Get a job at your local, privately owned garden center. You could work retail, or as a landscape laborer. Experience is worth the time it takes. I grew up in a family owned garden center while my father was teaching Plant %26amp; Soil Science at a university. By the time I was 17, I was grading his student's papers for him.
What is the best starting point for a career in gardening or landscape design?
Put an ad in the local ad paper and try to get customers
Reply:Go to your local college and ask them if they have classes in landscape design. Some have two year classes other four.
Learn all you can, the more you learn, the more you earn.
Landscaping is a big big business now!!
Reply:Get a job as a laborer with a landscape company.
Reply:Look for a program in Landscape Architecture. There are a lot all over the country! You'll get an awesome, rewarding, job that pays really well too!
Go to this link:
http://www.asla.org/
Then click on career resources.
I'm working on my masters in Landscape Architecture right now. It's a lot of work, but it's so fun and so worth it!
Good Luck!
Reply:contact your local "small business" that sells landscaping/decorative supplies, and ask them if they will allow you to subcontract for them. you will build a local client base there, then get your name out. remember, when you are starting your own business, you have to take baby steps, and WORD OF MOUTH is the best advertising tool
Reply:sneak across he US border
shoe labels
Monday, May 11, 2009
Looking for best software which can create professional looking landscaping+garden designs + free photos?
Hi I am looking for best software which can create easy to make professional looking 3D landscaping and Garden designs. The software should have everything ready to copy paste or insert for making designs. Their should be option to give the size according to our need and use curves and slops.
Also looking for websites which has photos of landscape garden patio designs free download.
Thanks for all who answers.
Looking for best software which can create professional looking landscaping+garden designs + free photos?
sure, google's Picasa will do it, it's free and works well, here's the link
http://www.sleekbytes.com/picasa-google....
as per landscape designs, here's google's search
http://images.google.it/images?hl=en%26amp;q=l...
if it helps please remember me cheers and thanks for the 2 points!
Also looking for websites which has photos of landscape garden patio designs free download.
Thanks for all who answers.
Looking for best software which can create professional looking landscaping+garden designs + free photos?
sure, google's Picasa will do it, it's free and works well, here's the link
http://www.sleekbytes.com/picasa-google....
as per landscape designs, here's google's search
http://images.google.it/images?hl=en%26amp;q=l...
if it helps please remember me cheers and thanks for the 2 points!
Looking for on line landscaping site where I can actually design gardens with a download of my house.?
Have heard of sites where you can actually design landscaping around your home probably with a downloaded picture
Looking for on line landscaping site where I can actually design gardens with a download of my house.?
Actually it would be an upload since you would be uploading to their site, not downloading from it. And you'd have to buy software, but once you have the software, you'll find many uses for it. Sometimes you can join a garden club where they have a software library.
Reply:any store like circuit city, best buy, places that sell software
look around they have software where you can create your house step by step from the roof down and you can size your garden etc then choose the options for grass, soil, flowers and such, most of these have links to take you to internet options for purchase.
they can show you what your plant will look like from baby to full growth and what it will look like during the different seasons.
check out the source below, put that in your search and search the web, you will get a few options.
also call the store or look them up on the net and see what options they have.
but you may need to know these are not cheap, most will run you 70-100 green ones or more.
you can get them on sale for about 39.99 but I have never found any cheaper.
maybe e-bay?
Looking for on line landscaping site where I can actually design gardens with a download of my house.?
Actually it would be an upload since you would be uploading to their site, not downloading from it. And you'd have to buy software, but once you have the software, you'll find many uses for it. Sometimes you can join a garden club where they have a software library.
Reply:any store like circuit city, best buy, places that sell software
look around they have software where you can create your house step by step from the roof down and you can size your garden etc then choose the options for grass, soil, flowers and such, most of these have links to take you to internet options for purchase.
they can show you what your plant will look like from baby to full growth and what it will look like during the different seasons.
check out the source below, put that in your search and search the web, you will get a few options.
also call the store or look them up on the net and see what options they have.
but you may need to know these are not cheap, most will run you 70-100 green ones or more.
you can get them on sale for about 39.99 but I have never found any cheaper.
maybe e-bay?
Dre and Ned both work for a botanical garden.The botanical garden is adding a number of floral designs around?
The botanical garden is adding a number of floral designs around its grounds. Dre, who has more experience, can plant the flowers and make the design by herself in 3 hours. it take Ned 5 hours working by himself to make the same design. If Dre and Ned are assigned to work together, how long will it take to make the design?
Dre and Ned both work for a botanical garden.The botanical garden is adding a number of floral designs around?
This is not really a question about botany at all, but rather a math problem that must be solved using rates. Dre plants at a rate of (1 design) / (3 hours) and Ned plants at a rate of (1 design) / (5 hours). If they work together, their combined rate is 1/3 + 1/5 = 8/15 = 0.5333 design/hr, so it takes 0.53 hours, which is 32 minutes.
Reply:The theoretical answer is around a half hour. But sometimes there is synergy and the more experience worker can tell the less experienced worker how to do his job more efficiently. Thus if there is synergy the job could be done a lot quicker.
However in some cases when two people are doing a job one of the worker may goof off and even sabotage the job causing the job to take longer.
Thus 8/15 of an hour is a rough approximation and the time required to finish the job may vary. Interestingly enough since they both did the job before they may with the experience may even finish the job faster than when they did the job previously. Thus not only is this question mathematical it is also philosophical and of practical experience.
Reply:i think you can find a great help in:
www.gadwood.com\index1.html
Dre and Ned both work for a botanical garden.The botanical garden is adding a number of floral designs around?
This is not really a question about botany at all, but rather a math problem that must be solved using rates. Dre plants at a rate of (1 design) / (3 hours) and Ned plants at a rate of (1 design) / (5 hours). If they work together, their combined rate is 1/3 + 1/5 = 8/15 = 0.5333 design/hr, so it takes 0.53 hours, which is 32 minutes.
Reply:The theoretical answer is around a half hour. But sometimes there is synergy and the more experience worker can tell the less experienced worker how to do his job more efficiently. Thus if there is synergy the job could be done a lot quicker.
However in some cases when two people are doing a job one of the worker may goof off and even sabotage the job causing the job to take longer.
Thus 8/15 of an hour is a rough approximation and the time required to finish the job may vary. Interestingly enough since they both did the job before they may with the experience may even finish the job faster than when they did the job previously. Thus not only is this question mathematical it is also philosophical and of practical experience.
Reply:i think you can find a great help in:
www.gadwood.com\index1.html
How to Design a Garden Path?
layout ,shape etc
How to Design a Garden Path?
