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English Countryside Garden Design With Classic Black Barns

When the owner of this placed moved to Ulting Wick with her family almost 20 years ago, she found an old farmyard full of rusting machinery as well as a handful of glorious black barns. Black barns are a common feature dotting the eastern edges of the rural English landscape from Norfolk to Sussex, and...

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8 Cool DIY Pergolas For Your Garden And Backyard

Pergolas are popular for any kind of outdoor spaces because they perfectly defend from sun (or rain?) and make up a wonderful space for having a meal and chatting. Today I’d like to share some cool DIY pergola plans for those who are ready to spend some time building your own pergola. What’s good about...

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Vegetable And Fruit Garden Transformed After 50 Years Wild

This garden was restored and completely transformed after 50 year of being wild. Though the plot had not been touched in 50 years, it did have a walled garden area, a barn, some self-seeded fruit and nut trees, as well as a few elderberry bushes. There wasn’t a single flower, but huge piles of rubble...

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Garden Design With Bursts Of Color In The Mountains

Garden designer Julie Moir Messervy has created her own terraced garden in southern Vermont. Against the velvety verdant backdrops of the Green Mountain State, her garden has outdoor living spaces, ponds, and garden beds where wildflowers and perennials create a kaleidoscope of color year after year. The garden is a series of terraced spaces, including...

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Small London Tropical Oasis With Layered Decor

This small garden is a beautiful oasis in the center of the city. This is a tropical green paradise, and hydrangeas, dahlias, and daisies add color to the rainforest medley of greens—for a brief moment. Layering the spaces in the garden make it seem bigger than it really is. Black fences are extremely trendy now,...

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5 Essential Design Tips For A Modern Garden

What is it that makes a great modern, contemporary garden? How can it be achieved and what rules should they follow? Hard landscaping. There are waterfeatures, stones, raised beds and built-in planters that are physically constructed into the garden with rendered walls and wooden bench inserts. Low maintenance. Self-irrigation methods are implied. Self-watering planters and...

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How To Create And Plant A Rooftop Garden

If you’re considering a rooftop garden, there are a couple of directions you could go in. Fully planted green roofs, where the roof is covered with soil and the plants are in the ground, make great environmental sense, but they are too difficult for homeowners to undertake on their own. The easiest and most personal...

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Cool Garden Makeover For A Ranch-Style House

This garden around a ranch-style house t was mostly concrete, located on a steep, sloping, narrow lot. It was completely changed by the owners; first, they mapped out pathways and flow with emphasis on focal points seen from the house and other viewpoints on the property. They used a simple palette of materials, including basalt...

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How To Make A Small Veggie Garden

You don’t need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You don’t really even need a garden. Plant breeders know that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small space, so they’ve been developing more varieties that can grow in a small foot print or even live in containers all...

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DIY Hanging Indoor Garden For The Winter

For many of us now it’s time for indoor gardening, so let’s make an indoor garden to keep enjoying your favorite pastime! You’ll need 1″x6″ piece of pine cut to your desired length, 4″ hole saw, wood stain in and a finish of your choice, a hand sander with 100-grit sandpaper and one piece of...

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