This is a shade garden in the heart of Hot Springs Village. We moved here a few years ago and have gradually planted the surrounding land. My favorite are the hydrangeas my daughter sent me. I would love to change my hydrangeas to a bluer shade - if anyone has advice on how to do this, that would be great.

A tiny organic patio garden full of edible flowers, herbs and vegetables. The trailing ground veggies live in hanging baskets and I am training them to hang off the eves. The plants also provide shade for my apartment in the hot sun.

A tiny organic patio garden full of edible flowers, herbs and vegetables. The trailing ground veggies live in hanging baskets and I am training them to hang off the eves. The plants also provide shade for my apartment in the hot sun.

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.

A mix of flowering shade perennials, seasonal bulbs, annuals and a crazy shrub or two as well as planters with herbs and annuals. Townhouse front-yard garden with a bricked edge. Our garden where our kids really get to "dig in".

Our Garden is enjoyed in the front yard with shade to full sun. We have raised beds and in ground. Our backyard has a koi pond and full afternoon sun. Both raised and in ground perennial gardens.

This Garden was added 3 years ago. This has been a wonderful year with everything in full bllom.

It's full of shade and full sun plants.

Our gardens range from a rock garden border with English style plants in the front yard. To a full shade bed in the side yard. In the back we have our water garden with fish pond and along the back drive we started a perrienial butterfly garden. I love to plant perrienials and watch them grow each year. I love variety and have everything from old fashioned larkspur to modern asiatic lilies. I also love wildflowers and have tried my hand at a few. Last year we added snakeroot and it was beautiful blooming in June fast spreader also. I love creating places of interest and beauty. Always a work in progress our gardens are a fun way to teach our two kids.

We have east exposure, so our garden is very mixed climatically. We have some areas that are extremely sunny and dry and others that are partial and others that are full shade.

Cottage Style Garden with fish pond and lots of perennials. We have it with various areas, ie. dining area with bar, campfire area, courtyard and walking area. Some areas ful sunlight, others full shade

It used to be lovely and then no matter what we did the grass started dieing and drying out. The flowers burn because the sun is too hut and there isn't any shade. The veggies are thriving!

My quiet bit of heaven away from work and the city.

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

North/east facing patio, 10ft by 10ft. On UVIC family housing. Tiny but mighty, I have about 20 non-stop begonias, blooming their hearts out, also 4 white impatiens, some kenilworth ivy, a couple of hardy fuschias and some corsican mint, mixed in with other annuals that can handle the shade. Great lil garden for kids, as nothing is toxic.

My garden is a mixture. The vegetables are grown in raised beds throughout the backyard with full to partial sun. I also have edged the garden with fruit trees, grapes and arctic kiwi, and I have a shade perennial garden that is fairly natural woodland. I mix wild strawberries in amongst the perennials and try to make my garden bird friendly. It is a totally organic garden complete with waterfall, stream and pond. We plan to add the mediterranean feel with stone pizza/bread oven and deck surrounded by herbs. My latest addition is the start of a butterfly/hummingbird garden.

A range of full shade to full sun. Some raised flower beds, displaying a mixture of shrubs, tree, perennials and annuals. A bridge and dry river bed adds interest to the front yard, and a pond enhances the back yard.

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.

i'm a recent horticulture technician graduate and finally have a yard of my own!

100X100 lot using lots of themes and plant material. Xeriscaping,water,grasses,shade,english beds, roses,oldfashion beds,tropical, and vegetable. This garden was created 3 years ago.

Native Garden located on the grounds of Burnaby Wildlife Rescue. Native Plants are important as wildlife habitat. If you are lucky you will see Rufous Hummingbird, Tree frog, or even Red Painted Turtle. Tread lightly! Enjoy quietly for the sake of recovering birds. Excellent facility always active with volunteers. http://www.wildliferescue.ca/

I have multiple gardens and lots of giant evergreen trees. A variety of bushes and many many sq. ft of flowers I have all types of sun from full shade to full sun.

My Garden has raised beds and a greenhouse. I have herbs, veggies, seeds, friuts and berries, flowers, grass and hedges. Full sun and Full Shade. A bit of everything. We use NO chemicals or commercial fertilizers. We compost. My kids and pets play everywhere. It's not always at its prettiest, and I neglect it sometimes, but it's mine and I love it. I get to share my bounty with family and neighbors, and growing my own food makes me feel good. I also have a greenhouse and started trying a technique to smother weeds with newspapers and cardboard this year...liking the results! When my kids are bigger I expect there will be even more to offer.

cement patio with plants in/on pots. very hot during the summer. do not have much shade. not here in winter but am for late spring, summer, autumn and then it is mexico. want to know what plants i can plant in oct/nov before i leave for when i get back and plants that do not need alot of water and not only cactuses. it is quite cool here in the winter. very rainy and damp0...

Several varieties of hostas. Cora Bells, ferns, solomans seal, rhodadendrons,Astilbe, and foxglove. Dogwood tree above it.

We have a small orchard, perennial gardens, shade gardens, butterfly gardens, vegetable gardens, wildlife gardens, fruit gardens and we're always adding more. We have a large place in the country and many variable conditions.

hosta's, day lilies, roses, ferns,

A family garden for a Children's home in Teopisca, Chiapas, Mexico. In a sheltered area below mountains. Sun and shade. Sometimes very rainy, otherwise must be irrigated. Need to feed 26 people or more!

Very low maintenance, mature, coastal garden. We love it. Birds, bees, butterflies, frogs toads, snakes and fish love it.

Just now getting serious about my garden.I have quite a bit of land to work on I also have several fruit trees already, 4 Avacado trees, 2 Guava,1 Navel Orange tree,a lemon tree, 2 lima trees, 2 peach trees and lots of shade trees. Alot of cactus plants. It rains quite a bit during the summer months. I want to start a vegetable garden, so I´m starting to prepare the design and the land. wish me luck. I will send pics as soon as I have them.

I have a terrace garden of fruit trees on my roof and shade plants (colored foliage) in my yard.

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.

Mostly indiginous with English style flowers mixed. Open grass and full flower beds with a number of trees. Not a big garden, middle of the range. Some areas are in full sun but most in shade.

Our backyard is huge so we have everything from full sun to full shade. We have avocado, guayaba, naranjita, mango, papaya, lime, mandarin, orange and plum trees. We also have tons of flowers and lots of shade plants. The garden overlooks the El Fuerte river so it is a very peaceful place to relax.

Pino Suarez 373 C2 Condominios Loma del Mar Emiliano Zapata

A large cottage style garden that rambles through fruit trees and shade plants as well as concentrating on perennials and ornamental trees in the more open areas.

My garden begins with a traditional style hacienda entry full of potted and hanging ferns, succulents, miniature palms and inpatients to add color. Rounding the corner is a park like green with potted succlents under the windows and hanging from the 5 mt. coco palm. We have 12 meter x 1.5 meter fish pond with three waterfalls with lotus and water hayacinth as well as fairy lilies and 30+ fish. Next is my flower and vegetable garden grown from seed and treated organically. The backyard pool has natural rock with ornamental grasses, tiger liles, succulents and wild daisy and 5 majestic palms. More grassy area leads to an oversized fireplace with plumeria, vine roses and various shade plants. On our rooftop we have a fire pit with cactus garden. We've tried to create a space for everyone and to take advantage of the entire area....it's LOVELY.

I am new to Belgium in a older home with a walled back yard & little sunlight!

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

Our Garden is Evergreen with a little bit of this and that no real rules to it, but I rather like succulent plants. The garden is also very open not too much shade so the plants have to be hardy.

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

Small vegtable garden 6x6 small alpine garden... 2 years old English style garden and shade gaden in backyard small flower garden along interlock walkway. Many small projects to still complete. Less lawn more flowers :))

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.

Due to the strong sun for many months in my country, we need green cover and shade. However, I attempting to slowly create a drought resisitant garden - due to lack of water resources here.

I have a cool garden with lots of flowers and crawlers.

A Victorian Built in 1876 On a busy downtown street. Long and narrow A huge Maple as old as the house dominates the front line. So I built 3 stone terraces and planters out of New York Falgstone and filled it for vertical privacy like so many flower baskets. Good variety of perennials and annuals make it interesting all year. Bridle wreath Spirea mixed with Rho dos, small evergreen bushes interspersed with berginia and a variety colorful annuals.

Established yard that has become mostly shady except for small front yard. Pond, fruit trees, and lilies.

My backyard is tiny with full sun, and my front garden is full shade with a maple tree. So both have their own chalenges.

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.