Paths first serve a utilitarian function, making it easy to walk from
point A to point B. A basic path directs pedestrians pleasantly and
safely, keeping shoes dry in the process. But a well-designed path
does much more, inviting, sometimes hiding or revealing views, and
stimulating the senses. Paths also add interest to the garden by connecting
and unifying unrelated areas.
Instructions
STEP 1: Lay out the location and shape of the path. All things being equal, people walk in straight lines and will cut across right angle corners. Straight paths are predictable--but paths that disappear around a tree or a corner are more interesting, as well as more natural-looking. If a tree or boulder is in the way, curve your path around it. If a slope is too steep, put in a switchback. STEP 2: Make entry paths about 4 feet (1.2 m) wide so two people can walk side by side. Secondary garden paths, used by one person at a time, are narrower, from 30 to 36 inches (76 to 91 cm) wide. STEP 3: Choose a paving material that is suitable to its intended use. A path that will receive regular use needs to be solid, evenly set and not slippery. The best choices are brick or concrete pavers, poured concrete, cut stones or large stones set close together. Think about what materials would complement your house and its natural surroundings. Stroll through various neighborhoods and thumb through garden magazines to get ideas. STEP 4: Make sure the path won't bog down in water. In order to drain correctly, solid paths of concrete, brick or stone need to slope away from the house at 1⁄8 inch for every foot of length (1 degree), or 1⁄4 inch per foot of width (2 degrees). Or make the finished path about 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) higher than the adjacent grade. STEP 5: Excavate a sufficiently deep gravel base to ensure that pavers stay level for years to come. In the South and West, where the ground doesn't freeze, make the gravel base about 4 inches (10 cm) deep. In soils that do freeze, make your base 5 to 8 inches (13 to 20 cm) deep. Confirm with a local supplier. STEP 6: Add a 1- to 2-inch (2.5 to 5 cm) layer of leveling sand over the gravel so that you can nudge a stone or brick slightly until it's in just the right position. If weeds are a likely problem, lay down a layer of landscape fabric over the gravel before adding the sand. STEP 7: Use an edging to hold closely laid pavers in place. Edgings are commonly made of masonry, aluminum or steel. STEP 8: Use low-growing plants such as blue fescue (Festuca), candytuft (Iberis) or bush germander (Teucrium) along path edges to make the transition from path to landscape more graceful. Fill gaps between pavers with green carpet (Herniaria), blue star creeper (Laurentia), baby's tears (Soleirolia) or creeping (or woolly) thyme.
Reply:Hire someone.
Reply:dont know
Reply:HIRE HIRE HIRE
♠♠♠THE QUEEN OF HEARTS♠♠♠
Reply:I used a handy tool on the Lowes site to get a general idea. It enables you to create beds, lawn areas and pathways. Then I went out into the yard to fine tune the design. I used a garden hose to delineate the beds and tied string to stakes to get the pathways curving the way I wanted them to go. In my case, I have a very boxy home with a lot of straight lines so I curved my beds and pathways for more interest. I actually used paverstones for three of my pathways and stepping stones for two others. Then I simply chose a layout for the stones that worked for the shape I designed. One pavestone path was wide enough to have borders on both sides but the others weren't. It helped to buy a few of the stones and play with the layout before I ordered enough to actually build the walk.
But you can also use degenerated granite, bricks, gravel and a host of manufactured products to make your garden path.
Reply:Hire a landscape designer.
Reply:It depends upon the shape of the house and the path.Then u can make it appropriate--with colour and where to keep and gardening or the statue or water fall.All depends opon the availibility of money also.
Reply:Much like designing anything, you should sit down and draw up a few different ideas of what you'd envision the end product as being. Think about the area that you've got and what sort of opportunities that there are to use some of the natural landmarks in the spot where you're going to put the garden path. There's likely a natural path already there which you can build upon and develop.
I built one for my parents once using the 12 X 12 flat blocks set in mud. After the mud dries, it's like you've got a solid walkway set in concrete.
Try some of these sites.
.
Good Luck!
Reply:The way we did ours was based on use of the area. At first, we monitored how we moved through the space without any path. Then we started to create simple planting areas and added plants. These planting areas defined the paths in reverse...what wasn't in the area, became the path. Three years later, we have a mini botanical garden in our yard. Complete with paths, lights beautiful flowers and ornaments. And the best thing? We did it all by ourselves and looking at the fruits of our labors is way cool! Enjoy your garden.
rodeo buckle
How to Design a Garden Path?
Paths first serve a utilitarian function, making it easy to walk from
point A to point B. A basic path directs pedestrians pleasantly and
safely, keeping shoes dry in the process. But a well-designed path
does much more, inviting, sometimes hiding or revealing views, and
stimulating the senses. Paths also add interest to the garden by connecting
and unifying unrelated areas.
Instructions
STEP 1: Lay out the location and shape of the path. All things being equal, people walk in straight lines and will cut across right angle corners. Straight paths are predictable--but paths that disappear around a tree or a corner are more interesting, as well as more natural-looking. If a tree or boulder is in the way, curve your path around it. If a slope is too steep, put in a switchback. STEP 2: Make entry paths about 4 feet (1.2 m) wide so two people can walk side by side. Secondary garden paths, used by one person at a time, are narrower, from 30 to 36 inches (76 to 91 cm) wide. STEP 3: Choose a paving material that is suitable to its intended use. A path that will receive regular use needs to be solid, evenly set and not slippery. The best choices are brick or concrete pavers, poured concrete, cut stones or large stones set close together. Think about what materials would complement your house and its natural surroundings. Stroll through various neighborhoods and thumb through garden magazines to get ideas. STEP 4: Make sure the path won't bog down in water. In order to drain correctly, solid paths of concrete, brick or stone need to slope away from the house at 1⁄8 inch for every foot of length (1 degree), or 1⁄4 inch per foot of width (2 degrees). Or make the finished path about 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) higher than the adjacent grade. STEP 5: Excavate a sufficiently deep gravel base to ensure that pavers stay level for years to come. In the South and West, where the ground doesn't freeze, make the gravel base about 4 inches (10 cm) deep. In soils that do freeze, make your base 5 to 8 inches (13 to 20 cm) deep. Confirm with a local supplier. STEP 6: Add a 1- to 2-inch (2.5 to 5 cm) layer of leveling sand over the gravel so that you can nudge a stone or brick slightly until it's in just the right position. If weeds are a likely problem, lay down a layer of landscape fabric over the gravel before adding the sand. STEP 7: Use an edging to hold closely laid pavers in place. Edgings are commonly made of masonry, aluminum or steel. STEP 8: Use low-growing plants such as blue fescue (Festuca), candytuft (Iberis) or bush germander (Teucrium) along path edges to make the transition from path to landscape more graceful. Fill gaps between pavers with green carpet (Herniaria), blue star creeper (Laurentia), baby's tears (Soleirolia) or creeping (or woolly) thyme.
