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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.

05.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry: Short-lived Shrub

Landscape Design Know-How

I was warned. When in the midst of life (my late twenties, early thirties) and in full thrall of new garden planting, I had read that purple sand cherries were short lived shrubs. I planted a beautiful purple leaved sand cherry, anyway. For years it grew and flourished. I even planned a color scheme around…

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26.04.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Spring Blooming

Garden Stories and Memories + Landscape Design Know-How

So much is blooming it is hard to keep up making notes on it all. The cherry trees, pear, and peach are all in bloom-probably the apples, too, but I didn’t walk out that far to check. The crabapples are breaking into bud, the ‘Snowdrift’ variety has been blooming for most of this week already….

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09.07.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

July ’07 State of the Garden

2007 + do as I say + General gardening + July + Landscape Design Know-How

Lavender Walk I have been gardening, not blogging, and this was one of my resolutions for 2007. So far so good. It has been hot here, but we received some rain earlier this month; a huge downpour on the Fourth, which as a lady at Curve’s said “We will take what ever comes and not…

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05.03.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Considering Birds

Landscape Design Know-How + Landscape Trees

Usually, garden writers talk about the birds during the fall and winter- discussing bird food, etc. Spring proves to be a good time to to think about planting shrubs and trees, so it is useful to include some information on plantings friendly to birdlife when considering what new plants to put into the general landscape…

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02.11.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Don’t Miss

Garden photos + Landscape Design Know-How

Perhaps you are more aware of Raven’s Nest than I was; if so, you perhaps read this excellent post on grasses in the landscape. I have long been looking at grasses as a way to make my gardens more in keeping with the environs here ( this was once prairie), but that isn’t the only…

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