A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words...
and landscape gardeners appreciate those that present easy-to-do ideas and realistic inspiration. This lens highlights the good, the bad, and yes even the ugly of built landscapes! Check back often because categories and commentary change weekly.
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Hint#1 - Check out the view from inside the house looking out into the garden. The curtains might not be as white and billowy as these, but you'll end up landscaping for yourself rather than the neighborhood.
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Low-maintenance Garden Design Landscapes
These links are to some of my articles that describe my thoughts as I've worked on designs as well as some of the plants specified in the designs.
- Memorial and Meditation Garden Landscapes: Walkway and Patio Edge Designs with Modern Low-maintenance Plants
- Modern low-maintenance plants surrounding walkway and patio edges in memorial and meditation garden designs convey intimacy. Choosing suitable garden plants is crucial.
- Low-Maintenance Plants for DIY Landscape Gardens: Bordering Walks and Patios in Memorial and Meditation Garden Designs
- Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.
Low-maintenance Garden Landscape Design
Memorial Garden in Southwest VA Before Planting
A church model that memorializes early 19th century church founders as the focal point of this landscape garden. The plant hardiness zone 7 garden is set facing south set back from a drive.
Suite101Landscaping Photos
Easy Access Via New Image Tool
Landscape gardeners searching for landscaping pictures will appreciate the new Image Tool at Landscaping at Suite101. Now there are multiple 10 x 110 pixel thumbnails photos after each of my articles. Select a photo, click on the blue underlined description (really a link), and watch the selected photo expand to approximately 800 x 600 pixels on a new page.Accessing - clicking - on one descrption opens the photo in a new separate window with my caption, credit, and link back to my original article. This initial access also allows use of the easiest aspect of this new image tool.
In the new window, all images associated with the particular article show as a sequence of thumbnail photos in the righthand corner. Clicking on any of these thumbnails brings up its enlarged captioned photo.
Remember:
1 - Click on a photo's description link on the article page to access an enlarged version of the photo on a new page.
2 - Click on any thumbnail photo in the righthand corner of the new page to access an enlarged version of the thumbnail.
I am thrilled with this new easy access image tool. I hope it makes your pursuit of landscaping photos showing specific landscaping ideas easier.
Let me know how you like it.
Design Aspects of Some Favorite Gardens
Traditions and Styles of Landscape Design with Photographs
A Suite101.com reader recently wrote an e-mail asking about the third part in my series of Traditions and Styles of Landscape Design. "Has it come out yet?" he asked.
Here is the article quote he sent in the e-mail:
The first series of gardens, presented here, create a virtual field trip that mostly illustrates the garden design concepts of formal gardens written about in . The second series, which will be posted soon, contains examples of informal gardens, while the third series will contain those with which I am particularly fascinated, and return to time and again. Happy Traveling!
I am happy to say that I did write about the second series of gardens of Tradition and Styles of Landscape Design. This series presented an historical and virtual field trip of examples of informal landscape gardening. Both of these series that appeared in 2002 were a synopsis of western garden styles from antiquity to modern times with emphasis on the formal versus informal design concepts.
Now I am happy to report that recently I've written several articles about design aspects of my favorite gardens. Here is a list of the most recent articles about my favorite gardens:
Here is the article quote he sent in the e-mail:
The first series of gardens, presented here, create a virtual field trip that mostly illustrates the garden design concepts of formal gardens written about in . The second series, which will be posted soon, contains examples of informal gardens, while the third series will contain those with which I am particularly fascinated, and return to time and again. Happy Traveling!
I am happy to say that I did write about the second series of gardens of Tradition and Styles of Landscape Design. This series presented an historical and virtual field trip of examples of informal landscape gardening. Both of these series that appeared in 2002 were a synopsis of western garden styles from antiquity to modern times with emphasis on the formal versus informal design concepts.
Now I am happy to report that recently I've written several articles about design aspects of my favorite gardens. Here is a list of the most recent articles about my favorite gardens:
- Chateau Country Landscapes
- Landscape gardeners can find examples of significant European and American landscape styles without traveling to Europe. The Brandywine Valley (PA and DE) beckons to those interested in garden history. Visit the four Du Pont country estates and gardens of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill
- Urban Garden Retreats and Small Shade Gardens in Boston MA. Beacon Hill (Boston, MA) residents fashion hidden backyard gardens. Garden retreats come into being from small pieces of degraded urban soil and shaded settings.
- Beacon Hill Public Gardens
- Residents of Beacon Hill's North Slope (Boston, MA) and civic and government groups work to transform derelict spaces and passageways into neighborhood garden spaces.
- Walking Tours of Beacon Hill
- Beacon Hill of Boston MA is a Community of 19th Century Allure in a 21st Century World. Visitors can grasp the distinct quality of the Beacon Hill area during walking tours. Stable populations, historic architecture and urban horticulture add up to a community.
- Historic Gardens and Landscapes
- New England - Survey of Selected 17th-18th Century Garden Landscapes. Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. This is a survey of selected 17th to18th century landscape styles.
- Historic Landscapes and Gardens
- New England - Survey of Selected 19th Century Gardens. Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. This is a survey of selected 19th century landscape styles.
- Historic Landscapes
- New England - Survey of Selected 20th Century Gardens. Twentieth century New England garden landscapes show diversity that demonstrates society's expanding financial and social bases. Four such historic designs are described here.
My articles from Suite101
Landscaping, Travel and Food
These are mostly landscaping articles. However, once in a while, I write an article on an aspect of travel or food for Suite101 about which I feel great enthusiasm.
And there are, of course, great photos to illustrate all of these articles. The food and travel articles are usually linked, in some way, to landscaping and gardens.
Enjoy!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byFormal vs Informal Front Yards
Nothing says "WELCOME" ...
like an uncluttered entrance with an inviting clearly marked door. A formal front yard and entrance has traditional, symmetrical balance. Shapes and patterns are balanced for lawn, paving and shrubbery.An informal front yard is natural and asymmetrical. The asymmetry can consist of a series of strong bold curves or a series of definite patterns, lines and forms that contrast with each other.
Lawns
A canvas against which...
the landscape is planned and planted. Recent Articles about Landscape Photographs
- Garden Design and Structure: A Photographic Encyclopedia by Derek Fell
- A review of "An Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden" by Derek Fell, over 800 photographs of landscape elements from A to W.
- Landscaping Photographs Online: Internet sites that offer landscape pictures vary significantly.
- Many internet sites offer garden landscape photographs for inspiration and design ideas. Here is a selection of them reviewed on cost, user-friendliness and practicality.
- Residential Landscaping Pictures: Make use of landscape design and landscape idea photos.
- Landscape photos may be worth a thousand words. They can inspire illusions of mood and atmosphere, or adaptable design ideas. Photos may make good landscape design tools.
- International Garden Photographs:Away.com: Photo Galleries of Worldwide Landscape Gardens
- Away.com offers an archive of travel photographs that includes galleries devoted to international garden landscapes.
- Landscape Design, Tips and Terms: Derek Fell's Book An Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure
- The core of Derek Fell's book "Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure" is an information bank of garden landscape photos, but the introduction is its foundation.
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