Landscaping Ideas for Around a Big Pond
Creating a landscape around a large pond may be relatively easy, involving the selection, siting and installation of groups of trees and shrubs. Pond projects may also be extremely complex and include rearranging topography, constructing hardscaping (walkways, walls and even bridges) and substantial planting. Designers and planners have to consider the greatest use of this […]
How to Embed Rocks in Concrete
Adding decorative rocks to concrete functions in tiny jobs, like garden pavers, or larger jobs, including a new patio or paved pathway. The rocks add texture and colour to the ordinarily bland-colored tangible to help bring visual interest to your yard. The easiest way to embed the rocks is to use a surface retardant to […]
How to construct a Fairy Garden House
Both fairy garden houses are alike, since they, like fairies, come out of the creative imagination. Find a quiet spot in your garden, rather at the base of a large tree inside view of a garden bench or patio, yet somewhat shielded from traffic. The more natural and hidden your fairy house, the more likely […]
Can-Do Design Ideas From 8 City Gardens
Urban gardens may have begun as a means to connect us to our rural roots, but we can now turn to those cities themselves for garden inspiration. Designers and gardeners are creating spaces that are doing more than simply replacing asphalt with plants — they’re bringing communities together, providing habitats for migrating birds, and housing […]
Garden Design Essentials: Mass and Shape
I am reviewing the principles and elements of design — directly out of my 1980s college textbook Design Through Discovery, from Marjorie Elliott Bevlin — since they link to gardens. I wanted to research my own understanding of those timeless layout themes and locate jobs to illustrate each one. It ends up that shape and […]
Are Eucalyptus and Melaleuca Related?
Both eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.) , hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 7 to 11, depending on cultivar, and melaleuca (Melaleuca spp.) Hardy in zones 8 through 11, depending on cultivar, include evergreen shrubs and trees native primarily to Australia — and they are associated. They belong to the myrtle familymembers, or Myrtaceae, […]
Landscape Trends: Spout and Trough Fountains
Have you noticed any simple yet striking fountains about recently? Their rectilinear types resemble troughs, plus they usually have a simple horizontal runner that the water splashes down. In the history of landscape architecture, two precedents utilizing this kind of fountain design stand out in my mind. The first is that the work of Luis […]
Garden Tour: Enchanting Landscape that is Greek
You understand a landscape is great when it seems like it was not created at all, but instead only exists if it’s existed there eternally. You are drawn by the quality of the the area in distractions and guard you from all outdoor powers and to nurture. I immediately understood the Garden on Paros was […]