Search Results for: Roses
Garden: Paula's Butterfly and Bee Garden
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.
Garden: Judy and Jerry's Arkansas Shade Garden
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.
Garden: Rose Side Garden
The direct Marin sun means these roses require little attention and flourish with just the smallest amount of time.
Garden: Jessica's Old Coastal 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.
Garden: Old Westbury Gardens
Old Westbury Gardens, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the former home of John S. Phipps, his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps and their four children. Completed in 1906 by the English designer, George A. Crawley, the magnificent Charles II-style mansion is nestled amid 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes. A side path has a predominance of bearded iris and foxgloves, with columbines and astilbes. Roses are on the walls and in the center of the garden.
Garden: Celia Thaxter Garden
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.
Garden: Kathy's Garden
I have many plants in containers, due to poor soil and rampant gophers. But I also have other plants in the ground, including roses, fortnight lilies and fruit trees. I love drought-resistant plants like Pride of Madeira, flax and ceanothus.
Garden: Villa de Flores
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
Garden: Bramasole
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.
Garden: Ross Ridgetop Garden
Completed in 2003, the garden is inspired by the hill towns in Italy. Structured but not formal, it uses well-water for irrigation and draws upon a color palette of "really good greens, butter yellow, sky blue, blush pink and white."
There are beautiful old oaks, but brought in olive trees, Italian cypress, boxwood hedges, privet and English laurel.
From the landing, seven terraces flank a grand staircase as it descends to the rolling lawn beside the pool and the re-sited pool house, which is now along an edge of the garden. An adjacent outdoor dining room under a grape-vine draped pergola was carefully situated for a cross-axial view of Mt. Tamalpais and the mission of San Rafael.
The terraces along the staircase are lush with roses - at least 100 hybrid teas, and another hundred floribundas and David Austins - all organized from the lightest colors placed by the stairs to the red roses at the edges. (Source: http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_9138800 )
Garden: My Favorite Place In The World
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
Garden: Coming Attractions
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.
Garden: Northern Acres
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
Garden: My Garden of Dreams
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.
Garden: Eclectic Oasis
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.
Garden: Lots of Veggies in my garden!
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..
Garden: My Gardens
3 Gardens in my front yard, 2 on the east side of my house, 1 a herb and 1 a flower garden, also a 3rds garden on the north side, mostly roses and day lillies.
Garden: The HideAway
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.
Garden: Jade Hill Garden
Jade Hill is a hillside stroll garden with a varied collection of exotic plant material. A partial list includes dwarf yellow-stripe bamboo, fountain bamboo, lotus, magnolias, Japanese maples, and conifers. Trees, shrubs, and perennials have been planted to form a tapestry of color and texture. Features include a walk-through bamboo grove and goldfish ponds. An Oriental viewing pavilion cantilevered over a ledge overlooks a goldthemed garden. The rose garden has more than fifty varieties of hardy shrub roses. The garden was featured in the September 2006 issue of Better Homes & Gardens and the July 2007 issue of Hudson Valley.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=10&IDEvent=231&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Blue Flag Farm
Blue Flag Farm, named for the masses of Iris versicolor in the pastures, is an old New England farm. An eighteenth-century Cape Cod-style house next to the Pendleton Hill Brook overlooks stone walls, sheep pastures, and tall oaks. In the fields among glacial outcroppings are beds containing 600 daylily cultivars—large flowered, small, miniatures, and spiders. Some beds feature pink, purple, and red daylilies; others yellow, gold, and red. I take great pleasure in a seventy-by-forty-foot perennial border where perennials, shrubs, and annuals accompany daylilies in pleasing combinations. Delphinium, annual poppies, roses, salvia, clematis, nasturtium, herbs, and coleus are included.
Info taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=212&IDEvent=170&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Roses and more
Small garden in Mississauga. It's like an english cottage garden with vegetables and roses peacefully coexisting
Garden: Weedin & Feedin
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.
Garden: My Piece of Paradise
This is the place I relax instantly. It calms the nerves immediately. I can't imagine life without it.
Garden: Sheila's Garden
Was a lovely Japanese garden when we bought the house, but I've planted bulbs and a Rowan tee and a contorted willow, as well as lilies and roses and all sorts of non-Japanese flowers, so it doesn't look quite the same as it used to!
Garden: MY OASIS
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 .....
Garden: Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny
There are two parts in Monet's garden: a flower garden called Clos Normand in front of the house and a Japanese inspired water garden on the other side of the road.
The Clos Normand land is divided into flowerbeds where flower clumps of different heights create volume. Fruit trees or ornamental trees dominate the climbing roses, the long -stemmed hollyhocks and the coloured banks of annuals. Monet mixed the simplest flowers (daisies and poppies) with the most rare varieties.
The central alley is covered over by iron arches on which climbing roses grow. Other rose trees cover the balustrade along the house. At the end of the summer nasturtiums invade the soil in the central alley.
In this water garden you will find the famous Japanese bridge covered with wisterias, other smaller bridges, weeping willows, a bamboo wood and above all the famous nympheas which bloom all summer long. The pond and the surrounding vegetation form an enclosure separated from the surrounding countryside.
Garden: gardencourtyard
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...
Garden: Franks Gardens
I enjoy growing many types of perennials such as lilies, roses and cut flowers and enjoy growing vegetables and fruits in our edible garden patch.
Garden: Keyhole ornamental and vegetable garden
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!
Garden: Trina's Herbs and Vegetables
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.
Garden: Sharon's Garden
Overgrown!!! Rhodos, roses, fruit trees container gardening, tomatoes, lavender, herbs, and anything the deer or sheep don't eat
Garden: Jardin des Plantes
The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²).
The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the Muséum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum. In addition to the gardens there is also a small zoo, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the royal menagerie at Versailles.
The Jardin des Plantes maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity. About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a one hectare (10,000 m²) plot.
Three hectares are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants. An Alpine garden has 3000 species with world-wide representation. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco wintergarden, and Mexican and Australian hothouses display regional plants, not native to France. The Rose Garden, created in 1990, has hundreds of species of roses and rose trees. (Source: Wikipedia.org)
Garden: Parc de Bagatelle
In 1905 Bagatelle was sold to the City of Paris.
