Design
Garden Design in Warwickshire, UK
Consultations for advice and inspiration
Tailor-made design for every individual Innovative planting ideas from concept to completion
Specification of works, recommended landscapers and project management
Whispering Cane Institues
I am a Professional Landscape Designer, writer, lecturer, artist, and
teacher. I design residential, industrial, and commercial landscapes;
using both curvilinear and geometric themes. Adapting to the needs of
the client and the site. The Whispering Crane Institute also provides
seminars and workshops for those in the "Green Industry"
GardenersInfoPoint.com
you will find a great amount of information on topics like garden
design, gardening tools, garden styles, tips, projects, starting
with your first master plan for your garden and many many other
subjects.
House Plans & Garage Plans - Designconnection.com has over 2500 house plans and over 430 garage plans to choose from!
Landscape Design From About.com
A resource for landscape design tips and yard maintenance. Focus on
making landscape design comprehensible, inexpensive, easier and fun for
the do-it-yourselfer.
Landscaping designs,
kitchen designs: this web site is ideal for people who are designing,
remodelling, renovating, or redecorating any part of their home or
garden, are surrounded by choice and need some sound advice.
NELDHA For those of us who garden in New England,
MyLandscapes Landscape & garden design in London: contemporary solutions for your outdoor space.
Garden Plans by My Shade Garden
http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/
This extensive site on landscape plants presents information on 800
mostly woody landscape plants, listed by pages of genera (that are a
bit overly long), which are cross-listed by common name. Each plant has
a series of high quality images on plant habit, leaves, flowers and
frequently fruit, seeds and stem features. There is also an "info" link
containing
Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project
The Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project is part of the National Park
Service Volunteers-in-the-Parks Program. This is the collection of
Donald Davidson, who traveled through the parks in 1999 through 2002
painting on location
http://www.reelmowerguide.com/ A complete guide to using a manual reel mower.
Do-it-yourself Landscape design How-to guides, ideas, tutorials, tips, and resources on the many aspects of landscape design.
Sans Souci Gardens In Austin, Tx
Sheffield School of Interior Design Free monthly interior design tips from one of the world's largest interior design schools.
Garden Designer
Quite a large site with lots of info for the begining garden designer
LetsDigIt.com, a new
gardening website. LetsDigIt.com moves through the process
of design and construction of one particular garden, transforming it
into a tranquil paradise, which will hopefully inspire and capture your
imagination, perhaps helping you to transform your own garden in some
way.
Care of Cut
Flowers Flowers are living things and continue their
development after harvesting. With a little bit of care, you can
enjoy your flowers for a long time. Some basic tips will help you
extend their live and beauty considerably:
Handling
Cut Flowers A fresh flower is still a living specimen even
though it has been cut from the plant. Its maximum potential vase
life, is short. There are many impinging forces that can interact to
reduce fresh-flower vase life.
From NC
State University A&T State Cooperative Extension index on
Landscaping many are in PDF format, includes bed preparation,
fertilization, selection, installation, weed control and more.
Basic
Principles of Landscape Design
EPA Green
Landscaping with Native Plants Landscaping with native
wildflowers and grasses improves the environment. Natural landscaping
brings a taste of wilderness to urban, suburban, and corporate
settings by attracting a variety of birds, butterflies and other
animals.
Gardentree Articles, before & after Photos, getting started on designing, a library and more
Oxford College of Garden Design Offering courses to budding amateurs and prospective professionals, the OCGD is
one of the top contemporary garden design colleges.
From the Garden with P.
Allen Smith Television host & professional garden
designer provides tips from his daily gardening reports that are
practical and useful guides to better gardening.
Landscape
Architecture Virtual Library A very thorough and wide-ranging
resource of links to garden and landscape oriented businesses,
publications, colleges, software, events, and information.
ASLA - LandNet
The American Society of Landscape Architects LandNet homepage
is mostly a professionals-oriented page.
Association Of Professional Landscape Designers
Planning
the Home Landscape A very good article by Extension Landscape
horticulturist Willam C. Welch.
Design Principles in Garden-Making Since
the space that the garden occupies is three-dimensional, the starting
point of design is to get inside that space and create it from within.
Imagine being inside a piece of sculpture. The developing space needs
to evolve to accommodate the use, comfort and pleasure of its creator.
The design elements are then employed to determine the way space will
be perceived. All artists- photographers, painters, weavers,
sculptorsÖand yes, garden-makersÖuse these same principles to
create something magical.
Lawn
& Garden: Landscape Plan Landscaping is a lot of work and
can cost a lot of money. For these reasons, most do-it-yourselfers go
with a 3 to 5 year landscape plan. That way the work and cost can be
spread out over a few years. A good plan is essential in landscaping.
Without it, you'll end up wasting a lot of time and money.
Dig Magazine has a collection of articles of Garden Design.