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Low Maintenance Spring Bulb Garden, Nothing Easier

Ilona Erwin

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 […]

Landscape Design Know-How+ Spring Bulbs Ilona Erwin

Out Of Your Gourd Gardening

Ilona Erwin

Growing gourds for arts and crafts. Turn your homegrown gourds into useful and beautiful things for garden and home.

Garden crafts+ Plants+ Vegetable garden Ilona Erwin

Ornamental Trees are Big Impact for a Small Yard

Ilona Erwin

ornamental cherry trees

A selection of some of the best small garden trees to give your place flower and foliage. There are so many ways to use these to create interest and year round beauty in your landscape.

Landscape Design Know-How+ Landscape Trees Ilona Erwin

How To Grow Lavender For Its Heavenly Scent

Ilona Erwin

Lavender is one of the loveliest members of the herb garden. Learn how to grow it, use it, and appreciate it.

Garden Herbs+ Garden Perennial Plants Ilona Erwin

Growing Indoor Flowers In December

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Christmas Tree detail 2025

Today I was reading Teresa Byington’s Garden Diary blog, and her post on Amaryllis bulbs.   She brought back memories of the winter windowsill plantings through the years, including some Amaryllis. As she mentions, this is really easy gardening and most people have great success with the kits that are offered. Amaryllis is one of […]

Featured+ Spring Bulbs+ winter Ilona Erwin

Flowers that Monet Grew In Giverny

Ilona Erwin

late summer flowers

Which Flowers Did Monet Grow? Many of us are familiar with Claude Monet’s luminous paintings of his garden, but what of the gardener that created the scenes that capture our admiration? How did his garden grow? In his famous garden at Giverny we might know that Monet grew waterlilies, of which he made a number […]

An Armchair Gardener+ Garden design ideas+ Plants Ilona Erwin

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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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