.

A garden of food self-sufficiency, flowers and chickens still under development.

A small townhouse garden with roses, lavendar, water features, etc. In the little backyard a raised vegetable garden & deck is planned!

I don't have any idea to grow roses and buganvileas... any one can give me a hand with this?

My garden is grown from cuttings and plants that I generously collect from friends and family. I do not have a planting plan so the garden planted all over the show. I do not have gardening "rooms" but would love to incorporate that at some stage. This spring was the best my garden has ever looked. Still waiting for a garden bench to put under the massive tree in the front garden.

1200m2 1/2 lawn - informal, Have two big coral trees - one front garden the other back. Have a small vege garden as well. Arums, Agapanthus, Petria creeper, Wysteria creeper, Jasmine creeper, Banksia roses, Galpinia trees, bouganvilla intense pink, Have a small earthworm farm, some crotons, Mock Orange bushes and ciggarette tree over birdbath.

Only experimental beds at this stage. 700sq metres of flat bare garden to plant this year - lots of ideas for 2011

Hodgepodge of ornamental plants.

An emerging farmhouse garden. All plantings only a few years old at the most. Continuing to plant and plan as we go along. Aiming to grow some shade and wind breaks but having problems with the drought and learning which species grow best in our climate and soil type.

Acres of woodland, a kitchen garden, formal flower gardens, and over 400 species of plants from around the world. Totally Organic: No chemical pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides. More information and photos on www.galeazza.com

dedicated to myself to dream and rest, and to work in it is a pleasure.

It's my place :)

Olive orchard, herbs and part with indegineous trees and plants. Difficult condition for gardening: the wind!

The front yard is a mixture of shade and sun. The house faces north and closest to the house I have had to plant shade loving perennials and shrubs. It has been quite a challenge to find plants that will bloom beautifully in the shade.

Still to create and start due to house and ground work. It will be full of flowers in spring and summer and rich of red leaves and berries in autumn and winter.

my garden is a small cottage garden with lots of flowers and a few shrubs. I also have a backyard with a lot of pot plant. flowers in my gaden are foxgloves, peoneys, delphs. lots of types of daffodils , dalhias and pot marigolds and lupins. Shurbs are bullidia, varegated elder and old rambling roses. The cottage was built in around the 1910s so olld fashoined plants suit with the odd modern plant such as a gum tree cut down as a shrub.

A garden with a pond 2 waterfalls and a 15 m stream , a green house a little bit of a vinyard , tunnel out of bouganvillas diffrent seating areas with a table under a canarien Palm. 4 years of pleasure to create a very special garden. out of the pools backflash "riverbed " we took the flow for the stream . Plants mi with mediterain, subtropical and succulentes/cactuss. 20 tons of rocks,tons of gravel for the path,30 tons of lava ashes(picon) . The garden is owned by Very special people that i want to say thank you for letting create me this garden. thanks for support. Chris www.flowerpower-lanzarote.es

Since our house is built on a platform on the side of Tenjin mountain, our garden has several small flower beds and many potted plants.

Home garden in Ilola, Vantaa. More pictures about project: http://www.kikaloo.com/html/puutarha_etusivu.html

My garden is like Topsy -it just grew. My main garden area is to the front and is mainly lawn and shrubs under Umbrella pines, with a Lime tree and a couple of olive trees. I have an Orleander hedge to the front - I have plans to turn the part in front of the house into a formal Italian garden. At the side of the house I have a pool side garden which is only in its second year and consists mainly of interesting shrubs and container plants. At the other side of the house is my olive grove and Orto (vegetable garden)At the front of the Olive grove I have planted a Pittisphorum hedge but it is not doing very well. I have lots of ideas, very little cash and less energy than I used to have so progress is slow!

Work in process

3500sqm of mostly clay and stoney soil. we have many spanish plants and some english, olive, almond, cherry, walnut trees, and oliander, orange ,roses,and lots of shrubs many climbers,marigolds,gladoili,blueberries,blackcurrants, and a veg patch, with onions potatoes tomatoes,beetroot rhubarb,carrots cabbage shallots,green beans lettuce pepino,and melons,not all at the same time,but very busy in the spring/summer.

front yard, bordering driveway - rock wall, two tiered garden

Love growing perennials and keep finding plants I 'have to have'. Finding spots for them gets harder every year!

