Garden Pictures


I take a lot of pictures of plants and gardens and this is where I share them with you.  

I'm working on the best way to organize these pictures.  At the moment, I'm thinking of organizing by subject.   This will be an ongoing challenge to present you with all the pictures I'd like to share and still make it easy to find them.  

This is also the location of the garden picture contests I regularly run. You can be notified of these by signing up for the newsletter here.

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Contests

Spring 2011

gardening pots Spring 2011 saw these gorgeous garden pictures uploaded.

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Fall 09

outdoor lighting Garden picture contest for Fall 2009 focussing on backyard landscaping pictures

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Spring 09

garden mulch Spring 09 saw a large number of lovely garden pictures

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Other Pictures

Backyard Pictures

Here are a few shots of my backyard garden and a place for you to share your backyard landscaping pictures.

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Clematis Pictures

I took a few pics of a blue clematis and wanted to share them with you

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Sunloving Plants

Some sunloving plants and places for you to share your favorites.

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Coneflower Pictures

I like Echinacea (coneflower) and here are a few of my favorites

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Blue Annual Salvia

The annual Victoria Blue Salvia

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Birdhouse Pictures

I love taking pics of these buildings and will (one day) get around to building a ton of them in my garden

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Container Gardens

Here's a place for you to pick up a few ideas about container gardening

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May 7, 2012

Gardeners Journal - Growing Brunnera

Brunnera is an amazing spring blooming perennial plant that's ideal for the shade garden. Blooming in early spring with forget-me-not blue blossoms, this

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May 7, 2012

Gardeners Journal Pruning Hellebore

When it comes to pruning Hellebore, I do it in the fall because I want the new growth to come up clean and early so I can see the flowers. If I allow

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May 2, 2012

Gardeners Journal Early Vegetable Gardening Using a Cloche

You want an early vegetable gardening tip? This one is simple to do, uses recycled material and can give you early salad grens as well as earlier tomatoes,

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May 1, 2012

Gardeners Journal - Variegated Daylily Problems

I note reversion is a major problem of some plants - this is where the variegated leaves grow out straight green without the variegation. And if you don't

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May 1, 2012

Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction'

Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction' was planted in fall of 2006 in a sunny part of the perennial garden and has been a winner for me. Sun: Full sun all day -

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May 1, 2012

Echinacea Alaska

I wasn't a bit fan of the generic, purple Echinacea, visually speaking. Why? Well, quite frankly, they look like not-really-purple badminton birdies.

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Apr 27, 2012

Gardeners Journal - Pruning Roses in the Spring

Pruning roses in the spring isn't tough when you consider the basic shape you're trying to create. As I explain in this short video, you want to create

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Apr 27, 2012

Gardeners Journal - A Moveable Raised Garden Bed

As part of my gardener's journal, I'm showing you a lot of behind-the-scenes videos of projects in development. This compares with what normally happens

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Apr 27, 2012

Gardeners Journal - Spring Flowering Cottage Garden

This is my spring flowering cottage garden area - at least one small part of it :-) And I'm going to show you some of the bulbs and perennials I have

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Apr 27, 2012

Gardeners Journal - Growing Rhubarb

Growing small fruit such as rhubarb has been something I've done since I was a kid. I remember our patch at home (roots came from my grandfather's garden)

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Apr 25, 2012

Plant Planner App from Safer

First, I've been a big fan of Safer's organic insect control products for many years; I even used them in the greenhouses and nursery back in the day.

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Apr 24, 2012

Gardeners Journal: Naturalizing Daffodils

One of the things I'm doing at our place is planting at least 100 daffodils every fall into different parts of our gardens and lawns. Last year it was

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Apr 23, 2012

Gardening Journal - when to divide hosta (and other plants)

This gardening journal video shows you the exact stage when to divide hosta plants. This timing is the same for most other perennials as well - at an

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Apr 19, 2012

THE EDIBLE GARDEN

The Edible Garden It all started with a Mojito! It all started with a Mojito one clear balmy evening abroad. It was so refreshing, “I’d like some mint

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Apr 18, 2012

My Courtyard Garden - Potted Spring Tulips

Never having tried the technique of layering spring flowering bulbs in a garden pot, last fall I decided to layer 50 apricot tulips. Once the bulbs were

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