Ilona's Garden-DIY Home Landscaping - Part 2

“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...

The Blue Garden...

While color-themed gardens intrigue in the planning stages, they can be a bit difficult to pull off. One drawback is the self-limiting nature of it… there are so many plants that attract our attention...

Frugal Gardening...

As I write this it is late October, and one of the best times to find garden bargains if you hurry out to your local nursery or order from your favorite online catalog. If you don’t mind less than...

Stretch The Bloom Season...

Do you love daffodils? Tulips? All the flowers of spring? Or chrysanthemums? Daylilies? Which of these flowers makes your heart beat a little faster just looking at them? You can stretch the bloom season...

Trees of My Landscape -and other tre...

Trees are an incredibly important part of a landscape in the part of the world where I live- as they are in so many. They are one of the first things I notice when traveling to a new region. “What...

Why A Gardener Loves Slavery To A Ga...

Is there such a thing as maintenance free gardening? No. Is there such a thing as easy gardening? No. Is gardening hard physical labor? Sure is…. so why do it? Why expend all that effort? Because...

5 Choices for Living Christmas Trees...

Many of my specimen evergreen trees started out as our living trees for Christmas celebrations. It is a bit of work, you can’t keep them indoors very long, but instead of throwing away a tree, you...

The Prairie Garden...

Few of us will ever see a true prairie like the pioneers of old had seen, but we still have the plants, and many of those are ideal for the challenging conditions of drought. Prairies are rare now, but...

Garden: Fail...

Sometimes you can learn from garden failures, and since I have had a lot of experience with that… you can probably learn a lot from me! Sure, everyone wants to see the successes and vicariously ride...

Autumn Clematis...

One of my favorite vines for sheer abundance of frothy bloom. When it is in full bloom starting at the end of August, the entire yard is filled with a clean soapy scent. Abuzz with little bees and adorned...

My Favorite Tulip Varieties...

First of all, I love tulips, and one of my sayings is that they are “the lipstick of the garden”. Tulips just brighten up the visage of the spring garden in a way that no other of the plants...

Flowering Cabbage & Kale...

Time to think of the autumn phase of the garden already. When we picture autumn we picture the trees ablaze with color here in the Midwest, and in the Northeast of the USA, but there are other players...

Ten Top Perennial Choices...

If I was reduced to ten plants around which to plan the gardening season, which would I choose? This post is based on the one I wrote for my blog, but I think I would stand by the thoughts written in 2004.This...

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