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Vegetable Garden, Flowers, Cactus and succulents, and various pets and wild life.

New garden plants introduced by our members for the 2010 gardening season

I have a typical suburban-sized yard that we've landscaped over the past 15 years with mixed borders, incorporating lots of shrubs and perennials, and mixed among these are vegetables (lettuces, tomatoes and peppers),...

since 2 years i am working this beautiful land. we have around 10 acres, mainly woods on steep ground, but around the house i am creating a flower garden, and a field with all the veggies we wanna eat.

Multiple gardens actually. Front yard drough tolerant, california herbal with succulents and rock roses. Back yard family area Veg patch and Fruit trees.

Located 30 miles south of San Francisco, Filoli is an historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century. This 654-acre property,...

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The Ruth Bancroft Garden is a non-profit organization with a mission to preserve the exceptional example of garden design and to continue to develop its collection of water-conserving plants for the education and enjoyment...

These are a few from my trip last year...it is quite lovely and a zone 8, believe it or not.

My garden is my art, literally. I grow plants so I can photograph them in new and interesting ways. There is such a variety of plants in the San Francisco Bay Area and I pluck not only from my yard, but along the trail...

Twenty-five years ago the Palo Alto Garden Club started Roots & Shoots, a cultivation project and garden "laboratory" as part of the third grade science curriculum at Walter Hays School and in 2010, it is still...

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

Flower gardens, herb garden, 3 vegetable gardens... I just keep digging up my children's grassy yard and growing them organic food!

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

I love to garden.  Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens.  Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden.   

A small balcony in Amsterdam, with morning sun. Click on the photos for more explanation!

Welcome to the Insect News Network on YourGardenShow! The I.N.N. travels the globe to learn how people think and feel about our 6- and 8-legged friends. The I.N.N. is a non-stop, multi-media interdisciplinary plunge...

My front yard is sunny and somewhat like an English garden. One side-yard is sunny and is all plants (roses, flower, herbs) and mulch. The other side and backyard is mostly shade with appropriate shade plants.

Heaven's early reward for a loyal Cardinal, this garden is where the succession of Renaissance Popes was drafted, with all the neighbors taking a turn running the world. It has such a masterful water plan that the hydrologist...

The Borghese were upper middle class merchants in Rome at the end of the Renaissance. But in those days wealthy and wealthier families were a dime a dozen and to assure your legacy in history, you needed a Pope in the...

The Borghese were upper middle class merchants in Rome at the end of the Renaissance. But in those days wealthy and wealthier families were a dime a dozen and to assure your legacy in history, you needed a Pope in the...

The Borghese were upper middle class merchants in Rome at the end of the Renaissance. But in those days wealthy and wealthier families were a dime a dozen and to assure your legacy in history, you needed a Pope in the...

These are some interesting vertical gardens I have seen this month in San Francisco

This is a very cool public sculpture park in St. Louis, Missouri. More than 80 works of contemporary sculpture within a 105-acre natural landscape. The park hosts several exhibitions and a multitude of cultural events...

Greetings from Herald, CA. Located just South East of Sacramento by 20 miles. Millions of grape vines cover the Herald landscape and vegetables grow well here with a good compost pile to nourish our Green Garden....

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

Welcome to our very Humble Garden!We will blog our journey as we finally build our raised beds, our chicken house, our wood shed, and the biomass microgenerator that will power and heat these things.We are a family...

http://mygardenandhome.blogspot.com As a volunteer gardener I created these gardens for myself and our co-op community. 

Collection of 70 Acer palmatums, mostly all different varieties. Mostly planted from 1 to 5 gallon containers. Most under 7 years old.

Typical front foundation landscape and back yard flower plantings, by complete amateur.

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

I love to garden.  Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens.  Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden.   

Located about 15 miles from Wilson's Park in Fayetteville are the Terra Studios of Durham, Arkansas.  The studios are a few miles east of Fayetteville on Highway 16.  The studio produces the Bluebird of Happiness.(blue...

