Landscaping
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Pergola
House plant in center of annuals
Trellis in back right corner
Trellis
Urns
Fireplace
Rock
Crushed stone is a fabulous, easy way to create a path with a satisfying underfoot crunch. Just make sure that you lay porous, draining polypropylene underneath the stone and edge it with brick, steel or large stones to keep your stones from migrating. Make your own gravel pathway
spray paint iron wall treatments a fun bold color
The combination of hostas, ferns and grasses in this photo provides layers of texture that create visual interest, even though there are no blooms.
Near the top of my list of plants I wouldn't garden without is baptisia (Baptisia australis and cultivars, zones 3 to 9). It sometimes goes by 'false indigo' because Native Americans used it to make a blue dye. Its blue spires point to the heavens this time of year, and it grows well in average to poor soil, in full sun to part shade, because it's in the pea family (which means it makes its own nitrogen), and has a taproot (which means it's best to plant it in one spot permanently).
color combo!
Shaping a cloud-form hedge is easier than you think. Imagine billowing clouds as you shape, cutting only into top layers of the bush. It is easier to do this with a hedge that has already grown out for a couple of years; then you can make the undulations as extreme as you like.
hammock on front porch?
Ajania (Ajania pacifica, zones 5 to 9) always stops me in my tracks. This isn't my favorite photo of it, but trust me — this one's a stunner for sun. A relative of chrysanthemums (sometimes called pacific chrysanthemum), it makes a tight, mounded clump of the most silver leaves throughout the growing season, 1 to 2 feet tall and 1 to 3 feet wide. It's usually the last to bloom in the garden, sometimes as late as early November even in cold climates. Its flowers are tiny gold buttons. Give it a sunny spot and well-drained soil, especially if your winters are wet.
instructions to build firepit at: http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/535448
Rather than a single expanse of pavers, tiles that mimic a Moroccan rug add definition.
While the ingredients are quite traditional — a lawn, ground cover, flowering shrubs and a specimen tree — this design utilizes shape quite well. The overall look is sophisticated, beginning with the strong, rounded lawn and continuing to the curved planting bands that emanate from it, all the way to the arborvitae hedge, which provides mass at the perimeter of this lovely, green garden.
low, meandering wall along creek
Consider "Spurge" in new garden
A classic trellis provides vertical interest and doubles the planting space in your garden. A sweet potato vine or even a watermelon vine works well.
Parasoleil privacy screens
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