Reply:Hire someone.
Reply:dont know
Reply:HIRE HIRE HIRE
♠♠♠THE QUEEN OF HEARTS♠♠♠
Reply:I used a handy tool on the Lowes site to get a general idea. It enables you to create beds, lawn areas and pathways. Then I went out into the yard to fine tune the design. I used a garden hose to delineate the beds and tied string to stakes to get the pathways curving the way I wanted them to go. In my case, I have a very boxy home with a lot of straight lines so I curved my beds and pathways for more interest. I actually used paverstones for three of my pathways and stepping stones for two others. Then I simply chose a layout for the stones that worked for the shape I designed. One pavestone path was wide enough to have borders on both sides but the others weren't. It helped to buy a few of the stones and play with the layout before I ordered enough to actually build the walk.
But you can also use degenerated granite, bricks, gravel and a host of manufactured products to make your garden path.
Reply:Hire a landscape designer.
Reply:It depends upon the shape of the house and the path.Then u can make it appropriate--with colour and where to keep and gardening or the statue or water fall.All depends opon the availibility of money also.
Reply:Much like designing anything, you should sit down and draw up a few different ideas of what you'd envision the end product as being. Think about the area that you've got and what sort of opportunities that there are to use some of the natural landmarks in the spot where you're going to put the garden path. There's likely a natural path already there which you can build upon and develop.
I built one for my parents once using the 12 X 12 flat blocks set in mud. After the mud dries, it's like you've got a solid walkway set in concrete.
Try some of these sites.
.
Good Luck!
Reply:The way we did ours was based on use of the area. At first, we monitored how we moved through the space without any path. Then we started to create simple planting areas and added plants. These planting areas defined the paths in reverse...what wasn't in the area, became the path. Three years later, we have a mini botanical garden in our yard. Complete with paths, lights beautiful flowers and ornaments. And the best thing? We did it all by ourselves and looking at the fruits of our labors is way cool! Enjoy your garden.
rodeo buckle
Any idea where to find a landscape designer to design my home's backyard in Livermore CA? Any references? Any
Looking to have a nice garden with lot of colourful flowers %26amp; design for front %26amp; back yard.
Any idea where to find a landscape designer to design my home's backyard in Livermore CA? Any references? Any
You can ask at Alden Lane Nursery for references.
You can try Kristin's Garden: Kristin Yanker-Hansen (out of Danville).
Any idea where to find a landscape designer to design my home's backyard in Livermore CA? Any references? Any
You can ask at Alden Lane Nursery for references.
You can try Kristin's Garden: Kristin Yanker-Hansen (out of Danville).
How do i make my front garden 'Dog proof'?
At present my front garden is bare, how could i design it, with a hyper Boxer pup in mind. ie what is best to plant and when. Please explain latin names for plants. thank you.
How do i make my front garden 'Dog proof'?
My garden is doggy proof (save for dog)
First step : Fence
Second : avoid any poisonous plants/ fruits /grapes ( some Palm tree have poisonous grapes - Also no coconuts palm trees) / flowers...For example Lantanas are good because they will keep iguanas from eating your other plants but they poisonous for kids and dogs...
Third : No bushes with spines
If you are scared that your dog will destroy your yard : Take a trainer... It is a dog How can he know ?
Reply:fill it with lions and it will be too scared to go in it
Reply:If u want a nice garden i suggest the following. Around ur garden, install a small raised step, no more than 1 inch will suffice.Next, remove ur dogs rear legs and attach a skateboard to the rear of the dog. That way he will be mobile, but cant negotiate the step.Also, heres a latin name for u :want-a-dog-but-dont-want-the-hassles-of...
Reply:Use plants with thorns. If you want flowers run a double or triple high electric fence around the flower garden. Fence the whole yard to keep him in.
Large shrubs in wire cages would work too. You also need a lot of luck.
Reply:Mines? Maybe not, there really are no plants that are dog proof, I have known a dog to chew roses (really well grown thorny roses) to the point of having just a stump left. Only removing the dog from the vicinity of the plant allowed a recovery, it is transformed. The only practical thing you can do is keep the dog away from the garden.
Reply:fence
Reply:A fence plus gorse bushes.
Reply:build a 6 ft high wall around the garden of cinder blocks..
How do i make my front garden 'Dog proof'?
My garden is doggy proof (save for dog)
First step : Fence
Second : avoid any poisonous plants/ fruits /grapes ( some Palm tree have poisonous grapes - Also no coconuts palm trees) / flowers...For example Lantanas are good because they will keep iguanas from eating your other plants but they poisonous for kids and dogs...
Third : No bushes with spines
If you are scared that your dog will destroy your yard : Take a trainer... It is a dog How can he know ?
Reply:fill it with lions and it will be too scared to go in it
Reply:If u want a nice garden i suggest the following. Around ur garden, install a small raised step, no more than 1 inch will suffice.Next, remove ur dogs rear legs and attach a skateboard to the rear of the dog. That way he will be mobile, but cant negotiate the step.Also, heres a latin name for u :want-a-dog-but-dont-want-the-hassles-of...
Reply:Use plants with thorns. If you want flowers run a double or triple high electric fence around the flower garden. Fence the whole yard to keep him in.
Large shrubs in wire cages would work too. You also need a lot of luck.
Reply:Mines? Maybe not, there really are no plants that are dog proof, I have known a dog to chew roses (really well grown thorny roses) to the point of having just a stump left. Only removing the dog from the vicinity of the plant allowed a recovery, it is transformed. The only practical thing you can do is keep the dog away from the garden.
Reply:fence
Reply:A fence plus gorse bushes.
Reply:build a 6 ft high wall around the garden of cinder blocks..
What is the easiest way to dig up dirt for a water garden?
I have been digging a hole in my yard for a water garden that I am going to construct, but the soil is rock hard and in-organic and because of the hole's location in between two huge trees there are thousands of roots from small grass roots to huge 6" thick or bigger roots from the trees. I've been using a hoe to loosen the dirt for shoveling and to cut the roots, but it's becoming an extreme physically enduring project. Are there any other low-budget methods to get a hole dug? Remember, I need to dig a hole to match my measurements and designs for a water garden, not just a big hole.
Note: A water garden, in my case, is a small man-made pond with fish, aquatic plants, frogs, etc.