Just prior to its redevelopment, Bagatelle was a strange sight. A landscape where rivers, paths and beds of flowers, created in the XIXth century, softened the surprise effects of the pre-romantic gardens of the Count d'Artois without detracting from its spirit.
From 1905, the J.-C.-N. Forestier, the Commissioner of the Jardins de Paris, succeeded in retaining the garden's style whilst at the same time redeveloping it.
In order to make the public more aware of the growing popularity of horticulture, J.-C.-N. Forestier created temporary and permanent collections of horticultural plants.
He built the famous rose gardens, the iris garden and the presenters, designed a pond to improve the presentation of aquatic plants and water lilies which were so dear to the painter Claude Monet. In 1907 he organised the first international competition for new roses.
Exhibitions, concerts and various cultural events are periodically held in the castle and the magnificent Bagatelle gardens. (Source: http://www.v1.paris.fr/EN/Visiting/gardens/parc_bagatelle.asp )
Garden: Les Chemins de la Rose
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 )
Garden: Brain on low
Small suburban backyard. Contains small (15' x 5') ground garden. I put in a small area of mulch with roses, spirea, and clematis. Also have a stepping path with Indian sandstone stones with thyme growing between them. In the front have a small area which used to be lawn and I have torn out (ran out of room in the back!) with an assortment of flowers.
Garden: Roseraie de L'Haÿ (Roseraie du Val-de-Marne)
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)
Garden: Beach Rose House Garden
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.
Garden: Charmaine & David's Secret Garden
28 years of planning, refining, moving, adding - you know! A work in progress! We have fountains, several well established lovely maples, a couple of impressive Trumpet vine trees (yes! trees!), Day lilies, Roses, Herbs, Passion flowers, Hibiscus, Hosta, Ferns, Clematis, Honeysuckle ....... you get the idea! If we love it we try to grow it.
Garden: kellys flowers
hanging baskets, flower beds, tomotoe plants,bell peppers,rhododendroms, roses
Garden: Backyard perenial and vegetable garden
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.
Garden: Quiet oasis
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.
Garden: Diane's Garden
Small backyard with patio and fish pond. Lilacs and hydrangeas. Next year I'll be planting roses and clematis along my cedar trellis.
Garden: Sheila's Garden
My passion is gardening .My best friend introduced me to someome saying " Sheila specialized in bulbs".I had never thought I did. I love all flowering bulbs ,tulips, daffys, lilys,especially because of the scent. My favorites include, Roses,Columbines,viola,pansys,poppys,ferns. I also love all my planted junk!
Garden: CONNIES GARDEN
MY GARDEN HAS A MIX OF EVERYTHING , ROSES BLOOMING FLOWERS , EDIBLES , HERBS AND ALL KINDS OF TROPICALS PLUS HUGE FERNS!
Garden: an octopus' garden in the shade
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!
Garden: our hilltop garden
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
Garden: Annie's Gardens
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.
Garden: Around and About Rockannand
I am growing Dahlias, lillies, blueberries and an assortment of hanging baskets. I dig up my Dahlia tubers each fall and have a very good display each August. Preferring the 'giant' size Dahlia... I am also introducing Peonies for early blooms, since Dahlias are late bloomers.
Garden: overgrown cottage garden
created gardenrooms, small kitchengarden, greenhouse, fragrant flowers/bushes. Some healing plants
Garden: Peace & Quite Time
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.
Garden: Our Garden
We're building a garden from a scrap waste patch behind our cottage that the landlord was going to concrete.
We're taking a very slow, permaculture approach because we've discovered that from where we're starting, we have approx. 6" soil which is a mix of waterlogged mud and heavy clay, onto the old, C16th cottage floor. We're spending little bits on the garden as and when we can and we're cultivating cuttings from local hedgerows and plant-swapping.
Our initial plan is to cover as much of the breeze-block wall as possible with flowers and then build raised beds (ideal as I have spine injuries) from the rubble that we've pulled out so far, in which we can far easier manage the soil quality.
This year we've had success with carrots; onions (bedford champion); lettuce (lollo rosso) raspberries; roses; cucumber; lavender; and various herbs. We have also introduced a laburnum as a standard and have a little patch of lawn chamomile that's struggling valiantly.
Garden: My Little Haven
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....
Garden: Tillie's Flowers
Tillie's flowers and birds January - September 09
entrance, front, and south side is all cement
moss roses, begonias, ferns, zinnas
backyard is 15 x 30 with another litte rock extension on the north side
morning glories, moon flowers on the fences
four o clocks and zinnas in grassy area
marigolds, zinnas, moss roses, sweet asylumn, honeysuckle in garden area
marigolds, trumpet vine, morning glory vine in rock area
bird pictures start in January with the hawk - gold finches in March - cardinals and indigo bunting in April
Garden: Rocky Top
My garden is about 3 acres, with mixed sun and shade, trees and flowers and surround by forest. I have wild and tame flowers, and am working on a raised bed veggie/fruit garden. I am still building the raised beds. Last winter, I transplanted some wild black raspberries and they are doing well in the new spot. I hope to get a nice blueberry patch going too. I am also trying to build a Victorian Romance Garden with old varieties of roses.
Garden: Garden of Mixture
My garden I would like to have color all year round. Love flowers with lots of perfume.I have roses lots of Aqualigias.
Garden: Irene & Hans Garden
a large garden, with many roses,rhododendrums, camelias,maple trees, fish pondas, paths, a rocky stream, in a private setting, with the backdrop of Lake Rotorua
Garden: callaghans garden....
private family garden, contains specimen plants, and takes a lot of work... hostas, fuchisa, roses, climbers, monbrieta, acers, etc
Garden: my wee bit of paradise
i have inherited this one, so a work in progress. Soon to build a new house in same area so can start from scratch. mostly perennials and roses, some natives, have a small vege garden in old baths
Garden: Pamela's garden
My garden is in Days Bay, Eastbourne. In the front it is mostly a cottage style garden with roses and lawn. Amongst my roses are fox gloves, granny bonnets, pentstemons and much more. In the back I have rhododendrons and camelias underplanted with hostas, and renga lilies.A small herb and vegetable garden features in the back also. The total size of our land is 1/4 acre.
Garden: Michelles Garden
Half the garden is low water and maintanance and the other part is under thick lawn with lollypop roses, lavender and gazania. Love to mix the exotic with desert plants
Garden: Agape
from roses to flowers and cactus to ferns and palmtrees. What a mixture! need guidance on expanding and building a winning garden.
