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2007-08-08 15:10:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Here are some ideas
You can create a garden of blues & purples like this Monet garden:
http://monet.xaper.com/Garden_at_Giverny.html
Sometimes you can use just a few plants with stones or a fountain as a focal point.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ush-ans&va=landscaping+ideas&sz=
Easy-care perennial rock garden:
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/2006sp_rockgarden.html
Aurinia saxatilis 'Citrina' (basket of gold)
Cerastium tomentosum (snow in summer)
Dianthus gratianopolitanus (cheddar pink)
Phlox subulata (moss phlox)
Sagina subulata (Irish moss)
Sedum telephium ssp. ruprechtii 'Hab Gray' (stonecrop)
Sempervivum tectorum (hens and chicks)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Yucca filamentosa (Adam's needle)
Zauschneria californica (California fuchsia)
A fragrant garden:
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/2002su_fragrance.html
Abelia x grandiflora 'Compacta' (Abelia)
Cytisus x dallimorei 'Lena' (Broom)
Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Feuerhexe' (Clove pink)
Dianthus 'Tiny Rubies' (Clove pink)
Hosta plantaginea 'Aphrodite' (Plantain lily)
Lantana camara 'Miss Huff' (Hardy lantana)
Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' (Lavender)
Lonicera periclymenum 'Serotina' (European honeysuckle)
Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen' (Oregano)
Rosa 'Aloha' (Climbing rose)
Salvia officinalis (Sage)
Thymus vulgaris 'Argenteus' (Silver thyme)
Valeriana officinalis (Garden heliotrope)
Private gardens:
http://www.carolynbates.com/gardens/private/priv_gardens.htm
Front Yard Landscaping Ideas:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=front+yard+landscaping&rs=3&fr2=xpl&_adv_prop=image&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans&vf=
Backyard Landscaping:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=backyard+landscaping&rs=4&fr2=xpl&_adv_prop=image&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans&vf=
Landscape Designs: (Click on each picture for more detail & info)Here are some formal designs:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=landscape+design&rs=2&fr2=xpl&_adv_prop=image&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans&vf=
Landscaping pictures:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im...
Garden Plans, Yard Makeovers, Garden Designs, Outdoor Rooms:
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=AutogNrGa.56HP_Ikl8tQr2B6xR.?link=list&sid=396545397
Top 10 Tips for Do-It-Yourself Landscaping:
http://landscaping.about.com/od/designex...
Good luck! Hope this helps.
2007-08-08 16:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by ANGEL 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would be wonderful if you can grow flowering plants that can provide nectar for butterflies--then you would have the beauty of the flowers AND the butterflies--and will be doing these fragile creatures a great favor. Butterflies like red, magenta, purple, blue colored flowers that are no more than 1 inch deep in the throat and no more than 1 inch wide--or flowers that size that grow in clusters. I don't know where you live but here are some suggestions--penta, purple coneflower, plumbago, salvias, golden drewdrop, firceracker bush, blue porterweed, snapdragons, cat's whiskers and gaillardia to name a few. Check them out on the net to see what size they are at maturity so that you will know what they look like and how they can fit in your garden.
2007-08-08 15:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bromeliad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Here are some nice small gardens:
http://www.melbalevickphotos.com/small_gardens/index.htm
2. Go to this screen at Yahoo! and look in on the links:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070804203039AA8nnM1
2007-08-08 15:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