HILLSIDE - Garden Guide
Rock Gardens
While "Rock Gardens" is the modern name, another term used in connection with natural rock gardening is "rockeries". The biggest problem is to determine the plants that are likely to succeed under the conditions that can be...
Drought Resistant Gardens and Planting from Cuttings
Drought Resistant GardensAmaryllis can tell you from experience, that she has seen lush drought-resistant gardens that give color year round.She learned about it by accident, in California, when she stumbled upon a property a...
How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the fastest...
An Olive Grove Of Your Own
We have about fifty and a half olive trees in the grove below our house. Im not certain about the fifty it could be anywhere between forty and sixty but I am absolutely certain about the half. You see, there is an olive...
3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Garden
Hillside landscaping is considered one of the challenging jobs by landscape designers. the simple reason for this is the problem of soil erosion and inability to hold water that is necessary for
healthy growth of...
3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Garden
Hillside landscaping is considered one of the challenging jobs by landscape designers. the simple reason for this is the problem of soil erosion and inability to hold water that is necessary for healthy growth of plants.Before...
Growing Thyme
Thymus is a genus of over 400 species of aromatic hardy and non-hardy perennials with very small, fragrant leaves and twiggy stems. Thymes are native to Mediterranean Europe, as far as the British Isles. These wonderful...
Landscaping On A Hill
Your home landscaping design can be frequently overwhelming and challenging for most people. This can be especially true when your yard is a steep hill. If this describes your own backyard, then you need to realize that there...
Gardens of New Zealand
When I was a teenager in school my hero was Captain James Cook, the British sea captain who made three voyages of circumnavigation around the world, before being killed by cannibals in the Hawaiian Islands, which he discovered....
Planting Daffodils
Wordsworth was right:WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
The Last Chore of the Gardening Year : Raking Leaves
When we see colorful fall leaves on the trees, they are beautiful! Red maples, yellow tulip trees and other bright colors light up the neighborhood as well as the hillsides. The downside to the color is that the mechanism that...
Lavender
"Lavender" brings to mind both a color and an aroma. The genus name, Lavendula, comes from the Latin word, lavare, meaning "to wash". Lavender has been used as a perfuming agent since ancient times. It experienced a brief...
How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the...
Gardening for Life
Have you ever noticed how happy and centered gardeners tend to be? Could it be from communing with nature, sharing nutrient-rich harvests with others, or knowing that every increased amount of greenery helps battle the...
Waterfalls and Streams
Waterfalls are truly inspirational in a garden setting, with the larger waterfalls adding a new dimension to a landscape with the sound of cascading water tumbling over rocks, and smaller waterfalls providing a more tranquil...
Adding Beauty To Your Garden With An Arbor
Garden arbors are set up as shaded places in home gardens or public parks where one can relax and rest. These open frameworks are typically made of latticework or rustic work, functioning also as a trellis for climbing or...
Creating Ambiance With Gardens
During his 40-year career as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has designed numerous garden spaces, many involving his wife Carolyn. The best example of their work can be seen at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm,...
Choosing The Right Plants When Hillside Landscaping Will Help Control Soil Erosion
Determine The Amount Of Area To Be Used As Well As How To Use That AreaA good hillside landscaping project would involve having steps running up the hillside as well as a retaining wall. The presence of steep slopes is a...