An active spring emerges from behind the iron door with the Dogwood flower on it.  Prior to 1979 , there was an unsightly concrete spring house located over the spring.  The presence of this spring house is why this...

I have an embarrassment of peony riches at my home in the Hudson Valley and I am a peony junkie. I have always loved these late spring blooming plants for the showy blossoms which look, for all the world, like party...

Have a seat. Enjoy the view.

Have a seat. Enjoy the view.

Our garden is an "Outdoor Classroom" for the El Dorado Community School as well as a community garden. It is located about 12 miles southeast of Santa Fe, NM. We started January 10, 2009 and we now have 70 paid members(students...

This is my friends' garden, in Goiana, Brazil. (population 2 million)  They are about 120 miles south of Brasilia (the capital).  The tree with the grape-looking fruit is called Jabutacaba (or jabuticabeira in Portugese). ...

Ecuador is situated on the Equator in western South America. The country offers all ecosystems from sea level up to 6310 meters. In Ecuador we organize several times a year a Tour where we visit various Flower Plantations...

Welcome to my attempt at vegetable gardening in the backyard of a small condo with raised beds. A bed that receives no direct sun during the winter and way too much in the hot Arizona summer. This is my journey.

Primary garden is about 30 by 12 feet inside a 2 ft block wall.  Various sections of the 1/2 acre are being  prepared for different vegetables, peppers and squash.  Rocky soil with caliche is challenging, lots of...

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

I love to garden.  Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens.  Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden.   

I'm trying to raise as much of my own food as I can on what little land I have. I keep chickens for the eggs and grow the veggies I like. The problem is that my chickens are little escape artists and get into the garden...

lots of roses

 

With the addition of a hundred more roses, the ambitious restoration of the historic, Shurcliff-era rose garden in the Back Bay Fens was completed in the spring of 2008. Thousands of new roses have been planted, attractive...

This is a space for Public Gardens! And this one is dedicated to International Women's Day. On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, people from around the world are celebrating women – mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers,...

I've been working on my garden for 20 years.  After raising 3 sons, it's changed from a play yard with lawn to an edible landscape, with native plants, bee and hummingbird gardens and a vegetable garden camouflaged...

For the people and by the people in downtown Muskegon, Michigan. We deliver food to home bound seniors while also having 12 families who grow all natural food for home use. We have started a fruit crop with strawberries,...

I have a vegetable garden which has been very productive. In addition I grow perennials and herbs. My garden has little shade so when it is dry, and hot it tends to suffer from low moisture.  I added a small greenhouse...

I have both a small potager in raised beds and a front herb garden for medicinal plants. I also raise some tree and small fruits, shrubs and trees.

Our large organic gardens contain over 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables, most of which are heirlooms. We freeze, water bath can, pressure can, dry, and ferment to preserve food, and use the root cellar, cool storage,...

Organically grown veggies, fruits, herbs, a few edible flowers plus our backyard flock provide much of what our family needs each year.

Our slogan is "Growing a Community at Work". We started our employee "community" garden in June 2010 with 16 garden plots. By 2011, it had grown to 31 plots with 60 plus gardeners. It has been hugely successful...

In 2008 we moved to our home in the middle of one of Sacramento's oldest neighborhood. The backyard was overgrown and unkempt. We began the slow process of removing old dying trees and weeds. A shovel at a time we leveled...

Just our back yard garden were I also grow children. 

My ex-husband and I got back together...while I was selling my house, he built this beautiful veggie garden and the greenhouse/potting shed in lieu of a diamond....

I bought my grandparents home in 2005 after they both passed away. The backyard was mostly grass and a few mature trees. Over the years, I've planted perennials, evergreens and flowers. Soon after, I started a small...

I've personally been gardening this space for nearly four years, always trying to expand my planting area. I currently have about 300 square feet of planting space in the front yard, which is primarily devoted to edibles....

Small market garden that specializes in all the things the big farms don't grow, including Asian greens, edible flowers, and year round vegetables.The best thing about keeping a garden, is all the fresh food one...

Our garden at this home started two years ago when we moved here.  We can't use any poisons for bugs because we also have bees.  So we plowed up the spot where the previous owners kept their horses, and we have not...