We grow whatever the salt winds allow

Avant Garden es un jardín urbano ideado por atelier le balto, una rosaleda de carácter salvaje, un jardín compartido por visitantes, creadores, paseantes... un lugar de convivencia e intercambio, de aprendizaje, disfrute y reposo. Avant Garden es una metáfora del proceso, un gesto que multiplicar y transformar y una plataforma desde la que investigar para proponer hábitats sostenibles a través de proyectos relacionados con la permacultura, que tienen lugar a lo largo de todo el año. El último domingo de cada mes (12.00-14.00 horas) se organizan talleres para el cuidado del jardín, enfocados a indagar y profundizar en el concepto y la filosofía sobre la que atelier le balto diseñó el jardín.Abiertos a todos los públicos.Plazas limitadas.

Our Yarden is South facing, but despite this, is in full shade most of the day. The high walls and bank provide most of the gloom, the rest is contributed by the house. All this enveloping shelter notwithstanding, the concrete square [resplendant with oil tank] is subject to fierce salt and sand laden sea breezes. A favourite haunt for the local tribe of ferral cats, the annually replenished container soil is a welcome addition to any natural kitty litter areas. Once the power washing has been completed in the Spring, and the last of the Winter's unidentifiable green scum removed, it is safe to venture outside and attempt to brighten this hard working space for the summer months. Alongside the minuscule shed, kick boxing bag, guinea pig hutch, clothes line, kayak/surf boards/bikes coal bunker/storage bunker and patio set, we like to grow some plants.

Stunning black and white Oriental Poppies in the bed in front of the house. I excitedly planted the purple variety, Patty's Plum, on either side of this one, but they don't compare in exuberance, at all. I plan to move them to the western bed to be tucked in next to some day lilies to hide the dying foliage, and receive more shade. Hopefully that will enhance the purple in the one remaining Patty's Plum. The purple colour in full sun has been a disappointing shade of puce. (One plant-loving neighbour even suggested she would refuse to have it in her garden. That's pretty bad!)

06/09 - side bed, dappled sun to full shade in the middle. A work in progress to see what is happy here.

The overgrown look. Honeysuckle on the arbour, the tree is a loebernii magnolia. The foreground shrub is a beauty berry. Lungwort (pulmonaria), hostas, a couple of azaleas. A bit of a difficult spot as the bed gets full sun for about 3 months of the year and part to almost full shade the rest of the year. The lungwort burn a bit in summer but look amazing in the spring.

This is a collection of herb and spice plants that we grow for cooking purposes and beyond

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.

UC Marin Master Gardeners, partnering with Falkirk Cultural Center and the City of San Rafael, created several gardens on the Falkirk grounds to demonstrate various low water use and habitat plantings consistent with Marin’s Mediterranean climate.

The beautiful gardens adjacent to the Alhambra fortress feature abundant and varied flora and stunning water features. The particularly outstanding garden is that of the Generalife with its lovely Moorish patio of La Acequia and the patio of El Cipres or of La Sultana, that mixes Moorish and Renaissance features. There are further terraced gardens in Italian style where you can see the Water Steps. The rest of the Generalife gardens are laid out using cypress hedges - not used in Moorish garden

my garden

My husband and I wanted a garden that was beautiful and productive. We built 17 raised beds for fruit,vegetables,perennials and a touch of art.

Small veggie garden - peas, tomatoes,beets, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, turnip, melons, a variety that changes each year - 11 ft x 12 ft space only.

Front and back yard are all mine and slowly I am weaning my hubby from his beloved but totally useless lawn. I recently planted 4 Saskatoon bushes in the front of my house because I am sick of everyone getting to the berries before me! Today I planted two Highbush Cranberry bushes and I am really excited about watching them go through the seasons next year...yummm...cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving next year!

A two-level garden rising from the ground to cover the building and reach toward the colorful flowers hanging down from the roof.

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

The Harvest Inn's grounds are showered in tulips of every color combination. The flowers, vines and hills in the distance create a lovely setting.

Birmingham Botanical Gardens is Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants in its living collections. The Gardens' 67.5 acres contains 25+ unique gardens, 30+ works of original outdoor sculpture and miles of serene paths. The Gardens features the largest public horticulture library in the U.S., conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and Japanese Gardens with a traditionally crafted tea house. Education programs run year round and over 10,000 school children enjoy free science-curriculum based field trips annually. (Source: http://www.bbgardens.org)

Sir Harold Hillier Gardens has a magnificent collection of over 42,000 plants from around the world - come & visit. http://www.hilliergardens.org.uk/

Rich soil, huge space. We are in the early phases of planning our garden.

The garden is constructed from easily transportable and reused materials. The eight 2-by-4-foot raised beds are made of plastic milk crates connected, filled with soil and covered with thin sheets of wood taken from shipping pallets. In addition to the milk-crate beds, spinach and radishes grow in far lighter 6-inch-deep mini beds made from plastic bread crates. The garden also hosts eight pots of hydroponic tomatoes, grown using a soilless, recirculating water system. Reclaimed wood was used to build a petite greenhouse on the garden's periphery. There is a homemade bin full of worm castings, and a compost barrel sits on a set of runners so it can be spun to expedite the breakdown process. (Source: The San Francisco Chronicle)

In the late spring, the garden is a fragrant froth of lilac, and the box-edged compartments bloom with de la Renta's beloved tulips: the fluting White Triumphator and Queen of Night, its pursed petals a velvety purple-black. In the heat of high summer, vast, headily scented gardenia bushes are trundled in their terra-cotta pots from their pampering greenhouse sanctuaries. (Source: http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Dec_Oscar_de_la_Renta/)

A front and backyard that are best described as a work in progress. Through the last two years we have torn out a patio, removed some trees, installed lawn, and recently added a play structure.

The vegetable garden is raised beds with some fruit shrubs in ground. It is fenced to keep animals out. We use cow manure and compost. I also have 2 flower gardens, one raised bed and 1 in ground with mostly perennials and a few annuals.

Bountiful beautiful borders and waterwise landscape.

In Southern Alberta we get LOTS of sunshine with not a whole lot of moisture. Hence, when we get a chance to grow a garden we grow lots of corn, zucchini, etc. The garden is about 100' by 30'.

Small square in our front yard filled with vegetables... and love. Currently we have corn, pole beans, kale, shallots, snow peas, zucchini, tomatoes, assorted lettuces and sunflowers.

The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets. Section 1 of the High Line will soon open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park. (Source: thehighline.org)

On March 4, Mayor Gregor Robertson announced that a portion of City Hall lawn will be converted into a community garden. The idea to grow local food on the grounds of City Hall is the first “Quick Start” recommendation to come from the Greenest City Action Team. This announcement is a symbol of the City’s commitment to develop 2010 community garden plots by 2010, as an Olympic legacy.

The Community Garden is located at Edith Morley Park, 615 Campbell Technology Parkway. The approximate ½ acre garden site has 39 - 10x20 garden plots. Community garden plots are available for Campbell residents who want to have a garden to plant vegetables, herbs or flowers, but don't have a suitable site where they live. Plots are issued on a year-to-year and first-come-first served basis, with a limit of one plot per family. There is a $30.00 annual fee. This covers watering costs and upkeep of the garden. Currently, there is a waiting list. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact Diana Johnson at (408) 866-2145 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 3:30 PM Monday thru Friday, or email gardens@cityofcampbell.com .

A garden planted by 5th, 6th, & 7th-graders at Campbell Middle School with the assistance of a community volunteer working in partnership with the Citizen Schools after school program. The onions are doing the best...

The mini garden with its enviable Downtown skyline view has mint, basil, chives, onions, dill, lemon sage, oregano, majoram, three varieties of tomatoes, lavender and rosemary. (Source: http://blogdowntown.com/2009/06/4446-giving-urban-gardening-a-try-at-the-bartlett )

my little patch of city yard transforming itself from grass to a landscaped sanctuary with beauty and food in mind.

I have had a variety of gardens in a variety of rental homes in Vancouver, and I hope to have my own land for veggie-growing one day. Currently, I garden in a space on the property of my apartment building where the landlord kindly let me dig up the grass to put in a few plots and a compost, which are now enjoyed by a few of the tenants in the building. I am very interested in getting to know other gardeners in Vancouver who have come up with creative ways to garden without land/backyard space...

I have four, raised, square-foot gardens (three are 4x4; 1 is 2x4), one in-ground square-foot garden (3x4), one Earthbox, and one Garden Patch Grow Box. I also have some peppers growing in front of my house (in-ground).

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

The royal forest that was made world famous in the tales of Robin Hood.

My first large garden in-ground (not pots), a few various sized beds in the backyard.

Located in the city of Miami, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden has a mission: to save tropical plant diversity by exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants; fundamental to this task is inspiring a greater knowledge and love for plants and gardening so that all can enjoy the beauty and bounty of the tropical world.

This 4.5 acre botanical garden is a showcase of orchids, tropical plants and trees, a Japanese Garden.

This was a garden that was on the edge of the bay. We had raised beds with dahlias, irises, and daylilies, a Japanese Maple, and lots of dune grass. The tidal marsh would flood our yard once a month, so all plants had to tolerate the salt very well. Lots of plants died, and it was a trial and error process to figure out what would work.

