Ilona’s Garden

From the Ground Up: An Ohio Garden

Creating your own landscape

Hi! I’m Ilona- yes, there is a real “Ilona“, and I have a real garden.
Since the 1970’s I have been interested in creating a home garden and all things pertaining to gardening. It’s something I am never tired of, although at times I’ve worked ’til I could work no more. I thought that there were other gardeners out there that would like the landscaping shortcut of an “over the fence” online resource in making their own gardens. So I started creating pages in the old website, ‘Ilona’s Reflecting Pool‘ (1998) to jot down my ideas on designing and growing a pretty home garden. Loving everything about plants, I put together articles about combining them and describing different types of design styles, all the things that had intrigued me in this growing passion.

You can have a better garden if you:

• improve your soil-I experimented and researched and now I want to share all that! In quest of a good garden?
• plant in harmony with your land -finding the “spirit of your garden”
• choose the right plants for your soil and climate- if you need detailed information on particular plants check the ‘Plant Highlight‘ pages, with description, growing requirements, and fun facts.

The purpose of this site:

Creating your dream of what a yard should be? I’d love to help you with landscape ideas and planting information. All parts of this site are geared towards sharing my experience of the joy of gardening with you..

Your home and all the extensions of it, whether the yard or your houseplants, influence your feeling of well being and that of those around you. Sometimes it is surprising how much!

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