Garden Landscape Designs for the Creative Gardener

Its cold, its winter, and to Gardeners everywhere, its time to lie back and see in their minds eye all the beautiful Garden Landscape Designs they will achieve in their front and back yards in a few short months when spring turns up. To those with a serious case of the green thumb, every act of mucking about in the Garden, digging, clearing up weeds, and lovingly nurturing their seedlings is about the greatest way to spend a warm afternoon. To these people, winter cant end soon enough. Some of the best Garden Landscape Designs can be the simple ones - the ones that draw on the beauty of nature over the man-made.
Even if nature at its simplest can often be the most beautiful, Gardeners often draw inspiration from an elaborate creation such as is a topiary. The thing about a recognizable animal or other shape that you train an evergreen plant into is that it brings a good deal of interest to everything else in a Garden - and it brings sophistication. A patio completely covered in flowers can be such an inspiration. All you need is a simple stone patio built of intersecting titles. Lay the tiles with a couple of inches between them, and plant little flowering herbs, and pink and violet flowers in the spaces in between. Not only will it help you make the most of the space you have, the effect will be priceless.

Most Garden Landscape Designs dont make enough use of chamomile in their plans. Making an entire lawn path out of chamomile can be especially beautiful. The scent they bring to the atmosphere of your Garden when you walk over these plants can be deeply satisfying. Of course, in areas that will not support chamomile, you could use thyme of one of many different available varieties. Pink is such a fashionable color for a Garden. Many Gardeners try their hand at Garden Landscape Designs using pink flowers to border everything they can find. To make your pink theme work, youd be best off grouping off areas dedicated to different shades of the color. Adding a little definition with green plants in places too can pronounce the beauty in the color of the flowers.

The best Garden Landscape Designs work on the theme of a particular variety of plant. Most Gardeners find that there is a particular species of plant that inspires them to work on an ambitious project to collect every variety that they can get their hands on. Theyre willing to give up a good portion of their space to dedicate to the beauty of this one plant. Of all the Garden Landscape Designs there may be, ones like these may be the most inspired.

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Hot or Not Hits the Road

This Friday December 2, I will be speaking at the fourth annual "Turning a New Leaf Conference" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  My talk is entitled "Hot or Not: How Making Sustainable Landscapes Fashionable will Revolutionize the Movement."  The talk was inspired by my original post found here.

Here is the abstract:

The sustainable landscape movement has advanced significantly over the last decade, gaining in acceptance among homeowners and designers. But many remain skeptical of sustainable practices, and there is even evidence of a backlash against using native plants. Has the push to make landscapes more sustainable hit a rut? Is the message being drowned out? How do we reach a broader audience?

The single best way to expand the appeal of sustainable landscapes is to make them fashionable. Until sustainable landscapes are shown to be beautiful, they will never be fully embraced by the American public. This talk will explore how to create a new aesthetic for sustainable landscapes that will make them more desirable. We will examine model projects that are not only ecologically productive, but strikingly original, cutting-edge designs. We will look at how the European garden scene has blended sustainability with an artistic ethos. Most importantly, we will examine strategies that CCLC members can use to create more beautiful, original, and ecologically-rich landscapes.

Theres still time to register.  For more on the conference, including other fascinating speakers and discussions, please visit the sites homepage: http://www.chesapeakelandscape.org/2011leaf.htm

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A Guide to Northeastern Gardening 100th Post And Three Year Anniversary The Journey

~Guide To Northeastern Gardening 100th Post~
 

  Welcome to A Guide to Northeastern Gardenings 100th post!  Well it certainly has been a  journey.  When I first started blogging exactly three years ago today I never knew how long I would be pursuing it and couldnt even imagine reaching a 100th post.    Garden blogging has become an important part of who I am...sort of a life diary.  I get to share my experiences with other gardeners who share the same passion so I thank you all for visiting, commenting and sharing your knowledge, experiences and passion of gardening with me.

I have had a passion for gardening ever since I was at the age of five when I planted marigolds in pretty planters along the back of the old brick fireplace and gathered daisies for my mom...her favorite flower.  I still reside today in the home I grew up in on the south shore of Long Island with my husband and plan to never leave.  The property has evolved over the years into our own little sanctuary and hopefully we will be able to age gracefully there.   

~Through the Years 1995 to Present~

 So where does the blogging come in?  We decided to do something with our barren property in 1996 and put in an in ground pool.  At the time I was just starting a landscape design business and with the pool project everything just started falling into place.  I knew this was meant to be.   As the years have passed I have added and added gardens everywhere on the property and of course...it is never finished because a garden constantly changes and well...isnt that half the joy of it?  Its funny how life works. One thing led to another and after having a conversation about the infamous blogging movie Julie and Julia I decided to pursue the world of blogging and started up A Guide to Northeastern Gardening.  

Now writing for three years I strive to make my posts informative and interesting.  I enjoy visiting other gardening blogs and leaving a comment or little note so the owner knows Ive been there.  I just wish there was more time in a day so that I could visit everyone!  I am working on the photography end of things which has become a second passion that came out of this blog.  I am looking forward to where this blogging journey will continue to take me.  I thank each and every one of you for making this such a pleasurable experience and appreciate your dropping by once in a while and taking the time to leave a comment which I so enjoy reading.

So there you have it, three years and 100 posts. Thanks for helping me celebrate and the best to all of you.

As Always...Happy Gardening!

Author: Lee@A Guide to Northeastern Gardening, Copyright 2013. All rights reserved

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