10 by 20 foot plot in Seattle's original community garden.

A soon to be fire escape garden...I'll post pictures as it grows. Fow now enjoy some nice pics from a recent hike!

Backyard garden with Veggies and Herbs.

The Desert Botanical Garden is an oasis in the middle of the torched outskirts of Phoenix, AZ. Here, you can stroll through its paths, exploring all the fascinating species of plants that thrive in a climate that will kill most. Explore and learn about cacti in this beautiful place.

The Rocchia garden is informal, romatic and creative. Set deep in evergreen forests beside a small river, it is full of lush growth. It is functional in its simplicity, with a grapevine of white Hungarian grapes that yield enough to produce a modest number of bottles each year; a very healthy herb garden; a bog area with hostas and white iris; and a wildflower garden next to the river. There are yellow loosestrife, daisies, evening primroses, California poppies, verbascum, digitalis and hollyhocks. (Source: Mick Hales Gardens Around the World)

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.

Ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire, this garden is on a small plot of land on Appledore Island. It contains poppies, sweet peas, hollyhocks, niotiana, lavendar, larkspur, foxglove and white rose rugosa roses.

Called L'Ecurie, this is the garden of Thomas and Iris Vail, publisher of The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

We've got a backyard plot behind a small garage, exposed to full sun the majority of the day. It's about 20' x 13' and we're growing a decent variety of herbs and vegetables.

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

Three years after we moved into our townhouse, we discovered we had green thumbs! Who knew? So, out went the grass in the back and front yards. In went every conceivable plant, herb, vegetable and flower we could squeeze in! Gardening has changed my life!

Mostly veggies in back with flowers in front

Gardening in the desert, like elsewhere, requires specific care and thought to: sunlight, watering, etc. The city of North Las Vegas appreciates this, and has thus created the North Las Vegas Desert Demonstration Garden. They have over seventy-five different species on display. They also supply great information on how to water your desert garden more efficiently.

my garden is always changing, lots of colours, textures and scents. i live in the valley of kamloops, across the street we have cactus, sage brush and the odd rattle snake. it is very hot and dry here and can be very cold in the winter, it can be quite a challenge to find and keep plants that can make it through our climate changes, but as all gardeners, i love the challenge. i loved the english country garden my grandmother grew, so that is the main theme of my own garden, as well as mixing more heat tolerant plants. i must say that morning glories, foxglove, and lavender,look soft and soothing beside the large exotic caster beans that flourish here. we have different varities of tomatoes and peppers, most veggies do very well here. lots of perenials, bulbs and corms. i'm trying to downsize the amount of baskets and containers i've had in the past because of how hard it is on the plants to keep any kind of moisture. bigger containers may be the answer i guess!

Bramasole is the famous estate of Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. Mayes describes the restoration of her estate and the gardening she does there in several bestsellers. Mayes was a proponent of the locavore lifestyle long before it had a name, advocating eating fresh local produce (either grown or bought in town) and eaten in season. Bramasole produces its own high-end olive oil for sale.

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 is Wulf's Victory Garden. Location is near Waco Airfield & Museum in Troy, Ohio. I grow from seed cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and other edible stuff.

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!

We have an acre of land with 10 gardens. The winters are long but we still manage to grow lovely flowers and shrubs......

growning tomatoes in the upside down hanging baskets, and strawberries, cucumbers, and herbs in containers.

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

First time square foot garden, 3' x 8'

squarev foot gardening/mainley vegetables

This is my first official vegetable garden.

I have a 6' x 20' plot on a slightly sloping area in my yard. When the sun decides to give the rain a vacation, it will shine on the garden from late morning until late afternoon. The western side of the garden has a split rail fence with chicken wire against which about twelve vigorous tomato plants are quickly maturing. Beans and peas are also growing at the north end of the garden and are graciously supported by the fence. At the southern end a cantaloupe and a few watermelons plants are reaching outwards into an adjoining flower bed. Cucumbers, onions, peppers - sweet and hot, and zucchini contend for the limited space in the garden and seem to care little for the mossy bricks laid down for stepping stones. Lettuce, spinach, radishes, mint, and eggplant battle for the remaining space. The lettuce has already yielded many delicious salads and is promising much more throughout the season. At the northern end a mystery lilac tree grows, tightly knit with two other as yet unidentified flowering bushes, and provides shelter to a lone artichoke experiment. The name 'Trouble Tree' is inspired by my father. When I was very young, my dad would come home from work each day and devote just a few moments to leaving his frustrations from work at his 'trouble tree.' Touching the leaves and appreciating this simple miracle allowed him to shed the stress that often followed him home. My garden functions in much the same way for me on a daily basis.

I have no grass on my front lawn, just a mixture of all kinds of flowers from lupins, shasta daisy, monarda, day lillies, all in a rainbow of colors. My back garden is tamer with raised beds, roses, holy hocks against the house, clematis, and morning glories climbing the fences

Our new garden is a large front and backyard with many rose bushes and grass. I am hoping to plant a small vegetable garden and a kid-friendly area so I can teach my kids how to garden. I plan to stay as organic as possible. The main problem is the weird and wacky weather - apparently we sit at the windy edge of a ferocious fog bank (see photo). It's sunny, except when we get engulfed by the fog. The fog bank is present through most of the year.

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....

The Ruth Bancroft Garden is an exceptional example of garden design and a collection of water-conserving plants. he Ruth Bancroft Garden 2.5 acres (10,000 m²) is a dry botanical garden containing more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to Africa, Australia, California, Chile, and Mexico. In 1989, it became the first garden in the United States to be preserved by the Garden Conservancy, and has been open to the public since 1992. The Garden began in the early 1950s as the private collection within Bancroft Farm, a 400-acre (1.6 km2) property bought by publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft as an orchard for pears and walnuts. In the 1950s, Ruth Bancroft brought home a single succulent, an aeonium grown by Ms. Glenn Davidson. By 1972, the collection had outgrown its location and was moved to its current site, then an orchard of dying walnut trees. Today the Garden is an outstanding landscape of xerophytes (dry-growing plants). Garden collections include: aeonium, aloes, agavaceae, Brachychiton rupestris, Brahea armata, bromeliaceae, Butia, dudleya, dyckia, echeverias, Echinocactus, hechtia, Jubaea chilensis, Puya berteroniana and P. chilensis, Xanthorrhoea preissii, and yuccas. (Source: Wikipedia)

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.

My flower garden is a mixture of different perrenial plants some of which are 6 roses, 2 peonies, 2 group of daylilies, a magnolia and more. My front garden is similarly beautiful both in the spring and summer. Just watching my plants grow and produce fragrant flowers make my day complete.

fish pond and flower gardens

Since we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.

My gardens are maninly perennial..........I have a particular garden that is of all Wild Flowers and it really is the backdrop to a beautiful front yard.

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!!!!

A vegetable garden in the front, some flowers and trees for the landscaping, a work in progress, just like any other garden.

My garden has all the plants I love and more. Almost anything grows here on the coast. So I love to experiment. Make my own hanging baskets of impatients, these grow well in the shade that is my front yard and the deer don't seem tpo like them. Have a deer sprayer in the backyard because they just love roses and hostas.We totally redid the yard about 3 years ago and it's still evolving.

Just starting out in a new home with a blank canvas so it's a work in progress!

Since we moved into our townhouse, we have experimented with growing fruits & veggies in our south-facing, full-sun garden. There is not a lot of space to work with but we have been pleased with our yields, from swiss chard to strawberries.

This garden has been in the making since 1989 and has had to adapt to increasing shade. It is mostly a perennial garden that keeps changing all spring, summer and fall. After daffodils and tulips are done, each season is dominated by one or several showy perennials: peonies and penstimon in June, lilies and shasta daisies in July, dahlias and phlox in August, asters and chrysanthemums in September. Every season also has minor players like coral bells, astilbe, delphinim, foxglove, lady's mantle and many others. I look for a range of colors and textures My preference is for flowers that are suitable for cutting .

This garden is on a city lot located on the West Coast of southern British Columbia in Coquitlam~ It is a small urban garden with perennials for sun and shade, native plants, vegetables and herbs, and a large deck garden with funky pots, a water garden in a half whiskey barrel, and potted shrubs and trees. The garden is is located on a plateau several hundred feet above sea level, although the ocean is only a few miles away, so it receives torrential down pourings of rain in the winter, AND spring, AND fall. And it also freezes for at least some of the winter. Snow and prolonged cold spells have become common in the past few winters. In the summer, the climate is hot and mostly dry for one to two months per year, and the heat can come on very fast, with no transition time which is hard on the plants, and the gardeners. Other garden threats here include children's feet, soccer balls, and my husband's four wheel drive wheels.

work in progress....back & front gardens

2008 was first attempt at gardening here. 2009 was exciting to see what returned in the perennial beds. Sun exposure ranges from full to no sun. Definitely a work in progress :)

Just your average garden in progress.