Dream of having a big farm with lots of plants and giving away half to underprivilegded so they can enjoy it!
Garden: Roselee's garden
A Large garden on the banks of the modderriver in the freestate. My garden has lots of roses in formal and informal planting. Part of the garden is a wild garden with only indigenous plants.
Garden: Some Cycads, rose and lylies
The garden is filled with plants, almost a bit of everything. Aloes, roses, cycads, Acapanthes etc.
Garden: Rocky Top
I have a 3 acre yard/garden with large trees, flowers, a spot I am working on for my veggie/fruit garden. I am growing rose of sharon, forsythia, lilacs, roses, hostas, lilies, pink flowering almond, wildflowers, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, etc... I have blackberries, black raspberries (both wild), strawberries, blueberrry bushes, Jerusalem artichokes, sedums, wild purple phlox, tame phlox, grapes, pears, peaches, cherries, and many others. The rest of my place is mostly wooded.
Garden: south loirston
Half an acre flowers ,shrubs lawns trees greenhouse polytunnel containers in courtyard
bulbs soft fruit roses and hanging baskets
Garden: Frary's Fresh Flowers
Gaining experience - want to grow flowers for a living. Heathers, roses, primroses, tubs, climbers
Garden: Wild and Wonderful
Very low maintenance, mature, coastal garden. We love it. Birds, bees, butterflies, frogs toads, snakes and fish love it.
Garden: A little bit of heaven
A small townhouse garden with roses, lavendar, water features, etc. In the little backyard a raised vegetable garden & deck is planned!
Garden: Reilly's garden
I don't have any idea to grow roses and buganvileas... any one can give me a hand with this?
Garden: Debbie's garden
1200m2 1/2 lawn - informal, Have two big coral trees - one front garden the other back. Have a small vege garden as well. Arums, Agapanthus, Petria creeper, Wysteria creeper, Jasmine creeper, Banksia roses, Galpinia trees, bouganvilla intense pink, Have a small earthworm farm, some crotons, Mock Orange bushes and ciggarette tree over birdbath.
Garden: Ashirvaad's Garden
The Garden is only 3 years old. It has lawn and various types of coniferous, roses, cycas etc.
Garden: leanne's sanity
front garden is all mauve's, purples and whites with 2 yellow roses. the back is everything, plus my vwggiegarden
Garden: Santosaland
My garden in the Campo to the left of the village, we do grow meditteranean plants as well as roses,honeysuckly and pine trees.We are in a valley which gets north winds,so our plants need to be hardy,
Garden: kilmagoura
my garden is a small cottage garden with lots of flowers and a few shrubs. I also have a backyard with a lot of pot plant. flowers in my gaden are foxgloves, peoneys, delphs. lots of types of daffodils , dalhias and pot marigolds and lupins. Shurbs are bullidia, varegated elder and old rambling roses. The cottage was built in around the 1910s so olld fashoined plants suit with the odd modern plant such as a gum tree cut down as a shrub.
Garden: Los Limoneros
the garden is approximately 1,600 sq mtrs and has fruit trees, shrubs, roses, pots and palms. We have lived here for nearly nine years and have just retired. This year we are hoping to do a lot in the garden and get a veg plot up and running as well as turning the vineyard into a garden.
Garden: my garden (very mixed)
I had restraining walls put against a hilly, crumbly rocky area from which I removed some old trunks (others, well underneath are still there. The worker used local stones in a rustic way to create four levels. I had a large area left at the bottom where I planted fruit trees, salad, basil, strawberries in hedge form, The middle level is a kind of long planting box used for herbs, large succulents, annuals, some flowers from bulbs. On the top level I planted blueberry and blackberry bushes. The bottom most level is used for the vegetable garden and other fruit trees. There is also a planting area around the perimeter of the property-a two family house where there are forsythia, lavander, roses, lantane, gladioli, spring bulbs mostly already there.
Garden: Casa Nueve
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.
Garden: mrs P
3500sqm of mostly clay and stoney soil.
we have many spanish plants and some english, olive, almond, cherry, walnut trees, and oliander, orange ,roses,and lots of shrubs many climbers,marigolds,gladoili,blueberries,blackcurrants, and a veg patch, with onions potatoes tomatoes,beetroot rhubarb,carrots cabbage shallots,green beans lettuce pepino,and melons,not all at the same time,but very busy in the spring/summer.
Garden: Kathleen's Paradise
My garden is English style, it has lots of roses, paeonies, irises, lillies, & campanulas in white/blue/pink combo,as well as hedging cedars & shrubs. It has some grass, brick courtyard, an arbour, garden benches, boxwood hedging,mulch pathways, even a statue! I love my garden, it's my peaceful place of retreat & calm & is each year changing & evolving.
Garden: The Gardens of Alcatraz
visitors to Alcatraz find a landscape alive with fragrant old roses, fig trees, bulbs, and colorful succulents—historic examples of sustainable planting. Where historic plantings were lost, visitors now see new plants with low maintenance and water needs more appropriate to today’s conditions. These substitute plants, brought into the gardens starting in 2005, are similar in type, form, scale, and color to the plants in historic photographs. (Source: http://www.alcatrazgardens.org/index.php )
Garden: My garden
An orchid with pomegranate, olives, mandarins, blueberries, pomelo, pears, sage, passion fruit, herbs and roses.
Garden: home garden
a large garden all aroun the oue and closed in by fences and hedges with mostly perennial plants, spring bulbs, bushes, roses and a few trees. There are terraces but it is flat all round the house. I try to hav some flowers in evry part of the year so we have some colours but my favourie plant is the clematis then delphiniums, phlox, and roses. It's hard work but my husband helps a loy with the hedges ,trees and grass but I like to se to the flows and bushes.
As it is half-way up a hill,the babk of the gard has a lot of shafe wgere the ortensia grow really well. I hope that thy allow pictues on here becaus it's noy asy to escibe a garden.
Garden: From Long Island, US to Hong Kong
My ex-garden in Long Island,New York was on a good size of land. A lotus pond with lotus, waterlily and Koi fish; Tree Peony, Coreopsis, Japanese Maple, Pines, Dogwoods, Azalea, roses and Clementis... Spring,summer,fall,winter, spring... enchanting
to see the seasons change.
