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Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, welcome

Welcome

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 Welcome to Ilona's GardenI thought that there might be other gardeners out there that would like the...

Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, containers

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 extremely important part of container gardening. Use a good potting soil, water often. Choose plant companions...

Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, garden design, veggies

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 gardens. Just as we have come to appreciate the special inflection of the Cottage garden in feeling and style, the French...

Posted by the gardener in Featured Articles, easy garden lessons, veggies

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 tomato was… I had enjoyed them from my mother’s garden. And my mother’s vegetable gardens never changed very much from what is essentially an easy starter vegetable garden. So this little guide...

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, and the garden with “borrowed views”, or viewsheds. Some of us are blessed with dramatic natural viewsheds, whether of mountain or ocean, or forest. Some have viewsheds including churches, or other...