Large sloped berm garden in the back yard, where we had to fight the wild Himalayan blackberry encroachment, and a small full sun garden in the front.

All sorts of Veggies and Herbs! Tomatoes to pumpkins! Lots of recycling going on in my Garden! Visit my garden here!http://jennsgardeningspot.blogspot.com/ & http://recyclinggardenmom.blogspot.com Im also on Twitter @4bratz2luv

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 first time gardener at best. Who knew gardening could be such a joy. My little slice of heaven aka plot is located in a community garden and measures 10' x 20'. Its strictly organic, I swear by sea soil and fish fertilizer.

The Santa Fe Community Gardens organization and Railyard Park have come together to create the Railyard Acequia garden, which will be on the south end of the park and will include 19 plots. The Waffle Garden will be a demonstration of traditional agricultural techniques. Designed by the Santa Fe master gardeners association, this garden will harvest traditional crops. The crops will then be donated to the local food bank. They need volunteers, so if you're in Santa Fe they'd love to see you show up with your garden trowl!

I love gardening,I find it very relaxing & peaceful!!

i grow herbs indoors and outdoors in containers. i can't grow anything else otherwise it would be stolen by rats

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.

www.charleston.org.uk The home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and a centre for activities amongst the Bloomsbury Group in England. A stunningly beautiful house and garden.

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"

Flowers

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.

My Garden is very eclectic. It is an English garden with garden trinkets hidden among flowers and foilage.. there is rocks and creeping jenny, creeping thyme and sweet woodruff. My garden dazzles the senses!

first bed in new location.

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.

I enjoy pushing the limit of our region and like the unusual I travel out of the area to buy different thing and am trying my hand at bonsai

Backyard backs onto Conservation area and hasn't been touched for 7 years. After buying the house, we are slowly getting through it but its mosquito territory!

Raised beds on sandy soil. It started with three raised beds and I added anohter larger bed at the back for my corn or sprawling veggies. Only real cow or sheep poop used to continually amend the soil.I grow a variety of stuff each year. Last year I planted my "Franken-garden" which included purple carrots , rainbow Chard,black Krim tomatoes,and red and white striped beets. I was really hoping the kids would be more into veggies..but , alas...it was not to be.The looked at these special veggies on their plate with the same disdain that they give more ordinary fare. So this year...I'm just using up seeds left over from the past couple of years and the rabbits and ground hog is loving it. The only new thing is the peanuts which is just not heard of here in Ontario,Canada. The ground hog has ripped all but two out.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden/ The home and garden of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson

Front, back, side and patio gardens, a fair amount of shade. Flowers (working toward mostly perennials in the beds), some herbs and a vegetable or two.

Just starting

Sustainable gardening means, no pesticides. I like a dwarf lilac tree, and had a great time with a bunch of poppey seeds from Pender Island (2006). Our view over a tree covenant (habitat protected area) of many interesting native species trees, bushes la la la means outdoor enjoyment with multiple facets.

This four-and-one-half-acre garden is set in the midst of surrounding forest. Within the garden many micro-climates exist. More than 250 rhododendrons set the stage for complimentary plantings in both the shade garden and sunnier beds. The summer garden is a drought-tolerant collection of perennials shrubs and trees. Meandering woodland paths connect the 100% organic garden beds, providing a serene walk and a sense of spacious tranquility. Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=23&IDEvent=260&SortBy=&State=

This is the historical lake in Chandigarh India. Many people visit this place every day.

that is my personal garden

Awaiting first harvest of the season

bleeding heart,

I grow Veggies, Flowers and Fruits. Right now my hollyhocks are about 8 feet tall, if I don't get out soon my weeds will catch up.

Water Feature Garden

small garden slowly changing from cottage to a more formal design

This year I planted mostly veggies that I can use to make baby food for our 8 month old and meals for my husband and I. So far things are growing great. Tomatoes, Cucumber, Spinach, Herbs, Pumpkin, Squash, Beets, Peas, Green Peppers, Carrots and Strawberries.

Our gardens, in various stages of development.

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

Large lot garden with fenced yard,pond and garden shed. Multi color flowers(perenials) and shrubs, roses and rock borders, one small rock garden. Space for dogs and cats and children, and anyone who likes to weed.

We live in an 1940 log house on 4.5acres, originally built from trees on the property by homesteaders on Gabriola Island. Some of the trees and flowers are here from the 1st owners, some new. The property is a mix of native species forest (fir, maple, garry oak, arbutus, yew, cedar, pin cherry, alder); meadow; fruit (apples, plum, apricot, peach, blue-, straw- and raspberries); specimen trees & shrubs (japanese maples, liquid amber, mock orange, forsythia, lilac); perennial flowers & vegetables. We have a fenced (from the deer) area around the house with raised beds and lots of rock walls and stone paths. Water - or the lack of it - is our main issue. We have no lawn and I cut the meadow grasses with a scythe. We see ourselves as stewards of this property in which we want to encourage as much of the native species as possible. We work with a forest gardener to manage the treed areas (thinning dying and dangerous trees, planting new ones). We have a naturally wet area on the low point on the property and want to restore the it as a wetland with native plants and trees. Our property is home to many species of insects inc. butterflies and bees, birds, snakes, tree frogs, deer - and we have planted species of flowers especially with them in mind. We try to grow heirloom varieties and have had heritage chickens in the past. This year, for the first time, I am attempting to grow mushrooms by inoculating alder logs with white oyster and shiitake mushroom spawn.

This year we added a pond.

trying to reclaim a beautiful garden spot which has been neglected for awhile.

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

Sunflowers, early corn, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, zuchini, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, acorn squash, all in rows going east to west

This is the 1st year I could grow a garden again. We just moved back to IL after being in MS for 10 yrs. Nothing grows in a garden in MS, it always burns up! I had little hope I would get a good yield but my tomato plants are higher than me! (5'2") Been picking beans for 3 weeks now too, I'm in canning heaven!

A work in progress with outdoor living as well as bushes and trees in all colors, flowers second. It is a southwest facing fairly windy site with loads of deer and jack rabbits. The birds are great- they love certain plants as well as the feeder and bath.

An experiment to see how many tomatoes I can grow in between the surf gear on my balcony.

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

zen like stylings

4 Patio Tomato plants as well as 4 ColorBell Bell Pepper plants

Gardening is a whole new game when you get to growing food! I dream of homesteading someday, but at the moment find that I'm almost completely out of my depth with just one raised bed and some potted tomatoes on the deck.

This is an organic container kitchen garden in the heart of an industrial neighborhood. The Gowanus Canal right by my house has been nominated for priority Superfund status, so lately, I've been dealing with issues about soil toxicity and what that means for my compost, my greens, and what I should and shouldn't eat. More at: http://precisionaccidents.com

at the moment, I have a few planter boxes on balcony, flowers and tomatoes. plus indoor plants, not many atm, broken arm

Lots of sunshine, very windy.

We have frontyard flower gardens and backyard vegetable gardens.

My garden is in St. Petersburg, FL with four types of tropical bamboo. Hanging from the bamboo branches I grow all types of orchids. It is a paradise in the works. I love it and so do the birds!

This is the 6th year for my roof garden. It is a work in progress as I experiment every year with different plants. This year I have tomatoes, peas, herbs, flowers, grasses and 4 small trees.

Just starting to make some gardens haven't in years

A mix of vegetables and flowers

This is the place I relax instantly. It calms the nerves immediately. I can't imagine life without it.

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.

I have been collecting hybrid and everyday lillies for a few years. I love going to the We're in the Hayfield Now lilly farm in Orono for their open house in July. Among the lillies I have three types of Coneflower.

For 15 years, this garden has been an important resource in improving the safety and quality of life in this Bedford-Stuyvesant community. A local elementary school and several families are currently involved in the maintenance of the garden. During 2004, these residents raised funds to support the site's use for gatherings, workshops, and as a learning garden by neighborhood school children. Target is generously supporting the restoration of the garden and selected nationally acclaimed garden designer and horticulturist Sean Conway to provide the garden design. Since 1998, Conway has helped to create the garden centers in Target stores and also designed the gardens at the Target corporate headquarters in Minneapolis. He has also been a frequent guest on Martha Stewart Living and is the co-executive producer and host of Cultivating Life on PBS.

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.

herbs, vegetables, perennials, some things we don't want (nettles, dandelions, too much oregano)

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.

Over 30 years old. Some of the foundation trees were removed this year. No pics yet

An experimetal garden of sorts. I'm pretty new at this so join me on my journey. -N

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

There are several gardens around my home. Some in full some, some in very little sun and some in a good mix. The majority of plants around my house are drought tolerant and in full sun. The areas which have little sun contains lots of different hostas from small to huge! I have been here for over a year and half and am finally starting to get a handle on what is a plant and what is a weed. Having lots of fun!

