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Creating a Beautiful Landscape

Ideas and inspiration, tips and opinions, guidance on style for your home landscape. I believe that most people with a little education n design concepts and exposure to great landscapes can create their own plans.

23.01.13 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Making Your First Garden Plan

Landscape Design Know-How

 I’ve been holed up at home because I don’t like to go out in the cold when I don’t have to, and I made my first infographic. One of the benefits of spending a little time on Twitter was the link to this site where I could try out a program that promises a good…

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02.10.12 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Underestimated Flowering Shrubs

Landscape Design Know-How + October

Witch Hazel ushers in Spring On the whole, deciduous, flowering shrubs get short shrift in modern gardens. We know about lilacs and weigelas, perhaps, but are often discouraged from planting them given “lack of seasonal interest” as the rationalization for such advice. It is true that some of them shine only when in bloom. Flowering…

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08.03.12 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Thoughts on a Garden Voice

Landscape Design Know-How + The Garden Effect : Soul

“The chief vice of gardens is to be merely pretty.” -Fletcher Steel I came across that quote when reading grounded design, the blog of a landscape architect, on “Why We Plant“…and it got me thinking. It is an idea that can be extended to many an artistic endeavor. I think that people who are in…

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01.06.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Spring Pinks 2011

Landscape Design Know-How + May

There are so many shades of pink in the spring, they stand out against all the intense green and are luminously in harmony with the heavenly blue skies. This year the blooms were a bit late and held tight buds for longer than usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2011 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An…

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08.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Odd Thing Or Two About This Late Winter Time of Year

February + Landscape Design Know-How

Pink, Red, or Fuchsia? Most gardeners have gotten a catalog or two, or three…or more! Garden catalogs have their own language and after awhile one understands the lingo, but at first it can seem almost misleading. I wrote a page about deciphering catalogs a number of years ago. Garden catalog advice. Essentially the two major…

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03.09.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Landscape Design Know-How + the REAL world

Rainer’s Photo of native biomass example I recently wrote a profile on English ivy, and it is with interest that I read this passionate gardener/landscaper’s post calling us to throw off the yoke of the groundcover and take on a style of native gardening. I empathize, and am almost persuaded. But there are a few…

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05.06.09 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

A White Garden or Moon Garden

Garden design ideas + Landscape Design Know-How

25.02.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Home And Garden …coming right up!

2009 + General gardening + Landscape Design Know-How

The thrilling expectancy of Spring is in the air and what better way to feed the anticipation than to visit the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show which opens this Saturday, February 28th? I am so excited to go this year. You have time to hop on over to a Home Depot store and get…

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13.11.08 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

A Common Point of View

Garden photos + Garden Quotations + Landscape Design Know-How

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the…

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14.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Photos

Garden photos + Garden Roses + June + Landscape Design Know-How

Here are some pictures from the garden lately. A clematis which is supposed to be on a lattice, but I didn’t get to painting it yet… it clambers among the mugho pine. Dortmund rose is finally settling in and blooms with deep cherry single flowers. Peony, Dames Rocket, and Hansa rose blooming together in neglected…

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