Now I move to Hong Kong in which private land garden is almost not existing, only with a hot and a cool season. It is a big void without any plant life around, so I created this balcony garden to fill the void - from 8000 sq ft to 38 sq ft - what a drastic
change! But that little sacred space capsulizes the universal joy of gardening -
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Garden: Los Gallardos Camping
Full sun most of the day, Jacaranda tree, huge Palm, lots of cactus, roses & hibiscus
Garden: Ina's garden
There is a swimming pool in the middle of it, many roses, sunflowers,a little tree, herbs and seasonal flowers like tulips, snowdrops, daffodils and many others.
Garden: Lots of Lawn - Gotta Go!
Southwest facing - parching! Very dry and windy! All lawn - 75' wide - with beds either side of the stairs. Right side: sedum,oat Grass, primrose (if it comes back). Left side: irises (including three pretty coral-colored German ones, 7-foot lilac bush and on the left property line: 2 potentillas (one will have to come out) and one spirea. Want to plant roses in left front bed. Also, there is a lone peony on the right side in a hole I dug (not a bed, but needs to turn into one). Also in the front, there is a beautiful, but aging weeping birch - need arborist - a golden elder bush that needs pruning at least twice per summer - and a large May Day tree. I am not great in the planning stage, but will do my best this LOOONG winter.
Garden: A Blissful Bed & Breakfast's Garden
We have an English-style garden with brick paths and patio areas on a large corner residential lot with a green-belt at the back. On the south-facing side we have a kitchen garden with 5 raised beds and an assortment of multi-grafted fruit trees. On last count we have 40 roses from ramblers and climbers through to miniatures scattered over our property.
Garden: Mai Più Senza!
I have a garden divided into two zones; one sunny area and one shady area. The sunny part is what people first see while walking by and upon entering, and the shady garden is more private, behind the house with roses on a pergola and high hedges around the edge of the property.
Garden: Pilgrims
3 1/2 acres landscaped with trees, shrub and herbaceous borders, 400 roses of all types, 50 clematis, vegetable garden.
Garden: My garden in Coazze
My backyard garden is mainly composed by HT roses and english roses plus a variety of perennials and common shrubs. Of course, always work in progress...
Garden: chaotic charm
large block with about 30% wanna-be lawn area. about 20% no-care needs nothingness.
4 gardenbeds (Cordyline, yakka, grasses) frontyard. And 4 gardenbeds ( Roses,golden cane,geranium etc) backyard. Geraldton Waxes on 2 fences. Limestone underground, sandy soil and no bore-water, but Retic.
Garden: Sue's Passion
1000+ sq metres around my house.Southwards: 'tropicals'and lawn;west:lawn and roses and cedrus pedula;north-west:lawn and new perennial border and shrubbery;north:narrow'Japanese' garden with small pond and patio with raised herb beds.
Garden: Gradinutza
A little garden in the backyard of our block of flats. 3 years ago, together with our neighbours we starded to plant flowers in this tiny green spot. I hope we will have many roses this year!
Garden: Casa Azelia
Mine is a terraced garden, not specially large, rising up away from the house like a long thin triangle with the point above the top terrace. When I bought it, during a drought, there wasn't much more than three terraces which should have been grass but were just dust, two rows of vines, and a dead tree.
The first thing I did was plonk an above ground pool on the bottom terrace - a great success as it was quick and relatively cheap, but diasterous aesthetically - cue extension of paved terrace, dry stone walls, steep rose bed in front of pool, and shady pergola.
In the past few years I have also added three pencil pines (which I tried to prune, with unhappy consequences); oleanders to screen the satellite dish; and two beautiful old olive trees. The first olive died so the second one came free. The dead one is now dedicated to the cats for climbing and scratching, and to a pretty blue climber, I dont know its name but it looks like a small flowered clematis, but isn't.
Roses grow like weeds here, and my other successes are the wildflower meadow, and my parsnips which I grew from seed - and am currently enjoying!!! Other favourite 'doers' include plumbago, solanum, wisteria, clematis, buddleia, lagerstroemium, lavender, rosemary and pinks. I irrigate as little as possible but am lucky enough to have a well for necessary watering. This year I hope to improve the wildflower garden and extend the pergola a little - money and help permitting.
Garden: Olimpia´s garden
We inherited the garden when we moved here 2 years ago, it is split into three, main section has 3 large false pepper trees, fig, magnolia and jacaranda trees, surrounded by hedging, some of it lantana other evergreen. There are also shrubs and rose trees and a small pond with fountain. The grass area of sorts is very poor and the whole of this area is surrounded by a gravel path with bench seat on each side.
The next area is grass again, with a palm tree, currently receiving treatment for the red palm beetle, no sure if it will survive or not, a large Yukka plant and two sky rocket conifers, also another bed consisting of roses, conifer, and other palm type plant.
The third area around the pool is planters, in which I have a lemon and orange tree, bay, plus bedding plants and herb pots.
Garden so named because it was designed by the previous owner, Olimpia.
Garden: The Sanctuary
I plan to make a garden composed of roses,daisies and vegetables such as lettuce,tomatoes and other veggies suited for cultivating here in Anderlues,Belgium.I also intend to have waterfalls in a Japanese-inspired Zen type corner garden.
Garden: flowers garden
At my house I have front, side and back garden containing many evergreens, climbing roses, rhododendrons, hyendreas. heathers, thistles, bulbs of fragrant lilies, tulips and at the back garden some hanging flowers...
Garden: My Little Piece of Mind
It's a mix of flowers, herbs, some vegetables and roses in the cloud forest of Central Guatemala.
Garden: My Little Garden
My garden is a little bit of everything. Although there is a lot of space to work with, I've tried to bring some of home (Minnesota) to my garden for my children. It has western grass in the middle, edged by small planting spaces that I've created with brick borders. There are two lilac trees, to remind me of the smells of spring when I was a boy. I grow seasonal berries, like strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries in some of the individual plots, and vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, broccoli, garlic, cucumbers, cabbage, etc. In others I grow flowers, such as roses, tulips, daffodils, and so on. And I also raise herbs, lavender, marjoram, thyme, basil, rosemary and mint. All together, I average about 150 different plants, either potted or planted in the soil.