1-acre sunny acreage garden with a surrounding shelter belt.

hobby and vegetable garden

About 130'. Rockery, huge willow, containers, many perennials, unheated greenhouse, some soft fruit, poor apple trees, holly, herbs, lawn, patio. Faces East.

A fine mixture of sun and shade; Flowers and herbs, created for birds and people

Welcome to the garden of our shop, we focus mainly on hardy orchids, hardy gingers and rare edible plants. I also have some nice Acer from Japan.

4 gardens in all - consisting of North facing walled garden, south facing lawned garden with flower beds planted to attract insects vegetable plot and unadapted field containing 5 cidre apple trees, a pear, two peach one walnut and and a couple of plum trees

my garden will be a self sustaining and environment friendly...

It is a garden with some English sculpture items (a stone statue, and a couple of bronze), with shrubs in the border and with creepers (mainly the lilac trumpet vine) growing up on trellises.

Ever expanding and changing, I have a shade garden full of perennials. I think I might be the hosta queen :)

Southwest facing - parching! Very dry and windy! All lawn - 75' wide - with beds either side of the stairs. Right side: sedum,oat Grass, primrose (if it comes back). Left side: irises (including three pretty coral-colored German ones, 7-foot lilac bush and on the left property line: 2 potentillas (one will have to come out) and one spirea. Want to plant roses in left front bed. Also, there is a lone peony on the right side in a hole I dug (not a bed, but needs to turn into one). Also in the front, there is a beautiful, but aging weeping birch - need arborist - a golden elder bush that needs pruning at least twice per summer - and a large May Day tree. I am not great in the planning stage, but will do my best this LOOONG winter.

a mess lots of water in spring and dry in summer

I have a garden divided into two zones; one sunny area and one shady area. The sunny part is what people first see while walking by and upon entering, and the shady garden is more private, behind the house with roses on a pergola and high hedges around the edge of the property.

Small forest garden for the faeries, and backyard along the fence. 3rd season for wisteria, first season for fence garden. The faerie garden is ongoing, always changing as does the forest.

wij zijn bezig steeds met plannig, beplanting enz... :-)

Five raised vegetable beds with companion planting on the top terrace. On the lower level are mixed borders with perennials and shrubs, hardy mediterranean, testing anything that can put up with horrible compacted clay topped by gravel - drought-tolerant and quite successful. Linking the levels is a lavander hedge.

I'm planning on the first garden to consist of (in order of rows)... 1. Bush beans 2. Bean herbs (bohnen kraut) 3. Tomatoes 4. Lauch (onions) 5. Karrots with Dill mixed in 6. Onions surrounded by the veggi garden will be certain flowers, Marigold, Ringelblumen that help with the bugs and soil. On a second level (terrace) I plan to plant more Tomatoe plants surrounded by Lavender and Echinicea.

a neglected garden which i am slowly rescuing bit by bit

Lots of flowers that bloom at different times during the summer. Most of my gardens are very simple, more wild flowers than rose type gardens. I base most of my design on color and a cutting garden. The key to any good garden is to cut, cut, cut; it keeps plants healthy and blooming. Another important factor is the soil - always prepare your soil before planting. Love to work the ground, I think I am a farmer-girl at heart.

An overgrown wilderness of gorse,blackberry,weeds and 19 oak trees that we have planted

3 1/2 acres landscaped with trees, shrub and herbaceous borders, 400 roses of all types, 50 clematis, vegetable garden.

Patio with pots, and large sloping raised bed at one end.

My garden - my pride - my joy. Inland of southern Spain, 7,000 sq meters! and being washed away as I type. Have been working on my garden for 5 years and am so pleased with what I have achieved and also sadden by what I've lost, but it's all down to try and error. My garden is bursting with colour and is slowly spreading out into parts of the garden I haven't even started on. Never had a garden until I came to Spain.

