Best Garden » greens http://www.best-garden.net Gardening Ideas, Garden Design, Gardening Tips & Advice Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using Color in the Garden http://www.best-garden.net/using-color-in-the-garden/ http://www.best-garden.net/using-color-in-the-garden/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:51:19 +0000 admin http://www.best-garden.net/?p=55 As harmony is to a tune, so colour is to a garden: it gives a more precise feeling and mood to the under¬lying design. Colour alone cannot make a garden, but it can enrich the design and highlight different parts of the scheme at different times. It can attract atten¬tion by means of bright Read more...

]]> As harmony is to a tune, so colour is to a garden: it gives a more precise feeling and mood to the under¬lying design. Colour alone cannot make a garden, but it can enrich the design and highlight different parts of the scheme at different times. It can attract atten¬tion by means of bright Read more...

]]> http://www.best-garden.net/using-color-in-the-garden/feed/ 1 How to Build an All-Green Garden http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-an-all-green-garden/ http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-an-all-green-garden/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:36:06 +0000 admin http://www.best-garden.net/?p=39 From time to time most gardeners long for an all-green garden. It is a longing for clarity and simplicity, for a rest from the business of gardening. The in¬spiration may be found in a formal garden: picture a white-painted weatherboard house with a long veran¬dah overlooking still trees and Read more...

]]> From time to time most gardeners long for an all-green garden. It is a longing for clarity and simplicity, for a rest from the business of gardening. The in¬spiration may be found in a formal garden: picture a white-painted weatherboard house with a long veran¬dah overlooking still trees and Read more...

]]> http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-an-all-green-garden/feed/ 0 How to Build a Victorian Gardens http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-a-victorian-gardens/ http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-a-victorian-gardens/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:33:49 +0000 admin http://www.best-garden.net/?p=37 The interiors of Victorian houses were known for their fussiness and crowding detail; so it was with the gardens of the high Victorian period. Labour was cheap and numerous gardeners could be employed, removing worries about whether a garden style might be labour intensive or not. The period was Read more...

]]> The interiors of Victorian houses were known for their fussiness and crowding detail; so it was with the gardens of the high Victorian period. Labour was cheap and numerous gardeners could be employed, removing worries about whether a garden style might be labour intensive or not. The period was Read more...

]]> http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-a-victorian-gardens/feed/ 1 How to Deal with Climate and Microclimate in your Garden http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-deal-with-climate-and-microclimate-in-your-garden/ http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-deal-with-climate-and-microclimate-in-your-garden/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:39:49 +0000 admin http://www.best-garden.net/?p=41 Geographical location
Climate is all-important because it dictates the kinds of plants you can grow and exerts an immense in¬fluence on design. If you have moved to a new area it is easy to discover average temperatures and rainfall, but you must always allow for extremes.

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Climate is all-important because it dictates the kinds of plants you can grow and exerts an immense in¬fluence on design. If you have moved to a new area it is easy to discover average temperatures and rainfall, but you must always allow for extremes.

Regional Read more...

]]> http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-deal-with-climate-and-microclimate-in-your-garden/feed/ 0 How to Build a Single-Color Garden http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-a-single-color-garden/ http://www.best-garden.net/how-to-build-a-single-color-garden/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:31:12 +0000 admin http://www.best-garden.net/?p=33 These have become popular in recent years in the wake of such famous examples as the white garden at Sissinghurst. They represent an extremely disci¬plined form of gardening in that the gardener has to work with a very limited palette. This can have its advantages: the emphasis is thrown back on Read more...

]]> These have become popular in recent years in the wake of such famous examples as the white garden at Sissinghurst. They represent an extremely disci¬plined form of gardening in that the gardener has to work with a very limited palette. This can have its advantages: the emphasis is thrown back on Read more...

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