Just a bit of everything that will grow.

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/

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 live in the desert so I'm having a hard time growing anything.

TONS OF FLOWERS, PERENNIAL & ANNUAL. SASKATOON BERRY {3}, TOMATOES, YELLOW BEANS & HERBS. SMALL POND W/ PUMP.PATIO,HAMMOCK AREA AT BACK . NO GRASS AND 6" FENCE WITH LATTICE ALL AROUND. VINES ,CLEMATIS,MORNING GLORY,ROSES,STRAWBERRIES. LOTS OF JEWEL TONE COLOURS WITH SOME WHITE FOR NITE. FRAGRANCE FROM STOCKS,LAVENDAR,ROSES&NICOTANIA. LOVE TO GARDEN, IS MY PASSION .....

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

our little bit of heaven ... in our own backyard. anything we put out to die in the "back 40" seems to grow very well

I started gardening 5ish years ago when I bought my house, The yard only had some pathetic looking Lilacs and had a driveway all the way thru to the alley.I rototilled and started digging and planting,I really had no idea what I was going to end up with, but so far Iam very pleased with my work.I planted a bamboo tree and it is in it's 3rd season, I madea gazebo out of a neighbors satelite dish and it has various vines growing over it.I had a real problem with portulaca so I put down weed barrier and have shovelled 16 yards of gravel out.I separated the gravel from plants using rail ties.I have just finished putting in the upper tier to my pond(an old stock trough)and have alot of tweeking to do to get the waterfall right.Iam always happy to be in my yard doing something, as I rarely sit,when I try to a weed or something that isn't quite right will catch my eye.

Due to our desert community we have our majot color gardens in the winter. The ever green part of our garden is low water maintanence. We have seasonal color plants for the summer.

Found a great tool for my garden -- my iPhone! I used Eden Garden Designer to plan and plant my real garden. it's easy and I now have a great, tech inspired herbaceous border!

Large area... just starting out.

Veggies are full to bustin this season also lots of flower and herb gardens on the property !!

5 year old garden that has been nurtured from being back lawn to structured, compost fed, mega production beds.

Villandry is best known, at least abroad, as France's archetypal potager, a kitchen garden elevated to a regal plain and Frenchified to the maximum, with its seemingly endless geometric parterres edged in immaculately clipped boxwood. This, at least, is the impression I had of the garden before I visited. In fact, the potager forms only part of what in fact is a painstaking and loving restoration of the gardens of a Renaissance château, fraught with romantic symbolism and amenities--or agréments, as the French would call them, features designed for pure pleasure. The potager, for example, is punctuated with numerous latticework gloriettes, or gazebos, whose curved form provide great intimacy to those within as they gaze upon the softly splashing fountain before them. The moment I saw them, I thought of them as lovers' bowers. (Source: FrenchGardening.com)

My tropical garden is in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico and sunshine is abundant. The banana trees are my favourites, bending low with fruit. Lime trees, sour orange and mangos. A tall papaya tree bends over the roof. Avacados are growing so well this year. Next year I want to put in the Koi pond and fountains.

Two tiered gardwn with a combination of perennials and annuals. The patio is pavers coming up to the base of a large water fall and pond under a maple tree in which the bird feeders hang. Each morning the birds wait now for feed and enjoy feeding while we enjoy coffee. Morning coffee with the birds is even better than reading the paper.

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.

my father and i built these gardens. it all started from a chinpmunk named charlie.. then we built a 10x10x10 birdhouse. then it just grew into many gardens ..every year we add on this is our 3rd year. remember we are both dissable, dad (72) with heart problems and me (44) with kidney failure. plus we are not carpentures . dad loves the roses they are almost every where you look. me i just love being in the dirt playing.. always moving and reaarraging plants.. i have some wild pansys that just come up any where and every where. my dad would always pull them out . this year i had too put my dad in a semi-home.. with his family in nanaimo so i send him pictures all the time so he won't miss them growing. thanks dad for doing this for me it gives me something to do whike i'm waiting for a kidney... i love you and the garden... and i hope other people will too. ive already had the newspaper come around too see and people coming over too take pictures... happy gardening...

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.

A little raised bed garden in the open sun. Has a little of everything growing from flowers to vegetables; annuals to perennials;common to rarities.

Less than 2 years old right now, 2009. Never met a flower I didn't like. Love the colours and smells of a flower garden. Love to watch it grow and bloom.

I have 4 mature maple trees in my suburban garden, so I have lots of shade plants, especially hosta. I also love lilies and coneflowers so I try to find the rare sunny location in my garden for them.

Mixed Vegetables, a few flowers,berries a little on the wild side. We manage to supply a lot of our own seasonal vegetable needs.There is always something new

My lot needs work.

Backyard

Beginning a relandscape project of almost one acre. Goals remove large front lawn area and replant with California natives and water wise plants and also just update the look. I have no formal training but hope this remake will provide me with lots of experience.

Summer vegetables mix with zinnias, cosmos, dahlias and marigolds in this backyard garden. The keyhole design is centered on an arbor covered with iceberg roses and a teak bench that looks into the garden. Not so formal when the chickens are loose!

My garden is in the Guanacaste providence of Costa Rica. We over look Playa Hermosa and here in this part of the country lots of things grow as we are in the tropics. That said, the plants here also have to be drought resistant as for about 6 months of the year there is no rain.

The garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite) In the summer of 2009 we started a small "Farmer's Market" on the church parking lot. We also harvest and sell to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away. The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets. DOUBLE CLICK THE IMAGES....

my garden was made for all the little animals,birds and bugs that live in this world. After all we do live in their world and from my garden I get my ideals for alot of my art work.

On partly wooded vacant lot, somewhat hilly, with spring, overgrown and lots of poison ivy, has been used for informal dumping. Ted Zerger (Salina, KS) says, "find the worst lot in the worst neighborhood and that will make the best community garden." Well, this may be the worst lot in the neighborhood, but it is really a great urban neighborhood, mixed housing stock, nice diversity of income, education level and ethnic/racial origins. And the potential of garden partners with neighbors, nearby churches and businesses, elementary school, high school -- an ideal place to "pioneer" like Johnny Appleseed. Anyone know the origins of the P-Gardens in Seattle?

We have a small flower bed in the front yard, and a medium sized vegetable garden in the backyard. This year we have sunflowers, yellow/green beans, tomatoes, green onion, radish, lettuce(3)varieties, carrots, beets, zuchinni, cucumbers, turnips, pumpkin, and peas.

We have just under 6 acres. Over the past 3 years we have been cleaning up the yard, putting in trees and bushes for shelter,and planting flowerbeds that require next to nothing for maintenance. So far maintenance wise we have been successful. I weed all my 4 flowerbeds and vegetable garden in about 2 hours total a week. Not bad

Organicaly grown vegetables.

We have a variety of microclimates in our gardens. Soil is rich river loam supplemented with compost on a yearly basis. Perennial and mixed borders throughout. Vegetable and Water garden also on site.

lots of flowers and want more mostly perennial

I have built 4 4' x 12' no till raised beds 22" deep for vegetable growing. I started with a layer of well rotted manure, a layer of composted material, then a layer of leaves, grass clippings, etc from spring clean up. Plants were started by pulling back the mulch, then moving the mulch around the plants as they got bigger. Potatoes just came up through the leaves and have grown roots into the composting material. I seldom have to water even though it has been a very dry year as the mulch prevents drying of the soil. There have been minimal weeds and good plant growth. I planted roughly based on the square foot gardening method, but I do not have permanent grids. One planter holds 48 hills of potatoes. We have eaten some and they are doing well. This fall I will cover each bed with a new layer of leaves and plant into the previous layer of mulch next spring. Trellises help use less space for things like cucumbers, peas and pumpkins and you do not have to bend over to pick peas!

Mostly perrenials..some potted plants....no grass..

I grow many herbs and have a big vegetables garden. I've just started collecting roses a few years ago and have about 35 different ones. I also have a pond that I made bigger last year.

Overgrown!!! Rhodos, roses, fruit trees container gardening, tomatoes, lavender, herbs, and anything the deer or sheep don't eat

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

Opened to the public in May 1999, Les Chemins de la Rose is a 4 hectares landscaped floral park in the heart of the Loire Valley. Its creation was motivated by the desire to respond to the expectations of visitors who came to Doué la Fontaine, the capital of rose production in France. Before the park's creation, visitors could only buy roses, not view them in a natural setting. The park is planted with more than 1 300 varieties of botanical, old, and modern roses. In all, there are more than 13 000 rose bushes. Trees, shrubs, perennials, clematis and its famous lotus accompany the collection and enrich the beauty of one's stroll through the garden. (Source: http://www.cheminsdelarose.fr/pages2/en-intro.htm )

Fairly young two year old perennial garden

I have a blank slate right now. Hoping to have sod in the fall with a few trees and shrubs. The yard is only a year old.

