Garden Design
English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition
Margaret Hensel (Hardcover) W. W. Norton Company 2000-07
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what plants do I need plant?how do I plan it?
Not too many different plants.Start with bulbs,snowdrops than crocuses than daffs then tulips.After that your first CPlants will be flowering.Look up early perennials than mid season than late.This will take you up to early November.
Decide first how many different plants you are going to use.and how many of each plant ie 3 or 5 etc.Then the flowering order than the flowering heights.Make an empty bed with good drainage and slightly raised.Mark out with sand the borders of each plant.
If you can't be bothered to do all of that research than simply go to the garden centre often.Buying as you see flowers will ensure you will buy plants for whole season.So something that flowers in april and may has to be bought at that time as it will not be available outside it's flowering period and something flowering in august will not be available in may.So keep going to garden centre and buy right through the season.
Lupins foxgloves are great and l like echinacea (cone flower) and perennial lobelias and campanulas and iris and penstamens and roses and 100s of others.
Gieo Pensoneault, host for The New American Landscape Channel takes you on a tour of this well designed cottage garden style. This Cottage garden ...
in my backyard, I live in the country/ city area, and it is small approx 40 feet wide and approx 20-30 feet (it definatley looks much wider then long in length) and there is also a ditch to sweep away water when it pours really bad, does anybody have advise on how to decorate it, or know of any good websites to go to ( i am more a visual person, if you have pictures that would be nice) and also would anybody know of how to still use up the space by the ditch?
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An English cottage garden is a very good choice for your area. Think of an English garden as either informal or formal. You will need to plan, prep, and plant the garden. There are many different trees, flowers and shrubs you can use. Most people today want a low maintenance garden with a lot of evergreen shrubs. Think about doing pathways through the garden. There are many different styles of pathways. Decorative stones, no cement, natural pine straw or mulch. Also think about planting in masses. (a group of one plant together) I have many different ideas on my website. Take a look at the different designs as well as articles, pathways and plant selections. Good luck to you and if you need advice on specific plants and ideas, feel free to contact me.
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I have a large space - 26' - along the front of my house. I think I'm going to make the bed about 3 or 4' in width. What's the best way to lay out my garden? Should it be symmetrical or just bunched and more free (like a cottage garden)? I'm thinking of using Delphinium, Echinacea, Daylilies, Oriental Lilies, small shrub roses (2'x3') and then some small ornamental grasses and 2-4" border flowers in the front. I think I'm also going to put a weeping redbud on the left side. Do you have any ideas for how I should do this... I'm at a loss!!!
Whether you design a formal garden (symmetrical) or informal garden (cottage style) is up to you. However, here are a few thing to consider. Mass together perennials of the same type in groups of three or five. Try to have more than one group of each species through the bed. This will help avoid the "one of everything" look. As a general rule, taller perennials (as well as the ornamental grasses) work well towards the back. When they're not in bloom they'll serve as a backdrop for the small plants. Try to plan the perennial bed so that there is something in bloom in a few different areas of the garden from spring to fall.
Good luck and have fun.
Here's an article I wrote for my site http://www.gardenlistings.com
http://www.gardenlistings.com/Perennials .htm
I am looking for information regarding the background and origins of the "tropical gardening" style for a garden design course that I am doing. There is a lot of information available regarding Zen Gardens, English Country Gardens, Cottage Gardens, etc but very little about the background and history of tropical gardens. Can anyone suggest any helpful resources that could assist me with finding answers? Thanks in advance!
The Tropical Garden by William Warren, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni (Photographer), opens with an essay tracing the historical interest in tropical plants. Royal and religious, private and public tropical gardens are discussed:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 50028198X/toptropicals-20
Daniel Headrick, “Botany, Chemistry, and Tropical Development,” Journal of World History notes that the growing demand of Western consumers and industries for tropical products... helped spur relations between the North Atlantic countries and the tropics in the century before 1914.
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8 &p=background+and+origins+of+the+%22 tropical+gardening%22&fr=slv8-sbc&am p;u=www.learner.org/channel/courses/worl dhistory/support/reading_19_3.pdf&w= background+origins+%22tropical+gardening %22&d=Upqxn0fiSA0p&icp=1&.in tl=us
Tropical Garden Design, by Made Wijayahas includes a history of tropical colonial gardens:
http://www.amazon.com/Tropical-Garden-De sign-Made-Wijaya/dp/9625938176
" Tropical gardens can contain a wide variety of plants, but some require lots of heat while others require lots of water. Tropical gardens also don't often survive freezing temperatures either, so many people in cooler climates choose to create tropical container gardens which can be taken inside when bitter cold winter temperatures come around.
Most tropical plants require a lot of sunlight though, so if you're planting them into a ground based garden or raised garden bed, be sure to choose the sunniest spot you can find in your yard. You'll want to plant tropical plants and flowers in areas which get a minimum of six hours direct sunlight each day. Some tropical garden plants such as bougainvillea, thrive on irregular watering patterns"
Esperanza and Spanish Broom are excellent plants to put into a tropical garden, which are both heat and drought tolerant. These plants produce bright showy yellow flowers that bloom continuously from spring through fall.
http://weekendgardening.com/tropical-gar dening/tropical-gardening.html
Tropical backyard:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juancarlosa rzola/2304749676/
Various tropical landscapes:
http://www.gardenphuket.com/landscape/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72793939@N0 0/2562828725/
http://i.rentalo.com/p/92275/8644230l.jp g
http://www.botanescapes.com/landscaping- portfolio/gallery-images.html (scroll through the landscapes)
http://www.tropicalfoliagegarden.com/con tents.htm
http://www.tropicallandscape.net/gallery .html
http://www.hmdesign.biz/DesignSamples.as px
Use plants that give you a lush tropical feel, like palms, ferns and elephant ears, but also use water features, such as a fountain, waterfall, pond or stream:
http://www.tampalandscapedesign.com/page 7.html
http://www.plant-care.com/1546-tropical- landscaping.html
Many plants grown as houseplants, such as cactus & Agave, thrive outside in a semi-arid tropical environment. "In regions where the heat of the growing season is followed by frost or freezing temperatures, tropical plants are often dug up and overwintered, used as houseplants, or simply repurchased for use the next growing season."
http://www.extension.org/pages/Tropical_ Plants_in_the_Landscape
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02 /3135729587/
Plants like Cannas give a tropical lookto the landscape:
http://www.garden.org/subchannels/landsc aping/ground?q=show&id=2039
Using Bromelias:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14077752@N0 3/1592977394/
Tips on types of plants to use & what type of hardscape (permanent features)... like bamboo...you'll need :
http://www.ehow.com/how_4663553_design-t ropical-landscape.html?ref=fuel&utm_ source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_ campaign=yssp_art
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danial_iema n/3044303237/
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gr_lawns_l andscaping/article/0,2029,DIY_13852_2388 771,00.html
Videos of Tropical Paradise Backyard Retreats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwbRjAy- gQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnQjRhMv 0g&feature=related
Good luck !!! Hope this is helpful.
I'm trying to design a cottage garden in a very weird shaped front yard and would love to be able to send in a picture and get some idea.
Is there such a site ?
Thanks and have a great day !
Yeah, that'd be nice if there was one, like ratemylandscape.com haha. that'd be a great idea for a website, where people can post their landscapes and get comments/suggests on it. but i am unaware of one.
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