A well-designed front-yard planting should provide a setting for a house but should not compete with it for attention. Flowers and colorful trees and shrubs can easily dominate a landscape scene, but they may be used in the front of your house and still not steal attention from the house itself. The pictures opposite and … Read more
This is the story of how I planned and planted the grounds of my new home. Since my gardening is a personal activity, the story behind the development of the new place is, of necessity, somewhat autobiographical. The New Home My two specialties in gardening have been lilies and herbs in my garden in New … Read more
A garden needs dramatic accent plants! Use them sparingly so that they will be effective. In contrast with its surroundings, a plant becomes an accent piece. Color, texture, shape, and size all enter the picture. The tall spires of a verbascum plant punctuate a long flower border. Coleus plants make a Persian carpet of rich … Read more
Although you may have rampant color in your shady garden in spring, summer flowers that bloom prolifically there are scarce. So you turn to other ways of making a shady garden interesting and of keeping it that way all season. Accessories As Focal Points For Your Shady Garden First of all, you can introduce such … Read more
There are times in the garden we want to show off our hard work and creations! Then there are times we want a garden where we can have a backyard privacy. Below are links to give some backyard privacy ideas for adding the element of privacy to your garden. Make A Lattice Privacy Screen On … Read more
When fall arrives and Halloween comes a calling, there are some homes that go all out. It’s not a few pumpkins on the porch, they go all out with creating a whole theme of the spooky, creepy holiday. I use to be “Dr Guts” a few years helping someone out. Here is a collection of … Read more