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

Bog, rock, and overgrown thistle, what was once a garden( I think) will be again, but improved, and , in time, will be a sight to behold.What is now , just moss, weeds and huge rocks, over time, and preserverence will be trees, plants, shrubs and beauty!

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

mostly perennials

Various shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vines.

I have a garden that is my retreat away from everything and everyone. It is mostly shade and it is continuous work in progress. My front garden recently lost a gorgeous blue spruce that went down in our Spring 2009 wind storm.I am having trouble deciding what to do in this huge space that the spruce left, so this site may be very helpful to me this fall as I try to create a new garden space.

150 SF of garden space in a combination of raised beds, self-watering containers and potato bins. I grow amazing fruits and veggies for my growing family. It's my hobby and good for us to boot!

Strawberries, veggie garden, perennial gardens.

We are the first community garden in Fort Smith. We grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers, but most of all, we grow friendships. We plan on starting an orchard this fall. We have just about completed our children's garden and are getting ready to build our own greenhouse from recycled wooden windows. Our composting area will be completely reworked this fall. We show movies in our garden and have all types of parties. We have our own firepit and kitchen area with a regular grill and a cooking pit. We showcase the arts and our artists. If you are in the region, come downtown to the garden. We're located at the corner of North 9th and D Streets and our gate is always open.

My garden is 8 year's old and a work in progress.

A garden that's gone wild & needs a major overhaul

My back yard garden is a little garden for tomatoes ,wax beans, carrots ext.I have shrubs and a couple of parianials in my back yard too.I planted trees and flowers in the fron yard too.I got bird houses and water supply for them and bird feeders in the front.I really enjoy my summers .

As early as 1980, When I would toss hay bales over the fence for the calves and horses that pastured on this hill, the beauty of the view would catch my breath. I would then take a few minutes and lean on the fence and just enjoy and dream of a beautiful garden. I could envision blooms of all colors. As I wound along the path of life, my dream began to unfold. I began in 1998, the hillside became home for many residents of beauty and many hours of enjoyment and contentment. It is tiered with 4 levels of trees, shrubs, flowers and berries in abundance! I have created my own private park! It hosts many visits from friends, neighbors, or people just wanting to enjoy the beauty. It is a garden of life, as time passes, the dream unfolds even more.

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.

Small Veg Garden!!! Corn, Tomato, and little of this and that

very small backyard garden that has a lot of shade. I have some plants in pots and some along the sides of my garage and side fence.

This is my first garden since my last attempt at gardening which was way back in pre-school. I planted the flower seeds in early May and the vegetable seeds in mid-May. I am so proud of my two watermelons and cucumbers, but I need to be more consistent about watering my garden.

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

My garden started out as the horse pasture and the rest is history. That was back in 2000 alot has grown since then.

Roseraie du Val-de-Marne or Roseraie de L'Haÿ is a garden devoted to roses established in 1899 on rue Albert Watel in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Val-de-Marne, France. About 8 km south of Paris, it was created by landscape architect Édouard François André and rosarian Jules Gravereaux (1844-1916) and claims to be the first ever garden dedicated exclusively to roses. Laid out in thirteen formal sections, today Roseraie du Val-de-Marne has a total of 13,100 rose bushes featuring 3200 species and varieties. The garden has modern French and foreign roses on one side, the formal rose garden with a reflecting pool in the center, and the old garden roses and classic roses on the other side. There is a dark red, hybrid rugosa rose bred in France by Commandeur Jules Gravereaux (1901) named Roseraie de L'Hay. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

Versailles is the most famous garden in the world. Yet 'garden' is scarcely a fitting designation. The scale is monumental and there is little sense of enclosure. Versailles was designed as a palatial centre of government for an absolute monarch, Louis XIV. It is resplendent as the prime example of the French Baroque style, but it is not a friendly place. 'Overbearing' is a common description and English critics have often been disenchanted with the place. Walpole saw Versailles as 'the gardens of a great child' (H&T). Avenues project from Louis XIV's palace towards distant horizons, enfolding town, palace, garden and forest. There are imaculate parterres, great basins, an orangery, a vast collection of outdoor sculpture and some of the grandest fountains which have ever been made. The park and garden were designed by Andre Le Nôtre between 1661 and 1700. There are magnificient features: huge parterres, an orangery, famous fountains (which operate....), rich bosquets (ornamental groves), a 1.8 km cruciform canal. The Grand Trianon, another formal garden, was built on the site of a former village. Versailles also has later additions. The Petit Trianon was given to Marie-Antoinette in 1774. She favoured the irregular style, with hills, rocks and streams. The Hameau was designed in 1785, as a stage village, for Marie-Antoinette to play with her friends in the idle years before the French Revolution. (Source: GardenVisit.com)

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.

My yard is located on the Ridge overlooking the South Saskatchewan River. Full Sun in the backyard (South exposure) and for periods of time in the rest of the yard....perennial and shrub beds...no vegetables.

Garden for the kids and mommy, lots of kid friendly veggies & fruit and sweetpeas for mommy

A few scattered plots around the property with one large main plot.

Our oasis

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.

my garden is like an old english garden part shade part sun with sun at different parts of the day

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

I envision this 13' X 14' piece of land to be my little urban farm. We only took possession of it the first of Aug, so I have until next spring to plan. Until then, I have my wishlist. Any feedback is appreciated! 2010 Wishlist: Sunflowers Tomatoes of all kinds Summer squash Lettuce Greens Green Beans Broccoli Asparagus Sweet Corn Garlic Sweet Peppers (Red & Green) Butternut/Acorn Squash Herbs: Basil, thyme, cilantro, oregano, sage, rosemary

I should start by saying that everything you see is in its first year of a new location. So far, I have three gardens. One is a mixture of phlox, echinacea, rudbeckia, and autumn joy. This one is at the front of the house, and between all the plants, has wood chips put down over landscaping fabric. Because I moved, I managed to get everything moved over, but not much has been done to it yet. The plan is to put in more sedum for sure, but beyond that, I'm a little unsure what to do. My second garden is all different types of hostas, with a bit of lilies mixed in and a bit of echinacea. This one is along the side of the garage. It's not the sunniest of areas, which is why i went with my hostas. I have over 12 varities of hostas. I'd like to sometime in the future put down landscaping fabric and wood chips. I'd also like to find a way to mix more color in. My third garden has a native grass, sweetgrass, some exotic echinacea, dahlea, hydrangea. This is the smallest, but I have the biggest plans for this space. The goal is for this area to be my own little oasis. I plan again on the wood chips, but I have beautiful blue slate that I want to lay down. This particular project is planned for next summer! I moved back in June, so I transplanted all of my plants, so my plants don't wow me this year (and a lot of my echinacea were seedlings that came up), so I'm hoping next year with no shock of being moved, things will look much lusher, filled in, and more plentifu

We have a work in progress. Going to be a major expansion this fall, since the perennials are trying to break out!

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

perrinial garden and fruit trees

Beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumber, turnips, beets, carrots, radishes, onions, potatoes, lettuce, pumpkins, green peppers, zucchini, cantaloupe

Our backyard garden consists of a pond, rock garden, flower gardens, BBQ area, gazebo sitting area and a large area of grass for our grandchildren to play. Accents are done with items collected from my home farm such as wheels, logs, etc.

I am an avid gardener although I can't say I'm good at it yet as I am still experimenting with everything in my garden. I like planting flowering plants at the front garden and combination of flowering and vegetable garden at the back.

I have two water garden, one above ground and one in-ground. I am always changing things.

My garden is still evolving as i want more planting space. Right now I have two raised beds for vegetables that my husband and I built. We are planning on adding more next year because we love the taste of fresh food with no preservatives.

A labor of love built with my family & friends over the past 25 years! Anything that grows!!

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

Here are some pics of my bak yard. . .

starting a vegtable garden in Arizona.

starting a vegtable garden in Arizona.

I have always been brutally awful at keeping indoor plants alive but I believe in the principle of try, try again and I am hoping my children's love and help will....help! As a child my dad would sprout grapefruit seeds between paper towel and a glass, put toothpicks into carrots and potatoes and show me how they sprouted, and it was fabulous. I want to do this too but take it to the next level: grow them the full way with my kids so they can see that even indoors we can grow and eat our own food. My main challenge is being a north-south facing townhouse that I have, really, one good kitchen window with south light: my north window gets virtually no direct sunlight, even less in the winter. So, I figure we will stick to what grows relatively well indoors: container tomatoes, a bean plant or two, perhaps some carrots, our herb pot and, just for fun, I will take on the challenge of growing my own coffee.