Garden: Cheyenne Botanic Gardens
Outside spread over eight acres are many gardens featuring perennials, annuals, wildflowers, roses, herbs, and cacti. Some specialty areas include a nationally recognized inspirational Peace Garden, rose garden, herb garden, cacti garden, two community vegetable gardens, lily pond, sensory garden, and the Discovery Pond and educational wetland area. Connecting many gardens is the Western Walkway featuring 170 livestock brands set into the concrete walk. The walkway connects the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens grounds to the Old West Museum, where the vitality, drama and romance of life in the West comes alive.
Along the Western Walkway is a unique series of three landscaped plazas known as the Rotary Century Plazas. Each plaza interprets life in southeast Wyoming over the past three centuries (1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s). Each plaza includes sculpted benches, historic plants and other interpretations explaining life in each century. The Rotary Century Plazas also include Wyoming’s oldest locomotive that is surrounded by a historic folk art fence. Adjacent to the 1900’s plaza is a restored 1928 FarmAll tractor and an educational shelterbelt planting.
Source: http://www.botanic.org/More_Details.asp
Garden: Roses&old trees
We\\\'ve got this garden from ex-owner of big homestead.It has 100\\\'year old lindens around. A group of old apple trees in the center, 3 huge maples, 2 domed thujas in front of the house,flower garden of 2 symmetrical parts in front of windows,25 English rosebush,many decorative buch in green fences, rhododendrons etc..
Garden: phokea
lemon tree, fig tree, plum tree, cherry tree, peanut tree, almond tree, olive tree, gardenias, hybiskus, hortance, avocado tree, roses, basil, mint, tulips and other flowers, and vegetables and herbs depending the season
Garden: rose lovers delight.
A garden full of over 250 rose bushes and mixed borders on a quarter acre.Part of the garden is over a bank that has been terraced with an assortment of trees,under planted with Hydrangas, Hostas and Hellabores.
My garden has colour almost all throughout the year and by summer pruning my roses I have blooms well into May/ June.We have a very temporate temperature here.
Garden: Norfolk Botanical Garden
A 155-acre garden filled with thousands of plants. More than thirty themed gardens are spread across site. Some gardens focus on a single plant (camellias, hydrangeas, roses), others look at a plant from a specific region (Japan, Virginia), while others provide homeowners with great ideas and or new plants to use in their own garden.
Source: http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/home
Garden: Tizer Botanic Garden and Arboretum
The best raspberry and strawberry patches in the county are right here in the gardens and if you are lucky enough you might even get to taste them. Vegetables of every kind can be found growing even in this harsh environment that usually gets less than 60 consecutive frost free days.
The Rose Garden was developed in 2003 for the purpose of testing roses for Weeks Roses of California. Today, the Rose Garden is home to mostly Canadian roses.
Perennial as well as annual herbs are abundant in herb garden. Medicinal, edible and tea herbs happily intermingle.
Source: http://www.tizergardens.com/index.html
Garden: Elko County Rose Garden
Begun in 2000, this garden was created as an ever changing, staged, community garden. It is located in Elko, Nevada, behind the Elko County Courthouse at the corner of 6th and Pine streets.
The primary objective is to create a garden that contains a collection of winter hardy, easy care roses. The goal is to identify and collect those roses that like living and thrive in Elko's climate, a USDA hardiness zone 5A (average annual minimum temperature of -15 to -20 degrees Fahrenheit). Pot-O-Gold? The red brick building with the white trim - at the end of the rainbow - is Elko's main branch of Bank of America.
Source: http://www.elkorose.com/
Garden: Bellingrath Gardens
Throughout the year, Bellingrath Gardens and Home features a wide variety of flowering plants throughout the 65 acre estate. From camellias in winter, azaleas in spring, roses in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn and poinsettias during the holidays.
Source: http://www.bellingrath.org/the-gardens.html
Garden: My Farm
Various spring bulbs, summer perennials, roses, shrubs, etc., including Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Hydrangea, daisies, etc.
Garden: Brandy's garden
My garden in the backyard is large with lots of roses and perennials. I enjoy putting in some annuals as well and like lots of colour. Last year I removed several large rhodos from my front yard as they were looking messy and they are not my favourite even if I am the one who planted them many years ago. I was able to recycle most of them by placing them at the end of our driveway and over a couple of days they all disappeared. I enjoy gardening and especially now as I am retired.
Garden: rose garden
Different roses of all colours.
Flowers the bloom for long periods of more then once,preferably perinial.
Garden: ~ Home Sweet Home~
a beautiful cottage garden with old fashioned rambling roses, lavender, daphine, fox gloves, granny bonnets, violias, hydrangers. A lovely deck to sit on and enjoy the fish pond with a lovely water fall at one end, love watching the birds have a swim in the bird baths :)
Garden: Vierula
Old fashioned cottage type garden. Traditional finnish perennials and roses. A small kitchen garden with herbs and vegetables.
Garden: ~* Rosewood Cottage *~
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I love rustic and cottage gardens with rambling wisteria, roses, lavender, fox gloves,herbs, bulbs,hanging baskets and pots filling over with color. There is nothing nicer than coming home after a busy day and being greated by beautiful smells as you walk through the gate ~ not to mention happy puppys, and relaxing with a nice glass of red on the deck with candles and music :-)
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Garden: my secret garden
It's a backyard of about 300 mts2, with a mixture of different plants such as,roses, plum tree, strawberries and some more.
Garden: Elizabeth & Alan's sub tropical garden
Our garden is a mixture of sub-tropical, roses, vegetables and traditional with mostly flowering shrubs.It is divided into two with mostly sub-tropical round a swimming pool and other more traditional plants in the other half. The garden has all day sun.
Garden: Kaz
My garden is my life,my passion!Every hour I can possibly spend in there makes me a happy lady.I buy plants because they are beautiful, and worry about where to plant them later. Roses are my favourites,I have over 150, how can one resist a beautiful rose, especially when it's name has some meaning in your life?My latest purchase is PJ, my Son,s name is Paul James!! how could I leave it behind?
Recently I have become very fond of Iris's & Lily's.A majority being cuttings given to me by friends.So in trying to describe my garden, I would call it my garden of love.
Garden: maggi's basque/english garden
I have a large, south-facing garden, with a large area of grass (lawn would be a misnoma),a hen run, fruit trees and bushes,a small pond,a vegetable plot and 2 large raised beds for veg, a patio with lots of container plants, some cottage garden beds, a loose hedge with old roses, hazel,loquat,japanese quince and witch hazel, and a sun room which doubles as a greenhouse.Also a trellis with honeysuckle, jasmine, clematis and trachelospermum.I have planted as many fragrant plants as possible, as this aspect of the garden is very important to me.