What is the easiest way to dig up dirt for a water garden?
Either rent , or have some one come in with a machine called a
Bobcat .Its a very small bucket loader , that will do the job in minutes ..I use one all the time in my line of work ( landscape design )
Here's a link to view one ...
http://www.bobcat.com/worksaver/99bc/ws_...
Reply:When I have to dig in dirt like that I leave the hose on and just soak it down till I can dig it out.
The tree roots can be cut with a pair of pruners with long handles for leverage and an ax.
Just keep thinking how beautiful it will be when you are finished and you can do it!
Reply:Your idea sounds great, we did it a couple years back but have you thought out the location? Under two huge trees, ah, huge trees have huge amounts of leave and leaves come down in the fall. You are going to be constantly tring to get them fished out. We put ours on a lawn away from the trees and they still get blown in there. And what about the damage to the trees??? I would rethink location.
Reply:There are some other things you need to consider.
1. The location is not the best under trees because the leaves and limbs could get your pool dirty.
2. Large roots from the trees could gouge your preformed pond and puncture a whole.
Find a better location and soak the soil thourghly a couple of days and you can use a good sharp shovel.
Reply:A ditch witch is defiantly not what you want. Sorry to the other answerer. You could ask around and pay a back hoe about $150.00 an hour ,it should only take an hour. I think this is your best least expensive option. A ditch witch would be more expensive to rent and you would have to operate it. The Back Hoe would probably be cheeper than $150.00 an hour and it wouldnt take so long. I over shot it.
Reply:In this case since your space is so restricted and you're looking for a low cost option, I would suggest renting a "Ditch Witch" from your local hardware store. It can dig a straight line trench to precise measurements and eliminate the need to get around and through the roots. The extraction is going to take elbow grease since the cheapest way to remove the loosened dirt is your own elbow grease and a shovel.
Note: A water garden, in my case, is a small man-made pond with fish, aquatic plants, frogs, etc.
What is the easiest way to dig up dirt for a water garden?
Either rent , or have some one come in with a machine called a
Bobcat .Its a very small bucket loader , that will do the job in minutes ..I use one all the time in my line of work ( landscape design )
Here's a link to view one ...
http://www.bobcat.com/worksaver/99bc/ws_...
Reply:When I have to dig in dirt like that I leave the hose on and just soak it down till I can dig it out.
The tree roots can be cut with a pair of pruners with long handles for leverage and an ax.
Just keep thinking how beautiful it will be when you are finished and you can do it!
Reply:Your idea sounds great, we did it a couple years back but have you thought out the location? Under two huge trees, ah, huge trees have huge amounts of leave and leaves come down in the fall. You are going to be constantly tring to get them fished out. We put ours on a lawn away from the trees and they still get blown in there. And what about the damage to the trees??? I would rethink location.
Reply:There are some other things you need to consider.
1. The location is not the best under trees because the leaves and limbs could get your pool dirty.
2. Large roots from the trees could gouge your preformed pond and puncture a whole.
Find a better location and soak the soil thourghly a couple of days and you can use a good sharp shovel.
Reply:A ditch witch is defiantly not what you want. Sorry to the other answerer. You could ask around and pay a back hoe about $150.00 an hour ,it should only take an hour. I think this is your best least expensive option. A ditch witch would be more expensive to rent and you would have to operate it. The Back Hoe would probably be cheeper than $150.00 an hour and it wouldnt take so long. I over shot it.
Reply:In this case since your space is so restricted and you're looking for a low cost option, I would suggest renting a "Ditch Witch" from your local hardware store. It can dig a straight line trench to precise measurements and eliminate the need to get around and through the roots. The extraction is going to take elbow grease since the cheapest way to remove the loosened dirt is your own elbow grease and a shovel.
Anyone be interested in a "virtual garden you could watch grow & help design?
can we grow marijuana?
Anyone be interested in a "virtual garden you could watch grow %26amp; help design?
depends on if its fun ;]
Reply:i would be interested (as long as its free)
I already have a virtual fish tank.
vacuum deodorizer
Anyone be interested in a "virtual garden you could watch grow %26amp; help design?
depends on if its fun ;]
Reply:i would be interested (as long as its free)
I already have a virtual fish tank.
vacuum deodorizer
What's the best way to start planting a flower garden?
I just bought my first house, and I have no idea where to begin in planting and designing a flower garden. If it helps I live in Virginia where it's a little warmer.
What's the best way to start planting a flower garden?
i found i come up with better ideas AFTER i finish a project. so start in the back of the house, by the time you get to the front, you'll be experienced and know what you like and don't like. choose low maintenance plants that come back every year (perennials or bulbs). choose durable materials like stone or brick, even treated wood will rot eventually and you'll be doing it all over again.
Reply:First take in an overall look of where you would like to see plants take into account your space and the time involved for its maintenance.Being you never gardened before you need to look into low maintenance plants would invest in all seasons bulbs so all year through you can have beauty.How much can you afford or how much do you really want to spend ? There is also a soil check to make sure what you invest in will grow good in your soil some plants do not do well if not grown in a soil with maybe too much lime .So you need to take that into consideration also.Maybe you want mulch or rocks .Is there anything planted now that you would like to keep?perennials are great they come back every year and bigger so take spacing into consideration too.The success of a outstanding garden is to place high plants to the back shorter ones in the front this will create a dramatic effect also look for color schemes pinks with purples look great together use your imagine look in magazines to get ideas look around your neighborhood too I could stay here all day with ideas I LOVE to garden and i love plants congratulations on your new home Hope i helped out a little bit . I am also from VA.In dollar tree they have annual seed packets 10 for a dollar you can also get boxes of wildflower seeds for a buck it has over one hundred seeds if you like wild flowers but in some boxes you will get seeds that come back .Start taking a study of where you want to start your garden so you can watch the sun or shade this will also help okay one more thing how is your drainage some plants will adapt and some wont Remember when you have some ideas draw a plan on paper so you can remember your ideas much luck to you again when you are finished and and your garden takes shape pat yourself on the back gardening also is a great stress relief
Reply:The soil is where it all begins. Do NOT plan your whole garden to begin with. Take your time. You will have a more magical and better growing garden if you make sure your soil is well drained, fertile (with plant based and not animal based waste is preferable if you're in Oakland, since many of our best choices are not compatible with posphorous fertilizers, which are all animal based). I recommend removing everything you do not want to keep. Prepare the soil--often in Oakland that means importing the soil--so that all plants have a nice 18" deep layer of prepared soil. When you get your trucked in or super deeply ammended soil prepared to a depth of 18" (if you amend, you'll need plant based compost--basic mix from Amer. Soil--sand, grit and gravel, all weed seed free) you must THEN cover it with a good 8" layer (minimum) with mulch (some sort of slow rotting mulch is best). This will protect your soil investment while you are taking your time to choose plant selections that are approprate for our climate (first) and for your tastes (second). All your plants should be able to survive without any irrigation after establishment. Plant your plants in the fall to take advantage of winter rains and short cloudy days (gentler on new plants). You're mulch layer may need to be replaced every 2-3 years. If you maintain a shallower layer of mulch, you will have to replace it more often or erosion will take your ammended soil away where you haven't planted with something that will hold the soil. Fortunately, appropriate plant choices number in the thousands here in the Bay Area. You have appropriate selections to choose from for year round bloom, season bloom, cutting flowers, screens, dear and gopher resistant, all colors of leaves, flowers and even bark! Many appropriate choices are not only drought thriving but also fire retardant. We're truly blessed here. Your appropriate plant selections can come from native selections, or selections now grown here originally from Chile, SW and S Australia, Argentina, Mediterranean areas, Middle East, North Africa, tropical cloud forests, wet/dry season tropical high elevation forests. The diversity of our options is breathtaking, in a good way.
