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Dependable information to support your landscaping efforts~ Hi! I’m Ilona- yes, there is a real “Ilona“, and I have a real garden. Welcome to my personal garden site. On this site I try to give you lots of information, the type that I always wanted from my resources. The Background Story ...
Five Container Tips and Five Container Recipes
Five Tips For Happy Containers Use sphagnum moss to retain moisture. Planting in sun? Don’t use dark colored containers which soak up more heat. Use the largest containers to give your plants the best root growing environment. Larger containers look more impressive, too. How you water is an...
Your Own French Potager
There are Kitchen gardens, and then there is the French potager. Like saying, there is cuisine, and then there is French cuisine. You may interpret the distinction in your own mind, but I think there is a subcategory that the French potager holds as all its own in the concept of kitchen...
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Starter Vegetable Garden...

A different design- A small vegetable patch is one of the first gardens I made when I was a twenty-something. I hadn’t really gardened on my own, but I knew what a delicious treat a fresh homegrown...
Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, general gardening, landscaping

Your Garden Connection and Viewsheds...

In a very real way your garden is the connection between you and your surroundings. That has a number of different perspectives, including the house and the greater surroundings, the plantings and the house,...
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The Xeriscape Solution...

What is a xeriscape? Xeriscaping is the art of taking plants that need little water and using them in your landscape. That is the best worded definition I have found. The dictionary says, “environmental...
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Three Garden Questions...

Many know of the garden author Christopher Lloyd and his famous ‘Great Dixter‘. Christopher Lloyd passed on from this earthly garden in 2006, but his achievement in creating one of the great...
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Steps To Making An Herb Garden...

An herb garden is one of the easiest to begin. Herbs grow quickly and often need little care. After awhile they may become a bit ungainly in habit, then it will be time to clip and divide, but that might be...
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Rose Romance and Clematis Tales...

Peanut Butter and Jelly, Romeo and Juliet, Pen and Paper, some things just belong together. That is how you might think of rose bushes and clematis vines. Both are gorgeous in flower, and impart a romantic...
Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, blue flowers, perennials, plant profiles

Blue Flax, Linum narbonense...

Linum narbonense Blue Flax is a piece of summer sky fallen into the garden, shimmering blue flowers reflecting clear unclouded heavens. Opening during the sunny days and dropping its petals by afternoon,...
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