Honoring “Rosie the Riveter” with gardens
The Rosie Rose Gardens idea has grown when it was realized that America needed to honor the ‘Rosies’ who’d worked at the home front during WWII. We can help.
A Return to the Victory Garden
Don’t just hide away from the outdoors during the Covid quarantine – start a Victory Garden in your yard. 5 ideas to start up your healthy vegetable garden.
Packing the most into a small rose garden
Just because you may have less space than the imagined acre of your dream house, don’t think you can’t make your current yard attractive. Especially in 2020.
Rose Gardening for the Birds
Most good wild bird nesting sites require good leaf cover, correctly shaped twig structures that fit the bird, & finally a location 5-10 feet off the ground.
8 Advanced Garden Design Principles
These 8 agreed-upon rules have proven invaluable over years of garden-making by many people. If used, they will result in a more successful, satisfying design.
Where should I plant my roses?
Consider these 5 basic criteria for locating your rose patch. Roses need 6 hours of full sun from February to October to grow & bloom well with little disease.
Tacoma’s Pt. Defiance Rose Garden
An image-heavy intro to one of Washington’s largest rose gardens in a large urban community park overlooking Puget Sound with included info-links per usual.
Spatially define your rose garden
3 simple answers to how to define an edge to highlight your rose garden. Described with products & their pictures, it will get you sharpening your edges.
Starting up a new rose patch
Start with where you are: find a map, compass, & notepad – plus time out in the yard to do a layout. Fall is a great time to lay out your 6 hours per day plan.
What are the best roses for my western garden?
A brief answer here with images & links to help you out with selecting great roses for your garden. Colors, names, & reference materials are included also.
4 Fragrant Rose Gardens
Here are 4 remarkable gardens. 2 in France, 2 in England that inspire me through my nose & hands to add aromatic plants to my designs.
Monet’s estate in Giverny
Monet’s garden was one of his biggest sources of inspiration, so he created and managed the expansions himself with precise instructions for his 7 gardeners.
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