Garden: Cold Climate Town Garden
Front garden is cottage with bearded iris, roses, lavender, rosemary etc. Back is mix of veggies in raised beds, fruit trees, trying to grow grass, mixed garden bed with natives and various.
Garden: Marianne's duet garden
My garden is manageable with roses, lavender, inca,day & clivia lillies, perennial foxcloves & delphiniums, geraniums and a few rose bushes. I also have a zen garden on the east side entrance. I love my herb & veg garden and it is rewarding to pick tomatoes, parsley, mint, sage, rosemary for the kitchen and watch the pumpkin get bigger. Also banana, paw paw & avocado trees.
Garden: Sierra Los Filabres garden
We've just started planting a few months ago, as the house is new and located in a virginal space of land in the mountains of Los Filabres. Before we moved in, we planted numerous climbers, such as bougainvillea, bignonia, jasmin, honeysuckle,passion flower and plumbago - all of which apart from the jasmin, are doing well. In Novemeber we planted a canary date palm together with two Mediterannean fan palms and a Washingtonia filifera - which doesn't look too great right now - and various other plants including Yuccas and various hardy varieties, which we hope will look after themselves in the hot summer months. A friend has given me three rose bushes, one of which has a beautiful blue flower, so these will be planted over the coming weeks. Apparently, roses do well here. I'm looking forward to seeing the results, and planting many more shrubs and plants in the Spring.
Garden: Lauren's garden at the mill
I have a vegetable garden as well as a small pond in a more natural setting. I have flowers, roses and bulbs. I would like to expand and grow different types of flowers especially around my stream.
Garden: South Africa's rose fanatic
As the garden's title depicts, yes, I'm a rose fanatic. I have a normal-sized garden and I'm aiming to get a 100 roses in the garden ... I'm at 72. Almost there! I've also started a little veggie garden (still in experimenting stages).
Garden: My Little Plot
My garden has mostly containers, but with several fruit trees, and a herb bed at the rear of the house. Spring is the best time of the year, the freesias and roses are beautiful. My lemon tree is admired by all who pass by the house, as is the yellow jasmin over the front garden wall.
Garden: Court mini garden
Varius Bushes, roses, lavanda,a Carpinus, camellie and other acidophilus plantes behind tree old tall, poison ivy covered walls.
Garden: Jenny's Garden of Tranquility
My garden is set in a very beautiful and peaceful valley there is a mixture of fruit trees flowering shrubs,roses,bulbs,herbs,perennials,patio areas and a lawn,some of the plants are not thriving there is a lot of water lying in the bed on the lower level. The garden is cut in half by the drive and garage and is on different levels with large white walls and wide steps at the half way point which makes it look small.My idea is to do away with some of the walls and large steps and us some blocks of local lime stone to create a more natural gentle appearence with shallow layers of rock garden,with a water feature - small waterfall and pond with gentle rising pea gravel path to the patio areas replacing the steps. I want to create different areas to sit and relax in a beautiful place in other words a "Garden of Tranquility".
Any idea's or advise would be very welcome
Garden: The River Cottage Garden
Plot is 1000 square meters on absolute rock, located next to Gladde Spruit. The garden has been designed by Feng Shui principles and demarcated into different garden rooms. Back is woodland garden and the rest is eclectic-cottage style with 90% indigenous plants as well as herbs galore and interesting "aliens" like orchids, roses, etc. The garden is dog and animal friendly with little nooks hidden everywhere for bird watching and relaxing in nature. The garden is more wild than manicured and is my little haven.
Garden: To See or not to See , and to Smell the Perfu
Roses, Roses ,over 20 Rose beds, each bed comprimising . of 22- 55 Roses of a single Type, laid out with finely trimmed lawns , water fountain and lake .
Garden: moments of joy and quietness
Roses, rosemary and camelias...geraniums, passion fruit and lavender... aples, oranges and pears... a variety of tasty vegetables and herbs...cactus and aloes... a never ending fantasy...
Garden: English Garden in Piedmont
Piedmont is such a beautiful town with large lots. This is my favorite front garden there.
Garden: patricias backyard butterfly hummingbird para
I have a variety of gardens front and back. Some shady some sunny. I have a butterfly and hummingbird garden and a hosta garden and vegetable garden and perennial garden. The perennial garden has a small pond with a squirrel fountain that I call Merlot.
Out front I have some morning glories and some cup and saucer vines growing along with a rose bush and other perennials. I love my time in my gardens.
Garden: Lady Gray's Home Garden
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.
Garden: Featherwood House - Our First Garden
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!
Garden: Jardin Mary El Preferido
Our Garden is a long time traditional nursery we have fruit plants and many other species
we are in about 2000 feet above the sea level
Directed to the lovers of the nature who want to learn to cultivate plants and to enjoying the nature
misiòn:
To offer to them the oprotunity of estimating, knowing and loving the plants and to enjoy the nature, to love to it ,understand it and to preserve it
Garden: De Villiers Garden
Situated on three levels, incorporating a small native bush area as well as flower beds and Bonsai.
Garden: My Oasis of Peace
1,000 m2 of plants, meandering paths leading to different areas, some secluded, some open, 1 freefall waterfall into hidden tank, 1 cascade into open pond with water Iris and other aquatic plants, future home for two turtles, some fruit trees, lots of pines for wind breaks, rose arches, several banks and benches for contemplation, small greenhouse - complete my little haven!
Paula Jaffe
I am a Master Gardener living in Marin County active with the local Rose Society and Dahlia Society. I also help organize the annual Tomato Market, which benefits the Marin County Master Gardener's sustainability projects all year round.
Jessica
I am a young mother of twins, about to move to a new home with a large garden space (and a weird microclimate that I have yet to figure out). I am planning to plant a kitchen garden, and well as maintain many beautiful rose bushes. I am interested in getting my kids involved in gardening.
Dennis Jaffe
I maintain a wonderful garden in Marin Country. I'm also a world traveler and have visited many gardens in England, France and Italy.