This is a testament to effort and wish fufillment - side of hill very exposed very cottagee lot of edibles and just the best really. We have recently opened a garden store in Te aro - called grow from here - 2w1 Abel Smith st (between cuba and Taranaki-um

Small garden around our house in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Many cactus, palms and citrus trees, prolific bananas!

Most of my garden is made up of pot plants, I live in Australia and there is a big push for gardeners living in Australia to grow Australian Natives, but I have to say I'm not a great fan, I love to grow Orchids, Rhodedendrons, ferns, gardeniars, I like plants that have lovely flowers, but I also like the weird and the wonderful plants, unfortunantly we are in the middle of a very long drought and that makes gardening here a bit difficult, especially for me as most of my plants are very water hungry, I also have a very productive vegetable garden that my friends are all happy about as I grow so many vegies that I could'nt possibly eat them all myself.

Mostly exotic shrubs with a couple of australian natives and some vegetables and herbs

Small and compact packed with as many plants and veg as I can.

berrys, trees close to the wall, little Greenhouse made with rubish, vertical garden, Kiwi, Apple trees, wild salads, herbs

Mostly vegetables.

Small garden

Mixed, with accent on mums & dahlias

Mixed, with accent on mums & dahlias

An oasis in progress.

Orange trees, lemon trees, flowers, grass, roses

I have an oblong garden which needs a lot of attention. I started clearing flowerbeds last year that had been over run with weeds, creepers & left to its own devices, however Im new to gardening in the UK after living abroad much of my life & would love some ideas on improving it into somewhere joyful & pleasant on the eye. We intend to build a sun deck & add a gazebo in the summer. There are a number of trees surrounding the garden, so Im not sure where to start

Cottage style garden but needs to be able to endure extreme temperatures and drought in summer.

A plot of a third of an acre slightly on a slope. Hardly any shade, so pritty hard to keep things going when it is hot and dry.

My garden is so small like a baby. It will be getting better and bigger near the future. As the gardener, I am still a beginner. Please teach the idea with a good garden. Thank you:)

half pine and cork wood,a bit of almond,fig, olive and fruit such as nispero,apple, plum and persimmon, then orange grove at bottom alongside stream,mostly very sandy, high water table and clay 15 inches below sand.

Students of Oakwood Manor Elementary School, in partnership with Gladstone City's Senior Gardeners Project, engage in organic vegetable and flower growing to learn about plants, soil and water conservation, composting and recycling, good nutrition, and community service.

just a back yard forever in progress

1,000 m2 of plants, meandering paths leading to different areas, some secluded, some open, 1 freefall waterfall into hidden tank, 1 cascade into open pond with water Iris and other aquatic plants, future home for two turtles, some fruit trees, lots of pines for wind breaks, rose arches, several banks and benches for contemplation, small greenhouse - complete my little haven!

small garden with a few flowering plants , a palm & a cypress. Sufficient sunlight all through the morning during summer.

Butterfly and Amphibian friendly

Typical suburban UK garden

Eighty years ago this area was underwater and part of the bay.

Property is about 5 acres (4 Acres bush and subtropical rainforest. We have a variety of established fruit trees including mandarin, lemon, lime, lychee, papaya, ladyfinger bananas, Percimon, Nectarine, Mangoes, Jack fruit and Nashi Pear. There is also one lonely macadamia in need of some tlc. After living in town for the last few years we recently returned and started a veggie patch and herb garden. I am also a fan of pitcher plants although have only two varieties thus far. :)

A courtyard container garden with large cherry orchard and potager

Front Garden is a rose and Fir Tree Garden. Back garden is Herb and Various varieties, Long Garden Partitioned and colourfull.

The Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Arboretum supports an educational program designed to prepare students for careers in all the major horticultural disciplines, including landscape design and construction, nursery and greenhouse management, sustainable urban agriculture, floral production and design, turf management and arboriculture and aesthetic pruning. Of special interest are the Permaculture Demonstration Garden with more than 100 fruit trees, perennial and annual plants for food production, companion plantings and herb collection; a collection of more than 500 Mediterranean, South African and Australian specimen plants as well as a large collection of California Natives. For additional information see: http://www.merrittlandhort.com/

Bulbs, Hosta's, Perrenials, Some shade, Some sun, Black walnuts on neighbours yard, Raised vegetable beds, Large maples, Evergreens, Huge lilac hedge and fish pond.

Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street presents a wide range of gardens and collections that illustrate an ever-widening diversity of plants from all corners of the world. Distinctive gardens define and celebrate our Western identity and a unique high altitude climate and geography. Many of our innovative gardens are models of drought-tolerance and showcase native and adapted plants that thrive in Western gardens. Throughout Denver Botanic Gardens, the time honored traditions of European horticulture merge with a dynamic diversity of plants and design that represent the best in horticultural achievement. Denver Botanic Gardens has opened the city's first publicly accessible green roof, located above our new Offshoots at the Gardens bistro. The green roof is the first of its kind on a city-owned building in Denver, and is a highly visible demonstration of the many benefits of green roofs for communities and for building owners. Source: http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/our-gardens-york-street

renovated sloping berm with a variety of mixed perennials/shrubs, and trees.

It's a modest summer cottage garden with some flowes, apple and plum trees. The soil is originally sand but we have brought clay for flowers.

I have several different species of plants. Mostly things I love that can grow in our zone. I do have a design certificate in Landscapes.

Herbacious borders, greenhouse, raised beds and award winning hanging baskets.

My garden in the backyard is large with lots of roses and perennials. I enjoy putting in some annuals as well and like lots of colour. Last year I removed several large rhodos from my front yard as they were looking messy and they are not my favourite even if I am the one who planted them many years ago. I was able to recycle most of them by placing them at the end of our driveway and over a couple of days they all disappeared. I enjoy gardening and especially now as I am retired.

Different roses of all colours. Flowers the bloom for long periods of more then once,preferably perinial.

1 ha allotment in northern Helsinki. I grow berries (currants, strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries) and some summer vegetables...

We have 8 acres - half in native bush which we're trying to restore, and the other half in orchard, vegetable garden and grass, with large bushes and tress on a sloping north facing hill.

Country Style Garden on 10 acres. Mainly growned from cuttings and divisions in the last 4 years.

Front yard and back yard

new garden, bare plot, rock and some clay

Veggie garden planted in containers

A wilderness of weeds, narcissi, and container grown vegetables!

Our garden is a mixture of sub-tropical, roses, vegetables and traditional with mostly flowering shrubs.It is divided into two with mostly sub-tropical round a swimming pool and other more traditional plants in the other half. The garden has all day sun.

We have a trials and display garden in Kilkenny Ireland.

terrestrial orchids and bulbs

Now I begin to make my garden. I want to grow fruiets, vegitables, and flowers. But I don't have enought time... so it will be slow. I want to learn about gardening!!

I have old trees therefore plenty of shade, three ponds, a Fuchsia growing area and a Rose garden. Other interests : epiphyllums, tillandias, ferns and feeding birds. Not much lawn.

My Garden has very little grass left as I keep needing more room for plants!

A small garden with the shady stuff alongside the house, the sunny stuff against the far wall, a small pool and a huge palm at the back. No space for vegetables, although I want to get my sons interested in growing them!

tiny shady garden, with fish pond, decking, gravel shrubs, herbacios border, small fruit patch & bird feeder. Iplant with a trowel & shoe horn. Front not touched yet, side bank 5' by 30' over grown with brambles :- this ears project.

New Renaissance garden on the grounds of a sixteenth century hunting lodge, a short distance from the walled city of Lucca in Tuscany. 8 garden rooms with formal hedging, fountains, a 16th century grotto, see "A Garden in Lucca" as well as www.agardeninlucca.com

Surrounded on two sides by tall hedges. Rather heavy soil. Lawn and flowers mainly although we do grow a few veggies too. Puppy and grandchildren 'help'. We have a playhouse and swings

Very small garden but it has the sun all day long

Robinsonian style garden with mature trees shrubs and herbaceous plants, fruit trees, rock garden,vegetables and greenhouse

Am trying to get a cottage feel in the garden.