Located on the Corner of Munroe Ave & Weedon St. I have a mix of everything growing from plum trees, apricot trees, cherry trees, apple, and pear. If you look closely up close, up you can see the variety of perennials and annuals all worked together in the beds. I have grapes;vine, morning glories, and hibiscus flowers, blue-hydrangea. I love to plant from seed and always have a display show for my drive buy audience that always stop and looks at my blooming showcase. I do grafting, and also like to start new cuttings. 2009-summer is not the greatest show. =Very Wet and not so much flowering this year.

My garden is small and a mixture of native plants and non-native plants.

I have over an acre of rock gardens.100s and 100s of rocks. It has taken me over 10 years to have a mature garden of giant hosta (300) and lilies of all varieties.(150) Other than slugs, I really am lucky,(touch wood) that deer and other pesky things havent given me too much problem..

My bit of paradise

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.

a community garden in north kansas city

Vegetable Garden with some flower surrounding the perimeter.

We bought a house in 2007. At the front was a porch that needed re-building, a narrow strip of earth enclosed by a cement wall that had presumably once been a garden, a cement walk, and grass. It was boring and not very "green". We re-built the porch with wide welcoming steps using Trex composite lumber and a railing of salvaged spindles. We removed all the concrete and grass. Instead, we laid a curved flagstone path, which allows drainage. We turned the remaining space into a garden, planted with mostly perennials, and centred around a semi-dwarf cherry tree we planted in memory of my father. The yard is about 17 x 23 feet, and it faces east, so gets early morning sun on all of it. But as the day continues the shadow moves from the house outward, so about half is a shade garden and the rest more sunny. All plants are easy-care, and we've incorporated a little companion planting (chives and alium near a rose bush, etc.), focused on native and drought-tolerant species, included wildlife friendly varieties, and mixed in a few edibles amongst the ornamentals. Compost enriches the soil, and leaves and natural wood chips are used as mulch in some areas. We've tweaked it a little since the initial planting in the spring of 2008, moving and adding a few things. But generally the garden is thriving, and we've received many positive comments about it. In it's first year, we even entered it in the "David Suzuki Digs My Garden" contest, and won an honourable mention!

Shade Hosta Garden, just learning all about Hosta's. None are named, but trying my best to name them.

veggy's and perenials combined

We are renting this place from a friend of ours who grew up at this house - his parents, and especially his Father, were awesome Italian gardeners. When we moved in, Tony, our landlord, told us with tears in his eyes how beautiful the garden was (it had been left for 3 years and was now covered in packed dirt and dandelions!!) and we vowed to bring it back to what it once was. We also have a greenhouse. You name it - we planted it and as it's our first time as gardeners; we've learned a great deal about soil, spacing, water/sun and patience!! We have the tallest sunflowers in the neighborhood because Tony's dad had them - now we do too - over ten feet tall!! We grow tomatoes, peas, onions(green&red), lettuce, cabbage, beets, swiss chard, strawberries, potatoes, radishes, carrots, green and yellow beans, many types of zucchini and squash and peppers, green, red and various hot ones. It's a very rewarding adventure !

Learner

Started it about 7 years ago and add to it every year.

"I think it needs more water..."

Part natural wild, part cultivated. Home of a sculptor who loves garden masks and hidden creatures. Also has 3 huge black walnut trees which shade the back.

I started a perrennial garden on our 3 1/2 acre beach front property 3 years ago: It currently has day lilies, butterfly bush, lots of rose bushes (mostly hardy and climbing), hydrangea, lilac bushes, irises, black eyed susans, clematis, Beebom, hostas, lupins, an amazingly pretty lettuce garden my husband made etc...Already on the property were several blackberry bushes, several apple trees, several cherry trees, several rose bushes many years mature, lilac bushes. Arch nemesis: Asian or Japanese knotwood I have been battling in side garden for 4 years and just tackled a 1/2 acre pf it in the lower field closer to the beach.

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

The Garden Around our house. Check out the garden blog at: http://gardenof1212gabrioladrivecoquitlam.blogspot.com/

Mixed flowers, shrubs and vegetable garden.

Backyard garden. lots of shade at the back fence due to large trees in neighbour's yards. Still a work in process

Garden is fully raised beds, apparently I am told this is the secret to my success. I am a new gardener, all are perrenials accept for a few herbs and peppers.

12 acre garden under construction

Fifteen raised beds for vegetables; patches of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, flower beds, fruit trees

For my ten years on this boggy bit of mountain land, my gardening has been driven by being an artist/sculptor, with just a small amount of food growing. I have a polytunnel with tomatoes,peas,beans, salads,some fruit and lots of propagation of perennials....and growing eucalyptus trees from seed. In these Peak Oil, Climate Change times, I'm now learning about Permaculture and Edible Forests, and am planning to turn my remaining acre over to broadleaf trees, fruit trees and bushes, nut trees, and bio-mass crops. A Huge learning curve! My info says full sun....this year it's been full-on rain like never before!

My garden is an evolving garden. I am learning what will live with minimal care and attention. I am moving to xeroscaping slowly as I do not want to water more than what I can do with the inground sprinklers. I have some amazing stuff during the spring but this year the gardens are laking some greens later on. I love my pink iris, this one I dedicated to my mother who passed away February 25 2009.

English garden out front. Shade ravine garden on west side and terraced mixed perennials down to the Madawaska River on South-facing steep hill.

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.

We have a terraced garden in our back yard built into the slope of the hill (2 tiers) and a garden along the front of our house. Primarily perennials.

My allotment plot at Rathbeggan Lakes allotments, Co. Meath

whatever kind of soil i have, it is great - stuff grows like a weed - hence and english style garden. Mostly sun, but shade at the end of my yard.

We have three large garden plots that were built from old manure piles. Our potatoes,carrots and pretty much any other vegetable thrive in these gardens.

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.

Ornamental and fruit garden focussed on bee and bird friendly plants.

Just a few little flowers in the back yard. I have lots of shade, so a lot of hostas.

I have a small backyard patch, this is my 3rd year attempting to grow it. It's small and I'm not a pro but i'm obsessed with it . My dream is to own a yard big enough that I can grow a full pumpkin patch. (a difficult task at best in Edmonton AB)

I have created a raised vegetable garden in order to allow me to work from my wheelchair. I have planted and cultivated radishes, beats, yellow-green-purple beans, peas, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, salads, onions, strawberries and rhubarb. For a 1st year garden attempt it has been great... the kids eat right off the plant as they run by. My wife has wonderful perennial gardens flanking the yard; irises, lilies, roses, lilacs and much much more.

Very slopey south east facing 1 acre site. Loamy well drained neutral soil. Roughly 3-4 inches of topsoil, parent rock is shale/limestone.

This gentle garden is a combination of flowers, herbs, vegetables and a patch of coastal rain forest. I believe in companion planting as an effective way to deter pests and hand weeding opposed to herbicides. Relaxed gardening is part of my method, you win some, you lose some. The important thing is that you have fun and enjoy the journey. Gardening is Life.

A small courtyard garden packed with many perennials, containers, some veggies and herbs. I have planted for continuos bloom, fragrance and to attract wildlife. It is a home to my two cats zoe and bee. They love to wander about scolding the birds when they come to the feeder. It is our sanctuary and respite from the modern madness.

The gardens sprawl through 5 of the 20 acres.I also have a small hobbie farm and the animals all tribute to the gardens.While my son was still at home (before he left for BCIT)had done some termendous rock work .Over 9 years I have added over 4 veggie gardens and 6 or so flower gardens.

we are trying to grow as many edibles as our family of 5 will eat. two big veggie patches filled with strawberries, cukes, leeks brocolli, cauliflower, beans, corn,tomatoes, onions, celery, carrots, salad greens, ppotaoes, peas etc

I have a mostly shade garden in a woodland setting. Lots of tree roots to contend with, but I like to experiment to see just how far I can push the envelope. I'm fairly new at this but completely smitten.

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

Rosebriar is a garden made up of various rooms. It is 2/3 of an acre in which we have tried to create a private, enviromently friendly garden.

Our garden is slowly taking over the entire yard, leaving trails for the kids to run and an ever shrinking lawn.

mixed beds, mostly sunny, some steep sloped and rock garden in need of constant rehab

My garden is the envy of the neighborhood.My garden is my therapy i recommend gardening to all

We're building our garden from scratch. The builder who reno'd our house removed every speck of topsoil so we are left with reddish sandy soild and a LOT of rock. Every planting begins by breaking the soil with a pick axe and then removing the stones, some of them very large. So far, we have made small holes to start shrubs around the border of the front yard and otherwise relied on herbs and other plants that will flourish in poor soil. Now we want to start extensive work on our back yard. It is a small-ish space that we need to use intensively so we will be removing as much rock as we can and amending the remaining soil to make it more fertile. We plan to espalier fruit trees and grow grapes and hops along our fences. We also want to integrate some vegetable gardening with perennial plantings. We hope to include a clothes drying green, a seating area and some decorative features into the space.

