Ilona's Garden-DIY Home Landscaping

“Create A Garden: Make your home garden more than a dream”

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. Since the 1970’s I have been interested in creating a home landscape and all things pertaining to this wonderful...

Sedum Spectabile Variegatum

An asset to any garden. This variegated sedum has long been one of my favorites. It began as a “passalong” plant from a friend, and as the years went by its fine qualities slowly revealed themselves. For those qualities it gained a place among my favorites- combining good looks...

Flora and Fauna: Hummingbirds...

Animated Jewels of the Garden The tiny hummingbird captures our hearts with a fascination few other birds inspire. And since I have my own little anecdote to share,they rate an entire page to themselves;...

Encouraging the Honeybees: Making a ...

The honeybee populations of the USA have been drastically diminishing [Learn about Colony Collapse Disorder], and though no one knows exactly why, one factor is less foraging. We gardeners can do something...

Ten Best Articles on Starting From S...

Expert advice offered on all aspects of starting seeds for your garden is available for free. I gathered what I consider some of the best and most thorough information pages. Many of the PDF files are...

Winter Outlines Garden Bones...

Winter is a stark time for most of us in a temperate climate. Doubly so when a fresh snowfall creates lines and shapes, filled in with snowy white. We then see our garden in silhouette, and all its features...

Chives, Onion’s Little Brother...

Chives are part of the culinary herb garden, but can be tucked in anywhere – pots, edges, odd corners of a flower bed. They are easy to grow and easy to harvest, as well as being pretty and polite....

Ten Winter Features...

Everyone has their opinion of what makes something a joy to the eye. In winter everything is finely edited by our cold weather and killing frosts, but that only means we have a showcase for some plants...

Growing vegetables: cultivation...

Gardening is half science and half art. There is a huge knowledge base for growing plants well, especially food plants, but thankfully the knack can be developed with not too much trouble because plants...

Contorted Hazel...

Preeminent for winter interest, the Contorted Hazel, Contorted Filbert, or ‘Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick’ all add up to the same beautifully twisted, gnarled branches standing out in...

Five Point Plan At Your New Place...

a plan can guide you to success If you have a new home, or the home is new to you, you probably want to keep up or improve the appearances of the place. I’ve talked with lots of people from my hair...

The White Garden...

Making an all white garden used to be quite a popular undertaking. Although the idea probably started, in modern gardening times anyway, with Gertrude Jekyll in her book, Colour Schemes for the Flower...

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