PALETTE - Garden Guide
Foraging In The Forest: Finding Materials That Link Your Home To The Great Outdoors
Thinking about redecorating? Before you run to the nearest interior design store, consider looking to the forests instead. Natural, minimally-worked materials help make an interior that seamlessly transitions from the outdoors...
Fall Tree Colors - Sugar Maple - Acer Saccharum
Acer saccharumFamily - Aceracerceae - MaplesThe Sugar Maple is one of the more colorful autumn trees. It is also one of the more common trees found in the eastern deciduous tree forests. Its leaves can turn one of two colors,...
The Great History of Roses
It was roses, roses all the way.- Robert Browning What's in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2
A Traipse Through the Tulips
Flowering bulbs can change your garden from being merely a plot of dirt and rocks adorned with a few scraggly plants to being an absolute showplace, with splashes of brilliant color. Bulbs provide a good investment in terms of...
How to Have an English Country Garden
Learn to Plant a Basic English Cottage GardenIn the days of old England, many of the workers in small villages were called peasants, and they owned small houses with very small gardens. These gardens would have to supply the...
Landscaping Looks To Make Your Garden Magical
There is nothing more relaxing than spending time in a beautiful, well cared for garden. No matter what the size of our garden, a charming landscaped garden can improve the appearance and appeal of our house a hundredfold. In...
Downsizing Your Retirement Garden
A recent stroll through my retirement community revealed to me how truly creative and artistic people can be. These retirement homes with their tiny gardens are truly miniature works of art. These are probably tiny examples of...
Colour in the Garden
Gardeners, like all artists, use the power of colour to make and enhance the mood and impact of their landscape design. Through our understanding of the properties of colour we can elevate our compositions balance and...
The Great History Of Roses
It was roses, roses all the way.- Robert Browning What's in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2 Roses have a long and...
Tips For Designing Your Rose Garden
I think the use of landscape roses makes the exterior of any house more graceful, fragrant and inviting. If you select the right varieties to accent and compliment the home's style and your vision, landscape roses will...
Fun With Flower Gardening
Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day. Flowers smell nice, look beautiful, and brighten your day. Flower gardening is a simple inexpensive hobby that's loads of fun. While most people grow flowers for...
A History Of The Romantic Rose
It was roses, roses all the way. - Robert BrowningWhat's in a name? That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet.- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2-
Roses have a long and...
Simple Ways To Create Your Outdoor Oasis
Decorating your outdoor space is as important as decorating your interior space. It requires just as much structure as an indoor space would.Like your interior space, the first thing you must determine is the color scheme for...
Landscaping With Roses
The use of roses in a landscaping project will make the process all the more enjoyable. You will also achieve great looking results given the choice of shapes and colors roses offer your design palette.Landscaping With RosesIf...
Elements of Contemporary Garden Design
There are many elements of contemporary garden design. Of course, there are more than a few different styles of modern garden design and each individual has a right to express his/her own style in his/her own garden. Thats...
Cedar Garden Benches
Garden benches are made of a variety of materials that can range from wood to stone. The materials used in the making of garden benches, usually determine the type of garden, in which the benches are to be used. In case of a...
Home Garden
It is difficult to determine a criterion, according to which a cultivated plant can be called fashionable. A new discovery of stock-breeders? A bright hybrid? An exotic, which settled in our latitudes recently? And may be this...
Colour in the Garden
Gardeners, like all artists, use the power of colour to make and enhance the mood and impact of their landscape design. Through our understanding of the properties of colour we can elevate our compositions balance and...
The Perfect Beginner Perennial Flower
One of the most popular perennials in North American gardens is the daylily or Hemerocallis. This wonderful plant deserves its best-seller status because it thrives almost everywhere in the garden. It will tolerate just about...