December 13th, 2011 — Design, English Gardens, Gardening Tips, Landscaping
Green lawns that feature picturesque views of the most stunning aspects of your garden design can be made more functional using garden furniture crafted from wood, especially if this furniture features an antique or aged appearance. Romantic, cottage style benches and outdoor furniture fits in especially well, especially along with arbors that are quaint and trellises that are fragrantly adorned. These things create all of the appeal that the country is known for without taking away from the modern beauty that your home possesses. Other exciting ideas for an English style country garden landscape design include quaint foot bridges, gazebos and rustic fences as well.
Wildlife in the English Garden Design
Traditional English style country gardens were teeming with a variety of different birds, insects and other wildlife. This life only serves to complement the natural beauty that the landscape style possesses on its own. Garden accessories such as rustic style bird feeders and bird baths and water gardens are one excellent way for you to attract a wide variety of different species into your outdoor living space, allowing a breath of life into your garden in the process.
There are also a number of ground coverings and plants that are well known to be attractive to a variety of different wildlife, including humming birds and butterflies. Some of these plants including fragrant clover, lavender, and small bushes featuring brightly colored berries should all be planted all throughout your garden space. If you create natural arrangements of rocks or undisturbed grassy areas, these will also be nicely inviting to wildlife in the area.
English Garden Plants
The country garden style is definitely characterized by the presence of a lavish collection of shrubs, flowers and vines in a wide variety of different vibrant hues which are complemented by majestic and curving trees that provide relaxing shade to keep visitors to your garden out of the sun.
You should select a wide variety of different country garden style plants to suit your landscape design, including blooms capable of providing color in each different season throughout the year. Some of the flowers and shrubs that you may want to consider will include:
- Choose traditional country honeysuckles for their aromas, rose bushes, primrose, foxglove, lily of the valley in shady areas and other traditional country plants.
- Select potted planters and herb gardens filled with petunias, cornflowers and violas, as they are well suited for tranquil and shady English garden styles.
- Finally, choose native flowers such as geraniums, peonies and sweet peas among other native flowers that will thrive in your English country garden landscape design.
Ultimately, what you choose to do with your English country garden landscape design is up to you, but the design ideas we’ve talked about will definitely steer you into the right direction.
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Originally posted 2009-08-18 03:10:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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November 14th, 2011 — Gardening Tips, Ideas, Landscaping, Water Gardens
Although the water country gardens depicted in the magazines are generally quite large and complex, there is no reason why you cannot create your own stunning water garden easily and without much effort. The trick to water gardening easily and effectively has to do with properly planning and customizing your water garden to your own tastes, your own abilities, your own budget, your own assistance and the amount of property that you have. Within these specific guidelines, you will be able to effectively build anything you want, beginning with a small and charming container garden and expanding to something as large and complex as a series of small streams with interconnected ponds filled with koi.
Easier, smaller types of water gardens are definitely a good place to get started. The smaller that your little water garden is in general, the less expensive and the less time consuming it is going to be in terms of installation as well as maintenance. You should not feel that your water garden will be looked down upon simply because it is small – Because all that really matters is that you love and cherish your water garden. You can always grow your water garden into something more amazing as time goes on, adding additional water features, fish and plants as you go along. You can even add additional ponds, creating feeder streams that connect them all together.
If you suspect at any point that you do want a larger pond, then you can consider a container water garden to start, slowly adding until you have the space and the water supply that you want. This task is definitely easy to complete, and it does not have to take up much space if you do it correctly. There is no harm in simply slowly growing your water garden as you go. This will make sure that your most important considerations are always kept in mind, including as mentioned before, your own tastes, your own abilities, your own budget, your own assistance and the amount of property that you have.
There are some other considerations that you need to make including the placement of your water garden, the micro climate within your yard and the water garden style that you want to create in your yard. You are going to want to put a lot of time and thought into these three considerations in other to make sure that you get the most out of your water garden. If you do not put enough thought into these things, then you may end up disappointed in the results of your water garden endeavor, which would be a waste of time and money. The more time and effort that you put into these things, the placement of your water garden, the micro climate within your yard and the water garden style that you want to create in your yard, the better your results will be in the end.
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Originally posted 2009-07-20 05:37:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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October 19th, 2011 — Ideas, Landscaping
In the days of old England, peasants owned small homes with small gardens and acted as workers in the small villages. These gardens, despite their small size, had to be able to supply the entire family with all of their gardening needs. The kitchen garden would consist of fruits, herbs and vegetables, and sometimes even flowers would be grown. The most popular flowers that you will find in this style of country garden landscaping includes hollyhocks, herbs, daisies and delphiniums. One of the most popular herbs that you will find in an English country garden landscaping project is mint. English cottage gardens and country gardens exhibit a style that has evolved through time based on necessity, and now these garden styles are rich with mystical charm, rich color and beautiful scents.
Learning how to plant a basic English country garden is actually simple. The important thing to understand is the fact that home grown produce was vital to the survival of these peasants in the past. While you may not rely as heavily on growing your own produce as was common place in the past, your English country garden landscape will be able to provide some delicious sustenance for your family by giving you a chance to grow your own herbs, vegetables and fruits. Another option is go to with a garden style the way the landowners or gentry did it. These country gardens were usually very formal in nature with straight lines, box hedges, stone paths and beautiful, wonderful statues or fountains.