Neil and Paul
we are a couple of urbanites that bought our first house about 5yrs ago. it was a well established garden, mostly perennials and shrubs. with a great little pond. so far we haven't killed off too much with our "black thumbs" LOL and we are getting better with new landscaping and vegetable plot we have done ourselves with some Family help
Virginia Zeidman
After retiring we moved to the desert and met up with all new challenges in gardening. Our daughter and her husband are landscape designers and gave suggestions for our yard. We also joined the Palms Garden Club and gain information each month from interesting speakers. Some of the desert friendly plants in our garden are Mexican Bush Sage, artemesia, mixed with herbs and roses in the back yard. In the front we have palms, tabacco plant, sages and artemesia. The artemesia was a new plant for us that affords the grey green color and sets off the borders. I put seasonal bedding plants in front mixed with Mexican petunias. In the summer it is multicolored zinnias in the winter I plant snapdragons, pansies and petunias. These are also used in many color pots in the back yard with fresia bulbs everywhere! There are daffidols and iris as well. In two areas I have cannas which bloom from spring to fall and give us good color in the hot, hot summer. In our courtyard is a cactus garden with some sages and a slipper plant to attract the hummingbirds. Wouldn't it be nice if weeds and bugs were never a problem? I need more information about the feeding of plants and protection from harmful bugs.
Joshua Frank
I've been gardening for 10 years and have been enjoying it ever since! I'm currently in University studying Biochemistry.
Laura
Am retired and enjoying time to grow and experiment with different plants now that I have more time. Love to push the boundrys of garden zones. My garden is more experimental than magazine pretty.
Liz Williams
We have lived in this house for about 25 years. It has gone through many changes, as do all - or most I guess - gardens. I have mainly concentrated on perennials because its just too expensive to buy annuals every year.
Faye
Can't work in the garden in the winter and need to get out of the house at times,summer is not long enough here in Saskatchewan.I have always enjoyed gardening.Have more time to devote to it now that I have become a senior.I lost my husband almost 2years ago and my yard gives me solace.I have a cat who is 15 and likes to help me work.In the winter I spend a lot of time on the computer if I am not redecorating.Enjoy painting.I have 4 children,9 grandkids and 8 greatgrandkids,most of my family close to home.Never have a chance to be bored.The statue of Apollo watches over my yard.
Wendy Newbury
I have been living here since 2005 when i bought a place with absolutely no garden and a bad fence. Since 2005 I have made improvements and added new garden beds which is getting close to my garden oasis but i have one more area which is occupied by a metal shed. Once this shed is gone I will replace the fence and make this sitting area my dream yard.
Amy
Started gardening in 2004 when we bought our house and my husband gave me carte blanche - he'll mow the lawn but anything else I wanted to do, I could. The front lawn is getting smaller and the garden beds are getting bigger. :) Took a Master Gardener class but apparently I'm not allowed to call myself a Master Gardener because I can't keep up with their volunteer hours due to my job. :P Oh well, learned a hell of a lot and I'm still learning. My garden is my bliss.
Jeff
Been gardening since I was a kid. Keep many house plants, keeps a yearly out door garden including mostly veg and roses + herbs. Mostly gets overgrown with weeds. Much too much room to work alone. Community style garden next year. Love starting from seed. Starting a minor seed bank.
Jenny
We originally started out with a clean slate. There was only one huge spruce tree in the front yard and nothing in the back yard. Over a period of five years, we removed the big spruce (it was misshapen due to multiple tops), installed many raised flower beds in both front and back yards, installed a pond in the back and a bridge and new sidewalk in the front. I initially planted in the neighborhood of 200+ different perennials which has been reduced to about half of that. Generally, when something doesn't grow in one area, I'll move it until I find just the right spot for it. Sometimes however, some plants are just not meant to grow here. I love sharing my perennials or flower seeds with people. I have found that gardening has given me the opportunity to meet many new people with the same interests. I hope to, someday, work in a garden centre or greenhouse.
Rose
I love to garden - my neighbour once asked my husband "What is your wife doing out in the yard digging like a Badger?" - well that is me - always out in my yard working away at something - it is my happy place to go out and play in the dirt -
Elaine
Seabreeze Resort has 10 waterfront cottages and campsite. Each cottage has its own flower bed. We grow seasonal flowers, rhodos, bulbs, roses, vines, annuals, perennials. Fruit, conifers, deciduous and palm trees. The creek that runs through the property add to the plant life. A natural bog garden and pond is ideal for encouraging the frogs and toads. The big cedars have resident eagles. The tiered gardens to the creek gives an abundance of color every season. Horses in the pasture gives enough manure to keep my roses happy. The arbor adds color to the main house. The ample adjoining lawns bring the whole property together.
Irene
Just moved to this property in March this year, beautiful gardens with many trees and shrubs, still discovering whats in the garden as summer comes along. May open it to the public as a wedding venue, it has two lovely fish ponds, many pathways, pergolas, and walkways, we are very lucky to live in such wonderful surroundings.
Pamela
I live in New Zealand across the harbour from the capital city of Wellington with my husband, our ginger cat Daisy and dog Frodo (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) I love to garden when the weather is fine on weekends! We are close to a Regional park with native bush so we get heaps of native birds in our garden - tuis, kereru,fantails and many more - I can hear the bell sound of the tui as I write this!
Caro Braithwaite
I was a reluctant gardener until about four years ago, when I decided to "re-do" the existing garden, which was wildly overgrown. I ripped out most of the bushes and started landscaping with a water feature, pathway, edging, splitting existing plants and replanting, created sitting space and generally cleaning up. It has been a work in progress ever since, with making new beds, building a better entertainment area, outdoor barbecue area and so on. It was fun.
marinda
I`ve never planted a thing in my life until 4 years ago. We`ve lost our 20 year old daughter and I`ve decided in mid winter to plant this memorial garden in honour of her, I must admit that I`ve cried the whole time every day while busy doing this. Today it`s a wonderfull tranquil place with lots of birds, butterflies etc, and a special place where we lit candles for her which she loved and I had put all of her fairies, angels, dreamcatchers and windcharms there also. Her daddy had made us a place to sit from an old piece of dead tree and today people come and go there all the time, just to sit and enjoy the space and many nights we would see a tiny flickering of candle light and know that someone had visit her garden.I have my coffe every morning there and in winter time I enjoy to sit at there and eat ice cold naartjies from our naartjie tree.
