Ornamental Gardens

Stipa ‘Sirocco’ for Winter Color

December 6, 2011

As temperatures fall below freezing, a delightful Stipa arundinacea ‘Sirocco’ keeps on performing beautifully on my winter front porch. Photo copyright Kevin O’Connor.

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Living Walls for Small Spaces – Urban Gardens Guest Post

October 17, 2011

Guest Post: Grow living walls in your home – no matter how small that home may be – with tips in this guest post from Robin Horton of Urban Gardens. It’s the second blog exchange between Urban Gardens and Seasonal Wisdom, exploring the latest in gardening, green living and design. Photo by Minigarden.

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New Proven Winner Plants

September 15, 2011

Each summer, my garden literally bursts into blooms from a wide variety of annuals and perennials. This year was no different. In fact, I was asked by Proven Winners to review a number of their newest plants for my USDA Zone 6b garden over the last few months. Here are a few of my favorites. Photo copyright Teresa [...]

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Growing Poppies in The Garden

August 25, 2011

Poppies are easy to love. The flowers mix beautifully with roses, lavenders and other perennials, and provide a romantic, carefree look to any garden. Best of all, poppies are easy to grow from seeds, and many of them reseed to provide beauty year after year. The above pink ‘Shirley’ poppies (right) and orange ‘California’ poppies [...]

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Growing Great Flower Containers

August 15, 2011

Creating eye-catching flower containers for my garden was easier than usual this summer, thanks to an assortment of Hort Couture plants I was asked to test this growing season. Come look at the results.

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Product Review: Laguna Deck Pond + Fountain Tips

July 10, 2011

There’s been a new addition to my garden in recent weeks. It gurgles and bubbles pleasantly, adding a relaxing ambiance to my deck. Here’s my review of Laguna’s Deck Pond and some advice for enjoying fountains and other water features in your garden… Photo copyright Kevin O’Connor

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Five Great Container Choices for Any Garden

July 5, 2011

This is a debut of a series of exchanges between Urban Gardens and Seasonal Wisdom, exploring the latest in gardening, green living and design. Robin Horton of Urban Gardens shares her five favorite container types for gardens, wherever you are… A garden container can be anything really. What you choose depends on your needs, what you [...]

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Plant a Tree, Win a Prize. (Maybe)

July 1, 2011

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now,” says an old Chinese proverb. Getting people to grow more trees in their neighborhoods and communities is the goal of a quickly growing online community called AmericanGrove.org. To spread the word, they are giving away $50 gift cards [...]

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At Home With P. Allen Smith

May 17, 2011

My mother used to say that when she died, she imagined heaven would look like Charlottesville, Virginia. She really meant Monticello, the famous country estate that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, with its Neoclassic architecture, orderly kitchen gardens and Southern charm. I thought about her often, while touring P. Allen Smith’s 650-acre Moss Mountain Farm, outside of Little Rock, [...]

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Garden Tours: Southern Plantations to French Estates

May 3, 2011

From Southern plantations to European-inspired estates, these three gardens, designed by P. Allen Smith, provided attendees of the first annual Garden2Blog event with plenty of ideas to apply to our own outdoor spaces. Even if our gardens aren’t nearly as big as the one photographed at the Murphy residence in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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