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Garden Designs

Please click on the following links for the various garden designs that we offer “FREE” for your use.

Perennial Garden Plants, Your Expert Guide for Flower Gardening

Useful and practical guide for perennial flower gardening and design authored by a Plant Biologist and a Consulting Horticulturist.

Plants Tolerant of Black Walnut

Plants Tolerant of Black Walnut

Types of Flowers

When discussing the various types of flowers in the entire plant kingdom it becomes a project of enormous proportions and perhaps would take even a very long lifetime of diligent wor

Perennial Garden

A perennial garden has the ability with proper care to return year after year and reward us with fantastic displays of color.

Ornamental Grass

During the past decade ornamental grass has reached a high level of popularity and rightly so.

Flower Guide

Perennials have become enormously popular with the gardening public and we will touch the surface with comments and instructions as found in our flower guide for perennials.

Perennial Shade Garden

Many gardeners consider planning and planting a perennial shade garden a challenge but I have always considered it a great opportunity to bring light into an otherwise dark section of ones outdoor liv

Shade Perennials

Many gardeners consider planning and planting shade perennials a challenge but I have always considered it a great opportunity to bring light into an otherwise dark section of ones outdoor living area

Rock Garden

The rock garden can be more appealing if the plants and rocks together form a well planned theme.

Perennial Gardening

Perennial gardening involves using hardy plants that return each year to reward us for our efforts.

Container Water Garden

A container water garden is actually very old in concept as they were in wide use at some of the finer estates across the country for decades.

Pictorial Flower Guide

Our pictorial flower guide showcases some of the most beautiful and unusual ornamental perennial flowering plants.

Perennial Flower Bulbs

Perennial flower bulbs describes a rather large selection of both hardy and non-hardy plant materials

Garden Pond Kit

A high quality garden pond kit should contain the following

Rock Gardening

Rock gardening at its best involves the use of rocks of all sizes from ornamental gravel up to boulder size and when plant materials are added the mixture becomes complete.

Gardening Advice

Decent gardening advice with emphasis on getting straight to the point with as little nonsense as possible.

White Flowering Perennials

White flowering perennials add great contrast in the flower bed and tend to make other colors appear to be more intense.

Purple Flowers

Whether used in mass or planted to contrast with white, orange, gold or yellow, purple flowers make a bold statement.

Hardy Perennials

For one reason or another I have always been intrigued by hardy perennials that have the ability to return and thrive in the garden from year to year.

Vinca Ground Cover

Vinca ground cover performs wonderfully in the shade garden using various varieties of both vinca minor and vinca major.

Perennial Flowering Vines

There are numerous perennial flowering vines that should thrive for gardeners of all skill levels if attention is paid to several factors as follows

Ivy Plant

Whenever I think of an Ivy plant my thoughts go directly to English or Thorndale ivy as these to me is what this family is all about.

Perennial Vines

Best known of all vines probably is one of two or three choices.

Garden Water Falls

Garden water falls probably add more to a water garden than any other single feature.

Water Gardens

The garden industry experts advise us that the rapidly growing field of water gardens enjoys the lofty level of number one in home landscaping desirable features

Garden Ponds

For the last decade garden ponds have been the fastest growing area in the horticulture industry.

Switchgrass

Ornamental switchgrass varieties for landscaping interest

Shade Garden

The perennial shade garden can be one of the most intriguing and satisfying garden styles

Landscaping

Landscaping forms vary drastically from stuffy formal to calm and casual.

Perennial Grasses

Perennial grasses can be used as ornamentals or as ground covers in landscape beds.

Fountain Grasses

Fountain grasses or the pennisetum family members make up a group of perhaps the most popular ornamental grass varieties that are used in landscaping.

Container Gardening Adds Beauty To A Garden

Container gardening can become the heart and soul of your perennial garden.

Container Plants

When it comes to selecting container plants capable of thriving in a refined environment an almost endless list could be composed as there are so many varieties to choose from.

Joe-Pye Weed

Joe-pye weed (Eupatorium purpureum) should be used a great deal more than it is as you will find it useful as a back ground planting in your perennial garden

Ground Covers

All too often excellent ground covers are not used because landscape designers and home gardeners feel that taller varieties do not capture the role of an effective ground cover.

Wildflowers

Native wildflowers can be an attractive and useful addition to almost any landscape.

Build a Water Garden

So you have decided to build a water garden either using your own design or one that was created for you by your landscape designer or consultant.

Transplanting of Perennials

The successful transplanting of perennials is actually very simple.

Annual Flowers For Your Garden

Annual flowers provide an incredible variety of color and interest for your garden.

Annual Flowers for Shade Garden

Annual flowers for shade garden adds beauty to your shade areas.

Summer Annual Flowers

Summer annual flowers work very well in your flower garden regardless of where you live

Full Sun Perennials

See our recommendations for the best ornamental full sun perennials.

Perennial Plant Care

Perennial plant care is a guide that hopefully will be of assistance to you in your gardening with perennials.

Bog Garden

. A bog garden can even have a filter or will do quite well without one.

Elephant Ear Plant

Elephant ear plant is a beautiful tropical foliage plant that can reach a height of eight feet in the garden and provide a form and texture that no other plant offers.

Best Annual Flowers

The best annual flowers bring joy to gardners all across this great country.

Perennial Garden Plans

Perennial garden plans can be a simple or complex design of a project as you care to create.

Landscaping with Rocks

Landscaping with rocks can be viewed or thought of in several ways.

Perennial Herbs

The following is a list of excellent perennial herbs with cold hardiness zones listed as a guide.