I grow heirloom vegetables as well as flowers, herbs and fruit trees.

2 years going now and was hammered by latest winter,. but now back to blank cavas .

A peaceful planting with stormwater runoff as the main focus

Community garden in a former inner schoolyard. It is a green oase which is used by the artist who live and work now at the place.

ca 3/4 of an acre in the foothills of the serra de Calderão 30 km north of Faro. Fruittrees, a vegetable patch and a growing collection of plants for the mediterranean climate, including many succulents.

trying to grow organic vegetables but the soil is poor and would like a much prettier garden full of flowers but I get too much sun and too much wind. at the moment i´m growing broad beans, lettuce, onions, leeks, artichoke, trying to grow spinach and fennels but these last two are not doing very good.

Out the front we have many trees and flowering shrubs- one side we have the veg and herb patch- the other side ( sunny side) has the Verandah with exotics and hanging baskets. The back garden is mostly lawn with wild borders

My garden is very wet which presents lots of difficulties. I also have rabbits which eat everything. I garden by trial and error and love surpises when new things come up that I haven't planted. We are surrounded by trees so in the summer it feels lush and green. I love wild flowers. We have primroses, celandine and wild orchids in the spring and foxgloves in the summer. My gardens has odd soil but is seems to be very fertile. It is neutral in pH but is comprised of clay, loam and alkaline peat.

My garden is small, front and back. 18 months ago it was a builders tip and whatever shrubs there were were smothered in ivy and cats claw. I am building it up from scratch, sweetening a wretched clay soil with as much compost as I can afford. These dreaded rains have drowned a lot of my young plants so I have to rethink everything in the face of the oncoming winter. Drat!

We live in a Mediterrian climate but the garden looks more like an Englishh garden. We are also on a very shallow well which makes our garden scheme even more questionable.

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Cyprus trees. Clivias, Delicus monstera. amarilas, azalias, Hydrangias

I grow flowers and vegetables... I look for things that will survive the hot summer with sometimes drought conditions and severe winters!

Iturraran Botanical Garden is in the middle of Pagoeta Natural Park, in the municipal term of Aia, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Northern Coastal Spain. It has a surface of 20 hectares, from which 15 are gardened. It is owned by Gipuzkoa's Council and it's open to the public (free access) all year round. It has representative collections of Quercus, Acer, Magnolia, Cornus. But also many other plants, from trees to hardy perennials, up to 5000 different taxa, including species and cultivars. The local weather is quite balmy, Z9, we are not far from the sea, which means not too severe winters: the drawback is all the wind, which sometimes can be quite troublesome!. With only 3 gardeners as permanent staff, our garden style has to be quite wild!. When you visit, please bring the machete and forgive us the brambles! :)

planning to grow veg growing flowers from seeds in greenhouse

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When I bought my house I inherited a wonderful yard with many mature trees and shrubs. I'm working on adding lots of bright beautiful flowers. I love the idea of good fresh healthy food just outside my door so I've been adding raised beds for fruits, veggies and kitchen herbs. I have many excess plants and shrubs as well as rasberry and strawberry starts. I'm always up for plant swaps. I'm still a little green at gardening and would enjoy the insights of other gardeners trying things out in lovely Portland.

I am doing edible landscape at home and veggies at the community garden. One can never have enough garden friends.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mostly perennials, a work in progress over 10 years. Lots of hostas & day lilies.

This is a new garden started in fall 2007. Most plantings are from my back yard. Again, this garden is mostly perennials but I add bulbs for the spring.

A beautiful sedum. I just love the way it grows in such a perfect mound. Great for full sun & can tolerate the drought and clay condition that I have here.

My angel guards the autum sedum and wisteria. Behind the birdbath are lavendar and Russian Sage. Next year I will plant sedum on the other side of the backyard because they don't seem to mind the clay so much.

The first summer of our project. The raised bed lets us avoid problems of heavy clay soil and poor drainage.