Inspiration Ideas, Tips & Guides

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Are you searching for the best flower quotes and flower captions?  This list has over one hundred beautiful flower sayings and inspirational floral quotes to lift your mood and put a smile on your face.

MY, HOW TIMES have changed. That’s what I keep thinking, looking around my own garden in recent years. I’ve been struck by the same thought over and over as I read “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” the latest book by Margaret Renkl (illustrated with gorgeous collages by her brother, Billy Renkl, like the one above), which takes us through a year in her garden 1,000 miles to the south of mine in Nashville.

Today I learned about the social media phenomenon that is #FingerpostFriday. It involves people posting images of fingerposts. But I’d never heard that name used for the things I simply call signposts.

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Header image: A lake outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, where methane is being released from thawing permafrost. Taken as NASA-led effort (the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE) to advance our ability to monitor changing Arctic and boreal ecosystems started its second season in May 2017.  Image credit: NASA

I’M TAKEN by the provocative work of landscape architect Thomas Rainer, which is why he’s the guest speaker August 20, at my next Garden Conservancy Open Day. Even if you can’t visit then, two conversations I’ve had with Thomas warrant a read or listen.

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Here are some amazing DIY Patio Garden Ideas that can make your outdoor space go from dull to super cool in no time!

Vining plants add a great aesthetic appeal to the rooms and can make any boring wall come alive with greenery! Here are some eye-catching Indoor Climbers Pictures that you can take ideas from.

Whether you’re creating a garden for the first time or simply looking to update your garden then you’ll find plenty of inspirational ideas on Instagram. Today we take a look at four of our favourite landscape and plant specialists who consistently post exciting and motivating photos. So why not expand your horizons beyond our own shores and follow these four popular garden instagram accounts : @studiodinamo Be sure to c

Inspiration for a Courtyard Garden On our recent trip to Spain we visited some lovely courtyard gardens in Cordoba and the surrounding area. Whilst the grand public courtyards were impressive it was the domestic courtyard gardens that provided the most inspiration.

A Natural Inspiration Sarah Price has an extraordinary skill for conjuring up naturalistic plantings that look like they have always been there. The garden gives the impression of being the culmination of many long walks in the countryside where she has closely observed plant associations that please her and used them as her inspiration for this garden.

Sir Paul Smith finds inspiration at the Chelsea Flower Show Last week I somewhat reluctantly took the train to London for a second day in a row to attend the late afternoon RHS press briefing for Chelsea 2015.  Don’t get me wrong – I was interested – it was the prospect of a two hour journey home on a crowded commuter train that put me off. I’M SO GLAD I WENT.

But I was particularly taken by a pair of preliminary sketches by Philip Webb that accompany a newly restored William Morris hanging, featuring a fox and a hare, each with flowers in the foreground. I kept returning to them for another look. The route to the Tapestry Room is through the magnificent bling of the Jewellery Galleries and here too there are plants to be found and admired. One way and another it was a thoroughly enjoyable way to fill a couple of hours.

You can get citrus fruits in pots, even indoors if you’ve got a sunny window.

Looking for green ideas to grace up your lofty abode? Look at some fantastic Apartment Balcony Gardens on Reddit for Perfect Inspiration!

A balcony looking bigger due to whitewashed walls, black wooden flooring that is giving it a deep look and glass railing.

If you want to make your plants match well with the pots then here are some awesome DIY Planter Ideas that you can use!

This apartment balcony in Paris, Belleville, is made into an urban jungle. Ideal for taking fresh breakfasts and lunches. Table and chairs are surrounded by lush vegetation of fast-growing, low care plant species: Fatsia japonica with the large glossy leaves (erroneously referred as castor oil plant), golden bamboo (Phyllostachys aurea) that is covering the space tightly and kōwhai (Sophora tetraptera) a plant coming from New Zealand. Also, the Eden rose is adding a charming touch of color. If you are concerned about the privacy in your balcony, you can grow similar plants.

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We have included some of the best DIY Plant Stand Ideas in this list to make sure your plants look much better in the rooms!

Susan Suzy shared a picture of her beautiful balcony flower garden on our page.

Like every month, we bring you some of the most fabulous Balcony Garden Ideas from Instagram for the month of August! Enjoy and don’t forget to take the ideas!

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