Fresh Start
Transform small spaces into a garden brimming with vegetables and herbs mall on space doesn't have to mean sparse on trcsh, tasty vegetables and herbs. With some inventive gardening, even a skimpy site can yield an abundant harvest. Start by planting herbs and vegetables in containers. Grow salad greens in window boxes. Save soil space by growing sprawling varieties on teepees and trellises. Give trailers a placc to flourish on balcony railings. Intensify the harvest by building soil-enriched...
Summer
this garden the envy of the neighborhood In early summer, this charming garden in Bristol, Connecticut, is filled with flowers and birds attracted to the birdbath. The west-facing porch, with a full 180 sweep of garden, is my favorite place for morning coffee, says homeowner gardener, Irene Jeruss. Her color palette includes red, pink, white, blue and pale yellow. Roses dominate the garden now, with pink 'Sarah Bernhardt' peonies blooming a few weeks later. Two varieties of Shasta daisies...
Simply Charming
Make your entry garden colorful and cozy This front porch garden makes a charming and welcoming entryway. The owner used only white, silver, pink and blue plants. It's low maintenance because the groundcovers help keep weeds from sprouting in the garden beds and between the pathway stones. This pretty garden stays in bloom most of the year in its sunny Southern California location, but these plants will do well in nearly any area, just replace the jasmine with clematis and the agapanthus with...
Honeysuckle
Grown as a versatile vine or a colorful shrub, this classic plant is a garden favorite Most think of honeysuckle as that wild vine bearing white to gold trumpet-shaped flowers whose ncctar they sipped as children, and whose fragrance sweet, delectable, and lemony perfumed the air of spring and summer. As 17th-century diarist Samuel Pcpys wrote, the bugles blow scent instead of sound. Gardeners are often surprised to learn of the great variety of honeysuckle. While some twine into vines, others...
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Within 45 Days Or We'll Replace It FREE To ensure best results, we ship you living sheets of genuine Amazoy Zoysia Grass, harvested direct from our farms. Plugs are not cut all the way through. Before planting, simply finish the separation by cutting T-sq. Plugs with shears or knife. Then follow the irvduded easy instructions to plant Plugs into small plug holes about a foot apart. Our guarantee and planting method are your assurance of lawn success backed by more than S decades of specialized...
Sue Aylett
An indoor-garden pro extols the joy of gardening in baskets and pots A British-born designer and stylist whose garden-related products include the furniture, baskets and pots shown here. In 2004 she received a Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Sundries Trophy at the fabled Chelsea Flower Show. Her London home is a converted Victorian coach house and stable complex. Our hallway, the old tack room, still has its original tack hooks and cupboards, she says. Home is not only where she lives but...
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