Andrew
My wife and I have lived in this home for 22 years; when we bought the house in 1987, it was fence-to-fence weeds, with three small trees in the backyard, nothing in the front. I took a six-week home landscaping course in 1989 to give me the ability to design and lanscape a garden in a Canberra urban block. All work I have done on this garden since then stems from that original design. Every year I make changes in accordance with the climate that seems forever changing these days. The major drought we are experiencing since the late 1990s has influenced what i do in the garden.
raffaella ferretti
What can I say? ... I travelled a lot and last year, we finally decided to find our dream house for us, the kids, and our pets and horse. We decided to go "eco" and we are still involved with the restauration of the house... a typical "loghino" in the Mantova (Mantua) country. Hopefully, next spring I'll be able to to plant some trees and bushes as well as flowers and roses. I'd love to plant Hydrangeas and old roses, besides all the beautiful plants typical of an English garden. I'd like to attract butterflies, have my children engage with the magic of nature, open the windows and smelling the sweet perfumes of the aromatics, and warmely and cheerfully welcome my visitors! I have a lot to do: prepare the ground, add a sprinkler system or at least some watering features (on a surface of 5000 sqm), and then the fun part: go to garden centers and study the best solutions for my area. All in all, I think I will be able to post some photos only next summer!!!
Rebecca
Hmmm.... I have been gardening for as long as I can remember. It all started with my Mother's Eden. My current garden which I inherited 6mths ago has Apple and Lemon trees and many, many roses. I have already added to that my herb collection (54 varieties and growing) and commenced a nice big veggie garden. The veggie garden currently has potatoes,onions, peas,lettuce, tomatoe, beetroot, spinach, silverbeet, carrot, cauli's, broccoli,brussel sprouts and corn. Oh,and Celery.....think that's all. Also,have a growing collection of berry fruits.....
Geraldine Mac Kinnon
Artist, art teacher and botanical artist from Chile. I moved to the beach a few months ago, and everything grows nice though it's necesary to take care of the sun and wind, mostly when plants are young. I love to watch and draw plants and birds. I am also a surfer so my spot is perfect!
Dawn Ridler
Having originally got an honours degree in botany before getting stuck into an MBA, my garden is the only place I have ever used those hard one talents!
Trish Littmann
We bought the two houses in 2007 and do bed and breakfast with occasional evening meals so we try to use our own produce when possible. I am always busy so I have tried to make the gardens low maintenance as the area covers 7 acres.I am also a pianist and play for a gospel choir so am busy rehearsing and playing for concerts. The garden is my haven of peace and quiet.
Anna Bradbury
I'm a mad Roserian, I exhibit and judge at shows.I garden for people as a job and just love creating new spaces for people. I'm involved with our local school garden project, advising and helping the children to learn and grow their veges and orchard. I'm president of our Horowhenua District Rose society and I'm heavily involved in volunteer work maintaining Levin's Public Rose Garden. Any one wishing to come along to help dead head, I'm there every Tuesday morning until 12pm.We have a glass house that I just love to grow cuttings and seeds at home to share.
Dawid & Susan de Villiers
We moved into this property at the start 0f 2008. It was well established but old. The original garden was designed about 35 years ago. The hardlandscaping was extremely well planned and engineered. One of the current problems is to update the drainage systems as well as some of the retaining walls that are getting a bit old. The short to medium term plan would be to replace some of the very old roses and plant some plants to remind us of our home country.
chrissy mitchell
hi there :) Im a cottage gardener, always have been. At every place I've brought I've put a fish pod in and made the gardens into and old fashioned cottage garden, with old fashioned rambling roses, lavender fox gloves, etc.. there's nothing nicer than coming home tired after a busy day and being greeted by beautiful smells as you walk in the gate ~
stephen webster
Hi there I am stephen Webster , gardener, amongst other things , I am a very hands on person , I dont mind getting down and getting my hands dirty, seeing as soil bacteria is reasonably good for you in small doses , I have no problem with dirty hands , One of my main things in my gardening life is Roses, from the " beautiful " to just a pretty rose , Ill try to get more photos up here of Prunning , and feeding to low maintenance applications pto.
did the roses in the shape of two humps, with a circle garden in the center of each hump
this pic. is kinda lop-sided but I was trying to get the whole line of roses, can you see how they are placed? like a flying stick bird LoL
I love this pic. of the moss covered rock peeking out of the weeds amonst the wild roses, that area has been cleared out since then but I thought you'd like to see it, the pic. was taken in the earily morn., magic hour
rose de rescht has been in my garden for 3-4 years now. It hasn't grown past 2 feet yet and has strong scented small roses. Still very pretty.
This is 'Henry Hudson' - one of the Explorer Series roses (really hardy and easy-care).
A little overgrown now. Snow in summer, cranesbill geranuium, catmint and 3 roses. A climber in the back, the large one is a rugosa (hansa) and the small one that managed to survive last winter is a floribunda (ebb tide).
The front flower bed. Catmint, campanula, some lavender, geraniums, a rhodo on the left of the window, viburnum on the right, perovskia a couple of roses and yes that is a tomato right at the front door.
this seat was made from bits of timber lying around after the house was built i planted the roses each side (Dorothy Perkins)mixed with honeysuckle a delightful place to relax faceing south, we also had a wrens nest for the last two years
small garden in july - love the sweet asylum, moss roses, marigolds, honeysuckle - all came back from last
year
In this corner of the garden I've planted about fifteen kinds of sage, but the most impressive might be the Salvia sclarea. In November Salvia elegans wins first prize with its bright red dart flowers and heavenly sweet pineapple smell. Salvia does so well here I hack it all back in early spring (early March)and propogate hundreds of new plants. The pink California poppies and roses add a bit of color to the silver/gray pastel palette. The Eucalyptus seems to survive the Bologna area frosts!
Early morning is the best time to see the summer colours, before the hot sun is raging. May flowers in the Castle of Galeazzza Garden include poppies, cornflowers, dianthus, alliums, nigella, lavender, borage, santolina, roses, nemophila, lamb's ears and more. The tree in the background is an Atlas Cedar, planted in the 1950s. Its glaucous hue was the inspiration for adding silver and grey plants.
I've decided to forgoe the heartache of digging and handpulling the weeds and sprayed this lot with round-up today. Everything pretty much will go except the bulbs and roses on the right.