Hope this helps. Simple bottom line: Start with the SOIL first...
Reply:Handygirl has some great ideas but also keep in mind the height of the plants.... taller ones in the background and shorter ones in the front. Remember to allow space for the plants to grow and spread! As well as whether the plants are better suited for sun or shade! Gardening is fun and very rewarding too! Just get the plants you like in the colors you like and have fun!!! I made a great water feature out of and old rusted out antique milk can placed sideways on a stack of stepping stones with the end of it over an old water trough. I planted some lantana in the background to hide the hose and some daises in the front to hide the trough! It gets raves on a daily basis! Just do whatever looks good to you... you are the one who has to look at it and you will enjoy it! Have fun!
What's the best way to start planting a flower garden?
i found i come up with better ideas AFTER i finish a project. so start in the back of the house, by the time you get to the front, you'll be experienced and know what you like and don't like. choose low maintenance plants that come back every year (perennials or bulbs). choose durable materials like stone or brick, even treated wood will rot eventually and you'll be doing it all over again.
Reply:First take in an overall look of where you would like to see plants take into account your space and the time involved for its maintenance.Being you never gardened before you need to look into low maintenance plants would invest in all seasons bulbs so all year through you can have beauty.How much can you afford or how much do you really want to spend ? There is also a soil check to make sure what you invest in will grow good in your soil some plants do not do well if not grown in a soil with maybe too much lime .So you need to take that into consideration also.Maybe you want mulch or rocks .Is there anything planted now that you would like to keep?perennials are great they come back every year and bigger so take spacing into consideration too.The success of a outstanding garden is to place high plants to the back shorter ones in the front this will create a dramatic effect also look for color schemes pinks with purples look great together use your imagine look in magazines to get ideas look around your neighborhood too I could stay here all day with ideas I LOVE to garden and i love plants congratulations on your new home Hope i helped out a little bit . I am also from VA.In dollar tree they have annual seed packets 10 for a dollar you can also get boxes of wildflower seeds for a buck it has over one hundred seeds if you like wild flowers but in some boxes you will get seeds that come back .Start taking a study of where you want to start your garden so you can watch the sun or shade this will also help okay one more thing how is your drainage some plants will adapt and some wont Remember when you have some ideas draw a plan on paper so you can remember your ideas much luck to you again when you are finished and and your garden takes shape pat yourself on the back gardening also is a great stress relief
Reply:The soil is where it all begins. Do NOT plan your whole garden to begin with. Take your time. You will have a more magical and better growing garden if you make sure your soil is well drained, fertile (with plant based and not animal based waste is preferable if you're in Oakland, since many of our best choices are not compatible with posphorous fertilizers, which are all animal based). I recommend removing everything you do not want to keep. Prepare the soil--often in Oakland that means importing the soil--so that all plants have a nice 18" deep layer of prepared soil. When you get your trucked in or super deeply ammended soil prepared to a depth of 18" (if you amend, you'll need plant based compost--basic mix from Amer. Soil--sand, grit and gravel, all weed seed free) you must THEN cover it with a good 8" layer (minimum) with mulch (some sort of slow rotting mulch is best). This will protect your soil investment while you are taking your time to choose plant selections that are approprate for our climate (first) and for your tastes (second). All your plants should be able to survive without any irrigation after establishment. Plant your plants in the fall to take advantage of winter rains and short cloudy days (gentler on new plants). You're mulch layer may need to be replaced every 2-3 years. If you maintain a shallower layer of mulch, you will have to replace it more often or erosion will take your ammended soil away where you haven't planted with something that will hold the soil. Fortunately, appropriate plant choices number in the thousands here in the Bay Area. You have appropriate selections to choose from for year round bloom, season bloom, cutting flowers, screens, dear and gopher resistant, all colors of leaves, flowers and even bark! Many appropriate choices are not only drought thriving but also fire retardant. We're truly blessed here. Your appropriate plant selections can come from native selections, or selections now grown here originally from Chile, SW and S Australia, Argentina, Mediterranean areas, Middle East, North Africa, tropical cloud forests, wet/dry season tropical high elevation forests. The diversity of our options is breathtaking, in a good way.
Hope this helps. Simple bottom line: Start with the SOIL first...
Reply:Handygirl has some great ideas but also keep in mind the height of the plants.... taller ones in the background and shorter ones in the front. Remember to allow space for the plants to grow and spread! As well as whether the plants are better suited for sun or shade! Gardening is fun and very rewarding too! Just get the plants you like in the colors you like and have fun!!! I made a great water feature out of and old rusted out antique milk can placed sideways on a stack of stepping stones with the end of it over an old water trough. I planted some lantana in the background to hide the hose and some daises in the front to hide the trough! It gets raves on a daily basis! Just do whatever looks good to you... you are the one who has to look at it and you will enjoy it! Have fun!
Which one is the best, better homes and gardens home design 7 or Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite7
i have the 6th but i want to upgrade to 7 but dont know which one.
what do you guys think?
Which one is the best, better homes and gardens home design 7 or Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite7
suite 7 will likely offer better additions.
k
what do you guys think?
Which one is the best, better homes and gardens home design 7 or Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite7
suite 7 will likely offer better additions.
k
Why did God intelligent design the Garden of Eden to have the Forbidden Fruit of the Power to Know the Differ-
ence Between Right and Wrong tree in the middle?
