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27.08.18 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

3 Tips For Landscaping Successfully With Ornamental Trees

Landscape Design Know-How + Landscape Trees

What are Ornamental Trees? These trees are usually small with special features like interesting bark, showy flowers, or eye-catching foliage. An ornamental also has a pleasing shape and fits easily into modern yards. This may seem like a tall order of outstanding characteristics, but the “ornamental” part of the description means that the trees are selected…

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03.07.18 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

All Season Garden Color with Bold Foliage Effects, Masterful Contrasts

Garden design ideas + Landscape Design Know-How

Be Bold with Color Foliage color is a fine way to introduce variation in all seasons; so consider the addition of variegated foliage, purple tinted leaves, golden and some of the other types of leaf or needle color. Flowers, combined for bold contrasts or subtle harmonies, are the glory of three of our four seasons….

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06.02.17 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

More for me than you, Garden Planning

General gardening + Landscape Design Know-How + weeding

I haven’t surfed garden blogs in forever, it seems. But today was different and I garnered some great ideas that I hope to put to work for me this year. We’ll see. It all depends on both how diligent I am and how much traveling I need to do. (Since I am the sole gardener,…

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02.02.17 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

What Makes a Low Maintenance Garden?

Featured + Landscape Design Know-How

It is increasingly the Holy Grail of garden designs: making a landscape low maintenance. For many reasons, reducing the work load of our outdoor spaces has become a priority. We are busy with many activities We are aging Viewing flowers rather than weeding flowerbeds is preferable That is not the definitive list, by any means,…

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19.08.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

How To Plant Dutch Bulbs For Fabulous Spring Flowers

bulbs + Landscape Design Know-How

Start Spring With A Big Pop of Color Apeldoorn Tulips | Though the usual sequence is to plant the bulbs in the fall for bloom in the spring, some growers cheat the system by chilling those sold for spring bloom. This is necessary for Southern gardens which don’t get the required cold temperatures. Presented here…

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07.07.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Furniture Brightens Up Outdoor Living

backyard + Garden design ideas + summer

Garden furniture I wouldn’t be without What Can’t You Live Without? Favorite Garden Accessories Garden Benches Chairs Firepits and Fire Bowls Playhouses Bird Baths, Feeders, Houses Swings and swingsets Picnic tables and Patio sets Fountain Hot tub Patio seating and lounge chairs Grill or outdoor kitchen Is The Ticket Too Big? On “big ticket” items…

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06.07.16 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape

Frugal Tips + Garden design ideas

What if you could see which shrubs and trees grow well in your landscape? Or learn of plants mature sizes without waiting for years? An Arboretum can show and tell.  What Is An Arboretum? An Arboretum is a place where trees are grown, but not only trees. Many are places to find shrubs, perennials, and…

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13.06.16 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Cottage Garden Revival

Garden design ideas

Cottage Garden Revival Cottage gardens as we know them today are a direct product of late Edwardian writers, although the style itself is much older. Old Fashioned In The Nineteenth Century During the time of Queen Victoria there was an explosion of exotic plants introduced into English gardens. The Victorians, being addicted to collecting and…

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29.05.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Low, Low Maintenance Spring Bulb Garden, Nothing Easier

bulbs + Landscape Design Know-How

Americans, especially Generation X, don’t want to be bothered with lots of gardening chores. Why would flowering bulbs appeal to people who want an easy, low maintenance garden? Find out. Your Home’s Style And Type of Garden Brightened With Bulbs Whether your home is formal or informal, there are plant pictures made with flower bulbs…

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16.05.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Fire Pit Conversations

backyard + Garden design ideas + My Place

How to bond as a family? Try some conversation starters around an open fire.

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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