When browsing kitchens and baths on TikTok or Instagram, you’ve likely noticed a proliferation of boldly veined marble taking over your feed. If you are intrigued by this statement-making stone, let us introduce you to Calacatta Viola marble.
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It took me about a decade of gardening to learn restraint at the nursery when shopping for plants. But these days, I'm pretty strict about what makes it into my tiny backyard garden: Plants need to serve a real aesthetic or practical purpose and have interesting foliage for most, if not all, of the year.
That’s why the giant leopard plant (Farfugium japonicum var.giganteum), with its unusual, oversized round leaves, recently caught my eye. Lately, I’ve been spotting it in some of my favorite garden designers’ projects, including many in warm, dry regions like the one I live in. Maybe it was the plant to finally fill an empty patch of a shady bed in my backyard? Before making the leap, though, I needed to do my homework.
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Giant leopard plant (sometimes called tractor seat plant) is an herbaceous perennial with glossy round leaves up to 18 inches across on plants reaching 3 to 4 feet tall. It comes from Japan, where it grows in shady spots along stream banks and in coastal areas. In late summer and fall, it sports small, yellow, daisy-like flowers.
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Garden designers are drawn to the giant leopard plant for the same reason it appealed to me: Those leaves. «Its rounded leaf form and glossy green color reminds us of a lily pond's edge,“ says Jessie Booth, partner (with Clementine Jang) at California landscape design firm Soft Studio. Flora Grubb notes that the plant is hugely popular at her eponymous style-forward nurseries in San Francisco and Los Angeles: „The adorable leaves remind me of the Pilea peperomioides, which people also went nuts for a few years ago.“ Yep, I was one of those people.
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Creating a natural privacy screen in the open space of your apartment or a patio can be an effective way to maintain a sense of solitude and block out dust and prying eyes. Here’s a curated list of Tall Plants for Balcony Privacy that also grow wide, offering dense foliage suitable for this purpose.
Even the smallest garden benefits from including at least one tree – if chosen well, they provide year-round colour and interest, benefit wildlife and can make a small garden seem bigger. There’s a host of beautiful trees that can be grown in a small garden, and some that will thrive in a container. Here, we share some of our favourite trees for small gardens. There are options to suit every garden style and trees that will provide fabulous autumn foliage, beautiful spring blossom and delicious fruit for you or vibrant berries for the birds. Our choices include recommendations from the Gardeners’ World team and familiar faces from across the gardening industry.
Chrysanthemum Flower Meaning holds a special significance that ranges differently from cultures and its colors. If you want to know what it signifies, keep reading!
From squiggly furniture to blob-shaped rugs, it’s clear that curves are making a comeback in design. Bubble houses in particular have been, and continue to be, a fascination when it comes to architecture.
When it comes to pruning season, trimming and shaping trees and shrubs with thick, woody growth can feel like a daunting task. While your secateurs and other essential gardening tools may not be up to the task, a strong pair of anvil garden loppers is more than capable of tackling tougher trimming jobs. Used with with both hands their long handles make them ideal for cutting branches up to 50mm thick and if you’re pruning dense dead wood, then a pair of loppers with an anvil blade is the tool for you. Cuts are made as the top blade slices through the wood onto the flat anvil base. They can crush stems as they cut and although bypass blades make cleaner, more precise cuts, anvil blades have greater force. They are ideal for clearing dead branches and making the first cut on thick branches before removing them cleanly with bypass loppers or a saw. Loppers are available with telescopic handles that extend for greater reach and most have an additional cutting mechanism to help you cut thicker wood with less effort, helpful for those with less strength and for very tough wood.
We’re off to Pennsylvania today to enjoy fall in Rhonda Molin’s garden.
It is such a gardening triumph to put together a few plants that play nicely together and create a memorable vignette to mark the season. In this episode, Danielle, Carol, and guest Susan Morrison will talk about some plant combinations that look great as the season winds down. Listen in and get inspired to add more winning teams to your late season lineup next year.
Fionuala Campion says in her article, Dazzling Deer-Resistant Perennials, “Though very graceful and delightful to behold in their native habitat, deer are a voracious force to reckon with in many Northern California gardens, particularly in summer and fall.” But these majestic creatures are not just an issue for gardeners on the west coast. There are populations of deer in all 50 states, and all are munching on the many different plants we’re growing across the country.
Fionuala Campion says in her article, Dazzling Deer-Resistant Perennials, “Though very graceful and delightful to behold in their native habitat, deer are a voracious force to reckon with in many Northern California gardens, particularly in summer and fall.” But these majestic creatures are not just an issue for gardeners on the west coast. There are populations of deer in all 50 states, and all are munching on the many different plants we’re growing across the country.
Fionuala Campion says in her article, Dazzling Deer-Resistant Perennials, “Though very graceful and delightful to behold in their native habitat, deer are a voracious force to reckon with in many Northern California gardens, particularly in summer and fall.” But these majestic creatures are not just an issue for gardeners on the west coast. There are populations of deer in all 50 states, and all are munching on the many different plants we’re growing across the country.
Fionuala Campion says in her article, Dazzling Deer-Resistant Perennials, “Though very graceful and delightful to behold in their native habitat, deer are a voracious force to reckon with in many Northern California gardens, particularly in summer and fall.” But these majestic creatures are not just an issue for gardeners on the west coast. There are populations of deer in all 50 states, and all are munching on the many different plants we’re growing across the country.