Why did God intelligent design the Garden of Eden to have the Forbidden Fruit of the Power to Know the Differ-
When people sought to explain the nature of the world they obviously had to come up with a reason for all the bad stuff. They couldn't just have a benevolent god who made everything all lovely and perfect because that's not the way the world is, so they made up the 'forbidden fruit' idea to explain the bad stuff.
Reply:Seems like planned obsolescence or some other form of planing to fail.
I wonder why the 'intelligent' design includes vestigial organs that serve no purpose.
Reply:He didn't. the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which I assume is what you're referring to, is symbolic of the ability to do evil things, similar to the "hot stove" allegory. A parent does not want his child to get burnt, so she tells him: do not touch the hot stove. The child touches the stove and gets burnt. Why's the hot stove there in the first place? You need to cook, right?
Reply:In the middle because knowledge of right from wrong is the center of everything that matters. He knew adam and eve would eat the fruit. He knew it before He formed them. We are all children and must learn the difference before we enter into Eternity.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Reply:to teach obedence
Reply:Better question yet, WHY would he tempt them when, he being all knowing, KNEW they would eat the apple (or whatever it was). Seems like a silly test if you already knew the answer.
Reply:Hell, uh (lol.) I think that God can do whatever He wants. I think that attitude is best in preventing becoming an INMATE of HELLFIRE (lol.)
Pete ("What the hell?")
Reply:because the center of the spirit is our free will, that is the most important this God gave to us. If we where robots and had to walk around loving Jesus all day how would that be special to God? That would not be true love. So he gave us a choice to chose. That was what the fruit symbolized.
Reply:Why even design trees with edible fruit if you don't want people eating their fruit?
Reply:How else do you expect him to ENTRAP humanity so as to get this entire mess started?
Reply:It is metaphoric of course. There is the visual of centeredness
Reply:Garden of eden is said to be paradise. The only reason he made the forbidden truth is so he gave adam and eve wonder and all he wanted was one rule. A person can't just live without no meaning in their life. so adam and eve just had to simply not eat the forbidden fruit. God wanted them to trust him.
Reply:he had to forbid something from them, he had to give them the choice. why was it in the middle? idk maybe god thought it was important it was something the humans didn't have, maybe that was it. but we can't possibly try to understand the intentions of god. i mean we don't have to know everything and thats why we don't.
Reply:He just designed it that way, then He realized something bad had happened as a result, and then He implemented intelligent design instead of just design to avoid future problems.
Why did God intelligent design the Garden of Eden to have the Forbidden Fruit of the Power to Know the Differ-
When people sought to explain the nature of the world they obviously had to come up with a reason for all the bad stuff. They couldn't just have a benevolent god who made everything all lovely and perfect because that's not the way the world is, so they made up the 'forbidden fruit' idea to explain the bad stuff.
Reply:Seems like planned obsolescence or some other form of planing to fail.
I wonder why the 'intelligent' design includes vestigial organs that serve no purpose.
Reply:He didn't. the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which I assume is what you're referring to, is symbolic of the ability to do evil things, similar to the "hot stove" allegory. A parent does not want his child to get burnt, so she tells him: do not touch the hot stove. The child touches the stove and gets burnt. Why's the hot stove there in the first place? You need to cook, right?
Reply:In the middle because knowledge of right from wrong is the center of everything that matters. He knew adam and eve would eat the fruit. He knew it before He formed them. We are all children and must learn the difference before we enter into Eternity.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Reply:to teach obedence
Reply:Better question yet, WHY would he tempt them when, he being all knowing, KNEW they would eat the apple (or whatever it was). Seems like a silly test if you already knew the answer.
Reply:Hell, uh (lol.) I think that God can do whatever He wants. I think that attitude is best in preventing becoming an INMATE of HELLFIRE (lol.)
Pete ("What the hell?")
Reply:because the center of the spirit is our free will, that is the most important this God gave to us. If we where robots and had to walk around loving Jesus all day how would that be special to God? That would not be true love. So he gave us a choice to chose. That was what the fruit symbolized.
Reply:Why even design trees with edible fruit if you don't want people eating their fruit?
Reply:How else do you expect him to ENTRAP humanity so as to get this entire mess started?
Reply:It is metaphoric of course. There is the visual of centeredness
Reply:Garden of eden is said to be paradise. The only reason he made the forbidden truth is so he gave adam and eve wonder and all he wanted was one rule. A person can't just live without no meaning in their life. so adam and eve just had to simply not eat the forbidden fruit. God wanted them to trust him.
Reply:he had to forbid something from them, he had to give them the choice. why was it in the middle? idk maybe god thought it was important it was something the humans didn't have, maybe that was it. but we can't possibly try to understand the intentions of god. i mean we don't have to know everything and thats why we don't.
Reply:He just designed it that way, then He realized something bad had happened as a result, and then He implemented intelligent design instead of just design to avoid future problems.
Designing my garden on-line with my pictures?
I would like to find the right plants for my garden
Designing my garden on-line with my pictures?
It all depends on the weather of place where you live + your personal choice..........Like if you like flowers, vegetables, shrubs, big trees.........etc. !!
Make your mind that what exactly you want and than search on the net accordingly.
Reply:Roses of all kinds.
Reply:i design landscape/interior/exterior for a living so just e-mail me some pics of it and i can give you my best recomadations. i would also need to know what tyupe of theam youd like.
Reply:Tulips and lettuce are best.
natural deodorants
Designing my garden on-line with my pictures?
It all depends on the weather of place where you live + your personal choice..........Like if you like flowers, vegetables, shrubs, big trees.........etc. !!
Make your mind that what exactly you want and than search on the net accordingly.
Reply:Roses of all kinds.
Reply:i design landscape/interior/exterior for a living so just e-mail me some pics of it and i can give you my best recomadations. i would also need to know what tyupe of theam youd like.
Reply:Tulips and lettuce are best.
natural deodorants
I am looking for some BASIC perennial garden designs...shapes etc. Any good references for me?
take a water hose and lay it on the ground in any shape that appeals to you...step back and imagine that shape full of flowers...if you dont like it you can keep moving the hose until you get a shape you like....when you get the shape you like using a brightly colored spray paint go around where the hose is and mark the area then have fun working it then putting your flowers in that spot
this way you can always see the shape before you actually dig or anything...also go inside your house and if it is 2 story go upstairs also and get a good view of where the hose is laying at...view it from different angles to make sure it is what you want and if not keep moving the hose until you get it..different views and an extra person to move the hose can save some work and time until you get your perfect spot
i have done this and it works pretty good but remember to not paint the grass until you have the desired shape
I am looking for some BASIC perennial garden designs...shapes etc. Any good references for me?