No money to fix up the house, so we're using it as the best garden shed in town... saving seeds, trading plants and produce with friends, shoveling up manure from our neighbor's horse, harvesting bamboo for next year's...

Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers  plantains,bananas,mangoes,papaya,anona ,avocados,limes ,yucca.and herbs. What we don't eat fresh we can. Started this garden back in 2005. Began with just a few plants  from the local...

I tend not to do things as one might expect and my garden is no exception. The design is circular, with keyholes dividing the space along the points of the compass. The beds were built using the 'sheet composting' method...

My garden was born as a seed of potential in 1996 when we moved to a house that gave our family of four some root room after being pot-bound for 12 years. My husband built me a small raised bed to grow salad greens...

My garden is interesting. Frustrated with terrible soil, bad irrigation design and horrible weed infestations, I am slowly moving to raised beds. I have grown tomatoes, okra, squash, broccoli, strawberries, onions,...

The Ogden community garden is on the front lawn of Ogden Publications. It consists of two 25-by-27-foot garden beds -- one on each side of the company's sign. Employees work in the organic, company-sponsored garden...

I have started to use raised beds because it makes it easier to maintain. I think of it as senior gardening as I get older. Ha

An urban farm located in Vallejo, CA. We strive to grow all of our produce.

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

I love to garden.  Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens.  Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden.   

Elizabeth Gamble's historic urban estate with formal, woodland and working gardens surrounds a 1902 Edwardian house. Twenty-five years ago the Palo Alto Garden Club started a volunteer partnership to help restore and...

My garden is my art, literally. I grow plants so I can photograph them in new and interesting ways. There is such a variety of plants in the San Francisco Bay Area and I pluck not only from my yard, but along the trail...

I have a large deck in the back yard with a lot of containers and some garden around the edges. I grow mostly for color, and form and have tomatoes, citrus and herbs for the kitchen.

This wonderful garden in Walnut Creek, CA has an interesting history which you can read about on their web site. It is full of succulents, cacti and drought tolerant plants. Worth a visit if you are in the...

The big attraction today was the rare blooming of the Corpse Flower. They have so many amazing plants.

My garden began with one raised bed.  I grew up in Ohio where you could pretty much stick a plant in the ground and it would grow.   I now live in Texas where the "soil"  is not soil.   Its clay.  I think they...

We started in 2008 with about 100 square feet of raised beds and since we have expanded to about 500 square feet of garden space and 100 square feet of greenhouse space.  The garden lies at 6000 feet elevation and...

Since I began studying permaculture in 2004, I have been shifting more towards growing plants that are edible, medicinal, insectary, nitrogen fixing, native, or can be used to create natural dyes.

We are 3 blocks from the beach in northern san diego.  We have clay&sandy soils that I have slowly built up using compost/manure, cover crops, and in ground burns.  We live on a subdivided portion of an old avocado...

This is the story (in pictures and words) of the transformationof my 3,000 square ft. childhood backyard in West Los Angeles, from a shadedfield of weeds and 50 foot trees into a sun-soaked, Bio-intensive, urbanmini-farm....

This is the only vegetable-producing public school garden on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is maintained by middle school students and serves the needs of low income children and families in the community. Established...

So I just finished this greenhouse with some help from my family. I'm trying to pull off a passive solar design. Initially I was going to put in a rocket mass heater but just sort of ran out of time and I thought it...

i haven't had the opportunity to grow my own garden, yet. instead i have a great appreciation for other people's work in the dirt. i also really like photography so its a nice mix betwixed us.

This is a collection of beautiful colors that I have seen out and about.

This garden was such an amazing place. Out here in San Francisco, summer is a concept, not a reality, so it was great going into the conservatory for some warm tropical mist and plant lovelies. I even took off my coat!Anyone...

I just went to Thailand for a month and captured some of the interesting things I saw to share! These photos were taken on Koh Phi Phi, Koh Lanta and Koh Phucket ('Koh' means island). I had a wonderful time seeing the...

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