Garden Design Ideas

I  remember seeing Coral Bells   growing in my grandmothers garden.   They had ordinary green  leaves  with  small pink flowers...

Conifer Cones  Color  in the garden is sometimes found in the oddest  place.  One does not always look at the end of a conifer branch t...

  January at Longwood  Gardens Lets start with the fact that I am a lazy gardener. So when I find a perennial that is easy to ca...

The Dancing Peacock  The leaves on this Japanese Maple make you wonder if an artist had a hand in creating this tree. Very appropriately...

Garden Accoutrements  Garden design should not stop with shrubs and perennials.  Garden Art, found treasures, created artwork, ...

Eleven Plants That Will Not Disappoint Your Garden Picea pungens 'Globosa Nana' 1.FERNSPRAY FALSE CYPRESS -Chamaecypar...

Getting the right plants together in you landscape is not easy. Right amount of sun, right soil conditions, and the hardest part " lo...

Oriental Spruce The Oriental Spruce is a conifer that makes the average garden look great. In most cases conifers are evergreens, ho...

Viburnums - Three seasons of Interest. Viburnum dilitatum is one of the several viburnums in my garden. It is an outstanding shrub that blo...

Gardening is full of mistakes, you just can't give up I am always looking for new ways to display plants in my garden. I also am...

Echiveria is a plant that has found a home in my garden. It is not a hardy plant in my zone 6 garden, so it requires that I dig it up in the...