Home Depot has leaflet to help, or better yet English Gardens. Happy planting.
Reply:Have you looked on HGTV.com?
Reply:Spring Hill nursery is a good online resource.
They have planting diagrams for a variety of needs.
I'm looking at the perennials, too.
http://springhillnursery.com/product.asp...
Reply:Lowes used to have a garden planner on their gardening site which was really cool. You also might want to check out Paul James on the HGTV site. Also, at the Lowes you can sign up for their gardening club and they send you a magazine with all types of gardening designs, tips and ideas.
this way you can always see the shape before you actually dig or anything...also go inside your house and if it is 2 story go upstairs also and get a good view of where the hose is laying at...view it from different angles to make sure it is what you want and if not keep moving the hose until you get it..different views and an extra person to move the hose can save some work and time until you get your perfect spot
i have done this and it works pretty good but remember to not paint the grass until you have the desired shape
I am looking for some BASIC perennial garden designs...shapes etc. Any good references for me?
Home Depot has leaflet to help, or better yet English Gardens. Happy planting.
Reply:Have you looked on HGTV.com?
Reply:Spring Hill nursery is a good online resource.
They have planting diagrams for a variety of needs.
I'm looking at the perennials, too.
http://springhillnursery.com/product.asp...
Reply:Lowes used to have a garden planner on their gardening site which was really cool. You also might want to check out Paul James on the HGTV site. Also, at the Lowes you can sign up for their gardening club and they send you a magazine with all types of gardening designs, tips and ideas.
Where can I find free design ideas for easy to maintian container gardens?
I'm looking to make an easy to maintain container garden using a large Roman-esque pot. I'm looking for some design ideas that include height in the center with a mound and edging flora. Plant choices that include color and/or fragrance would be excellent as well. This container will sit in a semi-shaded area on the front porch in Southern California.
Where can I find free design ideas for easy to maintian container gardens?
I have used a few of the designs from Better Homes and Gardens.
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/category.jsp?cate...
They are really nice.
Reply:Wow, because you live in So Cal, you have LOTS of choices. A shady location may limit the "fragrance" plants that will grow well. However, since I can't see exactly what your POT looks like, it is hard to say!
Here is what I would suggest: Take your pot to your local plant nursery and have them help you pick out some plants. You can always go to another nursery if you don't like the choices!!
Good Luck!!
Where can I find free design ideas for easy to maintian container gardens?
I have used a few of the designs from Better Homes and Gardens.
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/category.jsp?cate...
They are really nice.
Reply:Wow, because you live in So Cal, you have LOTS of choices. A shady location may limit the "fragrance" plants that will grow well. However, since I can't see exactly what your POT looks like, it is hard to say!
Here is what I would suggest: Take your pot to your local plant nursery and have them help you pick out some plants. You can always go to another nursery if you don't like the choices!!
Good Luck!!
Any DIY garden planner sites online ?
I'm looking for a virtual planner to design a garden that is all done on computer. Any sites i can check out?
Any DIY garden planner sites online ?
Here's a free interactive landscaping website from Better Homes %26amp; Gardens. You'll have register to log on to their website (You don't need to buy anything or subscribe to their magazine).
"Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks -- even a pond."
P.S. You may also have to close their magazine ad. by clicking on the x
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid...
Lowe's Landscape %26amp; Garden planner
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg...
3D Garden planner
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann... (demo)
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann...
BBC Gardening- Virtual Design
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi...
Drag %26amp; drop planner you can use without having to register; click on the blue triangle for hardscapes like fence, brick, pond, etc. %26amp; click each to drag %26amp; drop. Click "next layout' several times for the grid's shape to put your plants %26amp; hardscapes in.
http://www.gardenerspath.com/gardenplann...
DIY On-line garden planner
http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/14...
Good luck! Hope this helps.
Any DIY garden planner sites online ?
Here's a free interactive landscaping website from Better Homes %26amp; Gardens. You'll have register to log on to their website (You don't need to buy anything or subscribe to their magazine).
"Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks -- even a pond."
P.S. You may also have to close their magazine ad. by clicking on the x
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid...
Lowe's Landscape %26amp; Garden planner
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg...
3D Garden planner
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann... (demo)
http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-plann...
BBC Gardening- Virtual Design
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi...
Drag %26amp; drop planner you can use without having to register; click on the blue triangle for hardscapes like fence, brick, pond, etc. %26amp; click each to drag %26amp; drop. Click "next layout' several times for the grid's shape to put your plants %26amp; hardscapes in.
http://www.gardenerspath.com/gardenplann...
DIY On-line garden planner
http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/14...
Good luck! Hope this helps.
I need to design the landscape of a small back yard. Any tips?
I see a lot of books on designing large gardens, but we live in California and have a very small back yard that we'd like to liven up (right now it's just mulch). Is it worth hiring a contractor? Is there good landscape design software we could use to help do it on our own?
I need to design the landscape of a small back yard. Any tips?
HGTV offers an online tutorial.
If you are cramped for space. I'd plant vertically...Tall, skinny shrubs, climbing plants, hang baskets from fence, house, etc. Save all the ground space you have for you to move around in and enjoy. Potted plants offer lots of versatility. If you get tired of where they are or need that space later, just move them.
P.S. Keep the mulch away from the foundation of the house. It give bugs easier access to basements and crawlspaces.
Reply:First level your yard and make sure all fences/boundary plantings are in place then put in any paths, decks, patios or other permanent fixtures or buildings. Next plant trees or any large shrubs. You then will see how much yard you have left to make gardens or lawns. When planting gardens my experience has been trial and error. Meaning your flower gardens are always a work in progress and you should feel free to try new plants. If something doesn't seem to work for you try moving it to another spot. I think as long as you get the "bones" of your garden in place the rest gradually happens over time with beautiful results.
Reply:Software may exist but it may be expensive. In my opinion the best place to start is by choosing the location of your patio. Consider the location of windows and doors on your house, as well as on neighbor homes for privacy. Also consider the orientation of your backyard to the sun. For example, if your backyard faces south, you will probably want to plant trees on the south side to shade the patio and house.
After placing your patio and determining how large you would like it, take note of how much space remains around it. Plant trees to block the sun on the appropriate sides. Be sure they have enough room to grow (choose species with upright growth patterns if it is a really small backyard.) Don't plant tall growing trees underneath powerlines (housedrops). After your trees are planted, fill in gaps with decorative stone, shrubs, and flowering groundcovers. I like to look through magazines to get ideas for species and how to use decorative stone to accent plants.
If it is easier, design and build the backyard one step at a time, over multiple weeks or months. First the patio, then the trees, then some shrubs, then groundcover and rock.
