Decorating your home is a great way to celebrate a new season. Whether it’s pumpkins and skeletons for Halloween, or Santa and snowmen for Christmas, these themed decorations can help your family and guests embrace the holiday spirit.
25.09.2024 - 23:13 / bhg.com
Sasha Gulish
As popular as edible gardens may be these days, they still tend to be thought of as distinct from the rest of the yard. California-based landscape designer Christian Douglas has other ideas: «What if we embraced vegetables, fruits, herbs, and berries, letting them share the prime real estate in our yards alongside our patios, paths, even our front walks?» That's the premise of his new book, The Food Forward Garden (Artisan; available for pre-order now). In it, he spotlights the ways in which you can make food crops a vital—and beautiful—part of all kinds of home gardens. Let this sampling of ideas from the book inspire you to think beyond the vegetable bed.
Sasha Gulish
This stunningly landscaped backyard bears a sweet secret—it's full of fruit to harvest. Douglas chose trees that combine beautiful foliage with delicious fruit, including the dwarf 'Bonfire' peach and red Abyssinian banana trees in the foreground and the 'Arctic Supreme' peach, Fuyu persimmon, 'Bearss' lime, 'Eureka' lemon, and Nagami kumquat trees along the borders. Around the stepping stones, he also snuck in herbs like thyme, marjoram, and oregano.
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Entertaining space or edible garden? You don't actually have to choose, as this small suburban backyard proves. Douglas framed a lounge area on the patio with raised beds full of herbs, plus an espalier lemon-and-lime hedge. «Dark purple basil borders the backrest, perfuming the air and offering a stunning contrast to the eye-catching orange and crimson pillows,» Douglas writes.
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«We're always looking for ways to blend hardscape edibles,» writes Douglas. In this yard, he and his team cleverly backfilled the timber steps with soil instead of gravel and then planted culinary
Decorating your home is a great way to celebrate a new season. Whether it’s pumpkins and skeletons for Halloween, or Santa and snowmen for Christmas, these themed decorations can help your family and guests embrace the holiday spirit.
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