I am just starting a water garden. I am trying to rid myself of garden boxes and going to container planting.

a little bit of veggies, a little bit of fruit, with perrenials and small flowering trees

A large variety of perennials, annuals, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc in my front and back yard.

sheltered with an outdoor terrapin and goldfish pond. Sandstone paving, stone and gravel. A small inviting space with an admixture of perennial and winter interest.

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

I have 4 raised beds, a peach tree, a plum tree and 2 seedless grape vines and really weird grass in my lawn.

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.

Pretty much a blank canvas for me to fill this fall.

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.

My gardens are all around my house... in the front I have beds in shapes that compliment each other...close to my house in front and on the driveway side are small shrubs and perennials...in the back I have beds and along the back trees shrubs and perennials....I work in a garden center and love it..

Haphazard. Huge lot. Bought house 4 yrs ago and no landscaping. Work in progress. High water table. Might be in 5b. Aiming at privacy. Looking for trees. Big plans,not much cash flow. Love gardening.

We just moved to a new apartment. Eastern exposure, almost total shade, so the marigolds & Martha Washington geranium I brought with me are not happy! Neither is my succulent planter. So I guess next year, it will be lots of coleus (love coleus), impatients, begonias, ferns, whatever I find suitable, I guess. There's not even much light for my houseplants.

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!

seabreeze resort has a creek running through the property. 10 cottages, water front. Each cottage has its own garden. Horses in pasture. Greenery between cottages and campsite. Fruit, cedars and firs. Lots of rhodos. Tiered areas towards creek. Gardens are fragrant and colorful.

In 2006 we bought a "yard with a house attached to it" and in 2007 our Yarden was installed and growing. We now have 1700 square feet of organic raised beds, espalier fruit trees and various other interesting edible things. This is season three and this magical space has become a hub for parties, classes and community activity. Gardening really builds friendships! People are amazed when we share with them how to plant things, the importance of seed diversity or the simple joy of cooking what you grow. Every year we have more and more volunteers who join us for our planting party Memorial Day weekend and hang around through the season to see "their" plants growing. It has been a great experience. We will be teaching classes in the winter/spring of 2010 so others in Chicago can learn from our mistakes (ha!) and have their own back or front yard oasis. Check out our blog at theyarden.com or via our fan page on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. We are on a Yarden journey - join us!

First year of growing corn, cucumbers and squash in front garden - full sun. Very good crops. Back yard less sun but very good pole beans, carrots, strawberries, raspberries and broad beans.

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!

A reclaimed Blackberry patch with an orchard, pond, butterfly garden and plans for a small vineyard in the future.

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.

uphill..grassy...trees..plants..flowers..berries (rasp) fruit trees (pear) (apple)

Flowers and vegetables in my front yard; hated mowing grass. A work in progress.

Capitol Hill property is not far removed from the 203 metre top of the hill. The yard runs east-west but the slope is toward the south so the majority of the garden is full sun. 5 years in and I have amended the flower beds with about 30 yards of soil, reclaimed a parking pad, added and expanded flower beds. A couple more years and I should have eliminated the lawn completely.

In the back of my garden I have planted corn At the bottom of each plant I have planted pole beans. At the south side of our garden their are big boy tomato plants.

I have many flower garden even though I am a rookie and don't really know what I am doing.

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

under construction...

I've been flower and veggie gardening in this location for twenty years. Prior to that it was grow bags on the tiny back deck off the kitchen of our flat in Muswell hill, North London, UK. Our back garden is quite large and dominated by 4 enormous and venerable old cedars who create areas of dry shade, partial shade and dappled sunshine. There are some areas which receive about 5 hours of sunshine a day so they are where we built the raised veggie beds. The front garden gets more sunlight and is consequently drier. The soil in the back garden is quite loamy in most areas. The front has been amended over the years with lots of compost, the back garden too. We have three compost bins. I am an experimental gardener and garden organically. I haven't met a seed I didn't like and love to plant whatever seeds I come across. I am growing a persimmon in the front window. I also have a Cardiocrinum giganteum and Mecanopsis betonicifolia and other unusual plants. Happy gardening all!

Circle Y Farm includes rocky ridges, swamps, creeks, bottomland, forests, sunny locations, pastures, timberland, and more. All kinds of geography, with some in sun, sun in shade, and some in between.

Front yard decorative

Beautiful hillside garden along with borders and water features

Annual vegetables and some fruit trees and bushes

ornamental to the front with fruit and veg area to the back incorporating a play area for the kids

I grow container citrus, from seeds, and eventually from cuttings and through grafts. I have a balcony full of tomato plants, peppers, and herbs. I love my garden and the rewards of seeing it grow are inexplicable. Trying to get some lemon and lime trees started, but I don't know if they'll survive the winter.

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.

Varoius vegetables

Small backyard garden in raised beds.

Vegetables and fruits are grown here, along with sunflowers for the birds or squirrels.

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

a little of this and a little of that, area gardens wherever it looked balanced, alot of planting where ever the bulbs or seeds landed!

mixed mostly shrubs roses perenials 550 feet above sea level very exposed to elements shallow soil over shale good drainage sunny position the garden is 5 years old and everything is growing very well still developeing made two new mixed beds this year the holly trees are growing very well with a great crop of berrys this year i will show some photos later

Clearing weeds at the moment. newly built wall. More weeds than you can shake a stick at.possible delay due to kitchne extension.

Gaïardin is situated on a 3.5 acre with includes an old apple orchard, perennials, medicinal plants, herbs, vegetables and garlic.

I build it from scratch, create a creek to supply water faling in the pond & a creek from it to return the water underground to the top, add flowers over the year & change some once in a while

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

Front yard decorative. Changes with each Season.

My twin granddaughters and I have started an organic garden this year. This land has never been turned or nor has there ever been any chemicals on it. It has been a challenge to say the least. Nebraska is known for grasshoppers but we did pretty good. We canned over 200 quarts of food so we should be set for winter. By the way the granddaughters are 4 and it was their idea to plant a garden.

tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, squash, watermelon, cucumbers, green beans, purple beans, strawberries, asparagus, peppers, cilantro, garlic, basil, dill, corn. eggplant. I'm saving seeds to plant for next year. Also growing lemon seeds and apple seeds. Grapes and more.

Just want some ideas of what plants I can use that will repel rabbits, but attract butterflies and hummingbirds. I have butterfly bushes, lots of lily/bulb plants, magnolia trees, weeping crabs, cherry trees, asian apple, liatris, hostas, bleeding hearts, lavender and sage, along with lots of green grass. Any suggestions are warmly welcomed...

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.

Typical back garden

Vegetable garden that produces tons of Okra, squash and cucumbers.

large lawn area,topped by small area which includes the rockery.side area holds the walk in greenhouse and the rest is taken up by rhubarb site.

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

Over 36 beds with flowers, veggies, herbs & shrubs. Very informal with stone walkways edging most of the beds. I make jellies and herb breads with the fresh picked produce and we have a small market store at the property. Very much a spring/summer/fall garden with lots of color.

Lots of veggies for fall canning

A field which is slowly becoming an organic veg garden, pond coming soon. Compost area, and flower borders and lots of nettles

Aflower,vegatable and fruit grden with a wood to the west.patially walled and fenced.child and animal friendly.nearly have something flowering all year round and a wide variety of vegetables.

An eclectic garden in the Great Karoo - mostly indigenous and waterwise; vegetables, fruit trees and an olive grove.

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.

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!

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.

half acer in wexford

A lovely garden with flowers and herbs that provides the kitchen with food. Lots of butterflies and ready access to fertilizer.

small back garden - 16'x24' with timber decking base from back door, a flower bed on the right side, a garden shed on the top right corner, a veg patch on top left corner, a greenhouse on left side and a small green lawn on the middle... compact but cute...

7 1/2 acres of potential.

large balcony garden

Flowers for butterflies and birds, and lots of bee's.

Mom's garden has been neglected for several years. My brother and I have been attempting to bring it and the whole yard back.

Our garden is a classic cottage garden in many ways; it has flower beds but I have added succulents and more tropical exotic plants. It has a cherry tree, magnolia tree, apple tree and some NZ natives like a mature lancewood. I hope to plant more natives.

Established old trees surrounded by 5 years of garden transformation....Roses have been a passion of mine for many years! I have a variations of plants mainly for the vase and a bold display of summer colour. My garden has about 100 roses and has a collection of 30 + Bearded Iris's. This garden is always work in progress and every garden changes from year to year. It is a special place for me where many of my friends are with me as I have been gifted many plants from my friends past, presant and also deceased so it is My Little Haven where I am never alone and am always sharing a thought for or with someone special via my garden! Gardens are such a peaceful pleasant place to admire what nature has to offer and share with us, I choose to appreciate it as much as possible....

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.

Work in progress. Recently purchased.

I love ornamental grasses and pushing the zone. I have a palm, bamboo as well as fuschia overwintering in my garden every year.

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