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Candid Camera
Even the fuzziest snapshot is better than your eyes when it comes to finding the flaws in your landscape design and the gaps in your plantings.
Snap photos of your garden and you’ll see right away where you need to work on the basics of good design — balance, rhythm, and repetition and diversity of line, texture, and color — or where you need to add pink perennials that bloom in August.
An inexpensive 35-mm camera is fine for making your garden record. On your first photo shoot, choose several angles from which to take your shots to get all areas of your garden on film. Then use those same vantage points every time you take a new batch of pictures.
Pot for Every Place
- Colorful annuals dazzle the eyein a small backyard.
Thanks to containers, just about anyone can have a garden. City folk, for example, put down roots on small patios or balconies, using potted trees and vines to screen views and soften skylines. Even apartment dwellers without a garden plot nurture miniature flower beds in window boxes safely secured to sills and ledges. Gardeners with room to spare reap the rewards of containers, as well: In August and September, when many flowering plants are past their prime, potted annuals and perennials can be relied upon to extend summer color right into autumn. Container-grown succulents and small trees are also likely to be moved from here to there, filling in gaps as the season progresses. (Some gardeners practice horticultural sleight-of-hand, sinking their pots right into the ground.)
A living rainbow fills a suburban plot.
At the end of a path or in the elbow of a curved walkway, potted bloomers and shrubs serve as focal points, lending sculptural interest and a dash of wit (for added height, containers may be set on bricks camouflaged with ground cover or cascading plants). In island beds, a single antique urn becomes an eye-catching centerpiece; smaller pots and recycled containers, on the other hand, look best displayed in groups, near the base of an outdoor staircase, for example.
These days, the choice of containers is limited only by a gardener’s imagination. Graniteware basins, food-storage tins, and a host of other flea-market finds look no less charming than a costly cast-iron jardinière discovered on a jaunt through Brittany. Regardless of their provenance, all container gardens have one thing in common: good drainage. Without it, roots rot and plants die. Nutrients, too, are critical to health and beauty. Plants tightly packed (the quickest way to achieve a lush look) will direct their roots down rather than out, resulting in tall flowers with hearty appetites. Regular feedings with a balanced liquid fertilizer will keep annuals blooming all season long.
Love shack
Sheep called it home until an artist turned this small barn into a hideaway for gardening, sketching, and snuggling.
Over their lifetime, the outbuildings on a property may go through many incarnations. This barn turned cottage in a quiet corner of northeastern Connecticut has had such a life. It became a place for the current owners’ children to house their prizewinning sheep. Now that the kids are grown, owner Jilly Walsh decided it would be the perfect spot for a hideaway. Elements were recycled from the main house — the window came from the kitchen and old shutters form a wall of the terrace.
Interactive Fall-Blooming Border
Keep your garden colorful right up until first frost with a selection of late-blooming perennials. This 10- by 5-foot border (repeat for a longer space) is designed for gardens and is backed by a 3- to 4-foot hedge of boxwood (Buxus) or yew (Taxus), or by a fence or wall, and edged along the front with a 1-foot-wide “mowing strip” of pavers to avoid having to edge the lawn.
Kentuckiana Horticultural Clubs
Kentuckiana Horticultural Clubs
Keep up with the latest of gardening clubs and societies local to the Louisville, Kentucky area, and events associated with AHS Region 10 events and meetings. This site contains contact information into various clubs of the surrounding area. For information regarding other regions within the AHS domain, visit the “Daylily and Internet Links” page.
New garden ideas from England
Once a year, London is quite the garden fever. Then that present well-known garden designer at the famous Chelsea Flower Show their latest creations. Here is a selection of the best ideas.
DEZENT planting
An attractive garden need not always be full of colorful flowers. Here great care boxwood balls and grass for another era. Only the Allium is occasionally colored accents. The patch pattern of dark and light gray stone is large flowers dar. The Designerliegen glued laminated timber invite you to relax.
Catnip – Perennial of the Year 2010
The German federal government has been catnip to plant perennials in the year 2010 selected by the. Even the choice of varieties is now easier, because the study group tested a variety of perennials sifting cat mint varieties.
- Combination of blue and yellow: catnip and Yarrow (Achillea)
Cat mints are simple, simple beauty, the big show they prefer to leave their Beetpartnern. From April to July show the perennial their delicate, fragrant flowers. The color palette ranges from delicate violet and blue shades on shades of white to pink-up. Even the foliage is an exercise in restraint, depending on the species, the leaves are silver-colored or bright green.
Delicate Beauties
The catnip (Nepeta) is a genus approximately 250 species overall in the family Lamiaceae. Presumably, the generic name Nepeta derives from the ancient Etruscan town Nepete, today Nepi in Tuscany, from.
Flower Bulb Package
Flower Bulb Package 1: “Spring Flirt”
The exclusive bulb package “Spring Flirt” from our current inspiration garden consists of four different bulbs that bloom all in April. It includes the following varieties (pictured from top left to bottom right):
10 x Narcissus ‘Bridal Crown’ (bulb size 14/16)
40 x Grape ‘Valery Finnis’ (size 8 / 9)
10 x Tulip ‘Calgary’ (Gr. 12 +)
10 x Tulip ‘Happy Family’ (Gr. 12 +)
Price: € 20.35 *
New Varieties for 1999:
Gardeners are looking for new plants every year. Here are new flowers and vegetables that will be featured in 2000 mail order seed catalogs, seed packets or as bedding plants at garden centers. The varieties are listed al-phabetically by class, with the seed source listed in parentheses after the description. The designation “R” means a retail seed company from which gardeners may purchase seed directly by mail order or also in stores that carry the variety in seed packets. A “W” designation indicates a wholesale seed company which does not sell directly to home gardeners, but these varieties should be available in catalogs or as bedding plants at garden centers next spring.
Made for the Shade
It’s a complaint heard by gardeners everywhere: “I don’t have enough sun!” Yet the question remains: Enough sun for what? Just because roses and baby’s breath won’t flourish in your shady backyard is no reason to throw in the trowel. A wide range of plants, from spring bulbs to primroses to ferns, in addition to the plants listed in Ten Shade-Loving Perennials, are available to supply color and interest to all but the shadiest gardens.
