Foliage garden

Discover the secrets of creating stunning color in your landscape. Learn how to use the color wheel to achieve perfect textural contrast.

The post features two great shade gardens with big one thing in common and that is a wonderful use of plant materials. One of the biggest transformations that…

Discover the top 11 trees that don’t lose leaves, perfect for adding year-round privacy to your garden! These evergreen beauties provide lush foliage and dense coverage, ensuring your outdoor space remains secluded and green in every season. Explore options from elegant hollies to majestic pines, each offering unique benefits for creating a natural, living privacy screen. Transform your yard into a tranquil haven with these resilient, low-maintenance trees that keep their leaves all year…

If you have a small yard and need some privacy, then here are 18 great trees that will be great for privacy. These trees have dense foliage, many are evergreen and fast growing. They can fit a compact space. Come take a look at our list of best trees to get privacy for a small outdoor space. #artsyprettyplants #backyardideas #diylandscaping #yardideas #outdoordecor #curbappeal

Early spring is the season of hope: for the most beautiful garden ever. And you can have that. You also can lay the most charming front path in the history

In my last post, we finished off at the entrance to the one sunny pocket in the backyard garden. Let's head under the arbor and look around. Before we move away to explore the rest of the garden, I wanted to show you this pretty, little Japanese birdbath. I also want to point out the interesting way the gardener has managed to combine rock of different scales both in this bright, sunny corner and in other areas of the garden. On the left, she has created a dry stream bed using river rock…

1. Hosta 'August Moon' 2. 'Hosta 'Pizzazz' 3. Hosta 'Halcon' 4. Birtchwood Parky's Gold 5. Sweet Woodruff Knowing what plants to use in your shade garden is a first step, but incorporating them into a planting scheme can be intimidating. What goes where and how should the whole thing look when you're done? To help out, I have gathered some shade planting schemes together in one post. Each example is numbered and one or two plants have been highlighted with further information. There are even…

Every garden needs some big-ass leaves. Who couldn't use a little big-leaf eye candy to kick off the short work week? Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant' is

fifthseasonlandscapes In this Willoughby garden we have used Ligularia reniformis combined with Plectranthus and dichondra repens to provide... more