A lot of the principles behind the cottage or country garden revolve around the fact that plants and gardens emotionally affect us. The cottage garden concept was actually born of this idea. Claude Monet had an excellent example of a famous cottage garden born from this concept. His garden was full of roses and other plants covering arbors and growing over fences. This informal style of growing tall and wonderful perennials to create a profusion of substance and textures quickly became popular, offering numerous advantages including reducing the number of weeds that grow because branching out plants and trees keep the sun from reaching the ground where the weeds would most surely germinate.
Creating an English country garden should not prohibit you from planting seeds closely together. In fact, this act will help to create the exact look that you should be trying for. Plant feathery and spiky plants together, and combine delicate leaved plants with bold ones. Plant upright plants next to sprawling plants. Let the different textures and colors mingle and mix and you can create something truly wonderful. Combine flowers with fruits, vegetables and herbs and create an excellent all purpose garden, even when you only have a small amount of pace to work with.
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Originally posted 2009-01-13 05:32:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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October 19th, 2011 — Design, Gardening Tips, Landscaping
The quaint types of garden that we once knew have been the origin for a wide variety of today’s more elegant designs for country garden landscaping. All throughout time, gardening has proven itself to be a truly vital part of our existence. During the seventeenth century, cultivation and gardening had evolved into a great deal more than simply sources for medicinal and food ingredients. People began to put together lush landscapes that were completely full of fragrant and colorful blooms, and they were used in order to surround many homes as well as cottages, and this provided a truly relaxing and gorgeous space that served as an outdoor extension to an indoor living space.
European country gardens first began to appear around charming style English cottage homes, especially in the 1600s during the Tudor period. Blooms that were flourishing began to brighten all of the pathways that would wind around beds of herbs and vegetables and truly romantic flowers draped over arbors, providing a space that was enjoyable and relaxing, allowing people to take advantage of the lush garden spaces around them.
French country landscaping designs have often featured a similar natural essence, featuring bountiful vegetables and herbs among a number of overflowing beds of flowers in all colors. French gardens also added a truly Mediterranean flair to the country style landscape design concept.
Your typical French garden would definitely incorporate the romantic flair of lavender plants as well as luscious Mediterranean foliage combined with the traditional pastel flora and soft curves associated with traditional English gardens. These combinations of elements are capable of creating a flair that creates an outdoor space that is refined as well as elegant without sacrificing function or simplicity.
For many centuries now, fountains have served as a truly essential element in creating the Provencal lifestyle. These served as charming monuments that served as the only available supply of water for many small villages throughout the region and so throughout the years, these water elements have come to represent the soothing and simple lifestyle of living in the Provence.
By the time the 19th century rolled around, leading landscaping architects all throughout the world had begun to combine the simplistic and yet incredible beauty of English cottage gardens with the sophistication naturally associated with French style country gardens in order to create a completely new style of landscape design, commonly referred to as the American country garden landscape design.
The country landscape designs of today are quite heavily influenced by traditional styles of gardens, and so they are ideal for a number of different modern residences, especially those that still feature Victorian or Renaissance elements or style.
The trick to creating a good country garden is to combine function with form. You can have a beautiful garden surrounding your home, but if it is not also functional, then you have not created a true country garden.
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October 13th, 2011 — Landscaping
Country gardens can be gorgeous and many of us have dreamed having one just like we’ve seen in gardening magazines. Though the gardens featured there are often professional gardens where the owners have devoted hundreds of hours to planning, designing and maintaining, we picture lush patches of flowers in our own yards that could rival those photographs. Then when our gardens pale by comparison we wonder where we went wrong.
It’s important to realize that few of us have the time or money to create gardens like the ones in landscaping and country garden magazines. If you’ll stand for no less and you have the money, you can use a trick of the affluent to go from bare plot to gorgeous country garden in a few days–buy all the plants and flowers fully grown, or almost grown. Some of the best looking gardens are created, not from seed and careful nurturing, but because the owner went to a greenhouse and selected several ready plants for his or her yard. Barring that, it’s important to realize that while your country garden might never rival those on the cover of a magazine, your garden should be a reflection of your likes and your personality while being something you can maintain.
How much room do you really have? If your yard is small, it’s probably easy to be envious of sprawling country gardens. And you may want to plan a garden similar to one you’ve seen. But remember that you can’t fill every inch of your yard with flowers and vegetation. You’re best planning a few border patches of flowers, a flower bed around the base of a tree or a mailbox, and sprinklings of plants here and there. Even a small yard can benefit from gardening and landscaping, but often other touches besides plants themselves help make it beautiful. One garden plot can be made more dramatic with a path leading to it or some carefully placed statuary.
How much time do you really have? Even if you have the space to rival a magazine-cover country garden, do you have the time to maintain it properly? Think this over carefully while you’re designing and planning your landscaping. Even if you choose ready-to-go plants instead of seeds or tiny plants that need to grow into the space, a garden will still take work. There’s pruning and trimming, pests to worry about, weeding . . . if your time is limited a small country garden will probably be best no matter how badly you want an acre of flowerbeds.
Is it really what you want? Your neighbors might grow roses, there might be a Rose Fest in your town every year, rose growing competitions, a Rose Bowl and a Rose Queen. So you might decide that you should have roses, too. Learn everything about growing roses. Then decide if you’re willing to devote the time required and do you even really like roses that much? Grow what you think is beautiful, and what you can maintain.
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Originally posted 2009-01-08 14:20:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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