Alternatively, some nurseries will assist in completing a landscape plan, so ask around. Or have a contractor design something for you. You will save a lot of money implementing their design yourself, plus you can make sure things get planted the correct way.
Reply:Before you spend any money on a contractor or software go out to a few nurseries of places like Home Depot to get some ideas from the people that work there about plants and materials. I would try to give you some ideas but in NY we might be using different plants and materials based on what will gro well.
Reply:I've actually been contemplating undertaking a similar project with my wife. We already have a built in patio made of cement (with brick accents) and definitely don't have the money for a contractor to redesign the entire concept. We want to keep costs under 2 grand including plants and other materials.
My wife teaches art in elementary school so she's already been using a diagramming tool called SmartDraw to do some lesson plans and illustrations, but it also does floor plans and landscape designs. It's not 3D, but you can import photos into it so you can make it fairly realistic.
I've found it's been good for designing general layout of different areas and even experimenting with what kind of colors and plant types I want to put where.
To give you an idea, you'll probably end up with stuff that kind of looks like this:
http://www.smartdraw.com/examples/previe...
You can download SmartDraw from http://www.smartdraw.com but it might be pricey if all you're gonna do is landscaping.
An additional tip that I just learned is using curved lines and circles instead of just straight lines helps spaces seem bigger. I think if you have a small space like us, it's tempting to preserve as much of the open area as you can by concentrating plants along the edge in a straight line. But I have a designer friend, who just had their garden done who says I have to try planting things a bit irregularly or in curves and I'll like the results.
shoe care products
I need to design the landscape of a small back yard. Any tips?
HGTV offers an online tutorial.
If you are cramped for space. I'd plant vertically...Tall, skinny shrubs, climbing plants, hang baskets from fence, house, etc. Save all the ground space you have for you to move around in and enjoy. Potted plants offer lots of versatility. If you get tired of where they are or need that space later, just move them.
P.S. Keep the mulch away from the foundation of the house. It give bugs easier access to basements and crawlspaces.
Reply:First level your yard and make sure all fences/boundary plantings are in place then put in any paths, decks, patios or other permanent fixtures or buildings. Next plant trees or any large shrubs. You then will see how much yard you have left to make gardens or lawns. When planting gardens my experience has been trial and error. Meaning your flower gardens are always a work in progress and you should feel free to try new plants. If something doesn't seem to work for you try moving it to another spot. I think as long as you get the "bones" of your garden in place the rest gradually happens over time with beautiful results.
Reply:Software may exist but it may be expensive. In my opinion the best place to start is by choosing the location of your patio. Consider the location of windows and doors on your house, as well as on neighbor homes for privacy. Also consider the orientation of your backyard to the sun. For example, if your backyard faces south, you will probably want to plant trees on the south side to shade the patio and house.
After placing your patio and determining how large you would like it, take note of how much space remains around it. Plant trees to block the sun on the appropriate sides. Be sure they have enough room to grow (choose species with upright growth patterns if it is a really small backyard.) Don't plant tall growing trees underneath powerlines (housedrops). After your trees are planted, fill in gaps with decorative stone, shrubs, and flowering groundcovers. I like to look through magazines to get ideas for species and how to use decorative stone to accent plants.
If it is easier, design and build the backyard one step at a time, over multiple weeks or months. First the patio, then the trees, then some shrubs, then groundcover and rock.
Alternatively, some nurseries will assist in completing a landscape plan, so ask around. Or have a contractor design something for you. You will save a lot of money implementing their design yourself, plus you can make sure things get planted the correct way.
Reply:Before you spend any money on a contractor or software go out to a few nurseries of places like Home Depot to get some ideas from the people that work there about plants and materials. I would try to give you some ideas but in NY we might be using different plants and materials based on what will gro well.
Reply:I've actually been contemplating undertaking a similar project with my wife. We already have a built in patio made of cement (with brick accents) and definitely don't have the money for a contractor to redesign the entire concept. We want to keep costs under 2 grand including plants and other materials.
My wife teaches art in elementary school so she's already been using a diagramming tool called SmartDraw to do some lesson plans and illustrations, but it also does floor plans and landscape designs. It's not 3D, but you can import photos into it so you can make it fairly realistic.
I've found it's been good for designing general layout of different areas and even experimenting with what kind of colors and plant types I want to put where.
To give you an idea, you'll probably end up with stuff that kind of looks like this:
http://www.smartdraw.com/examples/previe...
You can download SmartDraw from http://www.smartdraw.com but it might be pricey if all you're gonna do is landscaping.
An additional tip that I just learned is using curved lines and circles instead of just straight lines helps spaces seem bigger. I think if you have a small space like us, it's tempting to preserve as much of the open area as you can by concentrating plants along the edge in a straight line. But I have a designer friend, who just had their garden done who says I have to try planting things a bit irregularly or in curves and I'll like the results.
shoe care products
Any recomendations for landscape design software??
I'm looking to buy Landscape Design software for DIY projects. I'm reading good things about Better Homes and Garden Home Design Suite and Punch! softwares. Anyone used them or have any recommendations for either, both, or something else?
Any recomendations for landscape design software??
Most of the software available, including Better Homes and Garden Suite, is tricky to use and really leaves you without any real plan.
Honestly, I would recommend using good old fashioned pencil and paper to come up with your initial design. Or perhaps try the free Sketch-up software from Google. Just search for "Google Sketch Up."
Another idea might be to call your local community college and see if one of their design students might put something together for free as a resume' builder or perhaps a class project.
Also, many nurseries will put together a professional design for free if you buy the plants from them.
Hope that helps!
Reply:go to www.wisecustomers.net
Any recomendations for landscape design software??
Most of the software available, including Better Homes and Garden Suite, is tricky to use and really leaves you without any real plan.
Honestly, I would recommend using good old fashioned pencil and paper to come up with your initial design. Or perhaps try the free Sketch-up software from Google. Just search for "Google Sketch Up."
Another idea might be to call your local community college and see if one of their design students might put something together for free as a resume' builder or perhaps a class project.
Also, many nurseries will put together a professional design for free if you buy the plants from them.
Hope that helps!
Reply:go to www.wisecustomers.net
Could you find a web page on uk garden dog kenel designs?
we want to build dog kenels in our back garden could you find any web pages in the UK that have pictures and designs that could give us a few ideas?
Could you find a web page on uk garden dog kenel designs?
heres a site that makes them
http://www.reeveskennels.co.uk/
Reply:www.caninekennels.com
the do modular as well as wooden kennels..and they are the cheapest I've seen. Good luck!
Reply:www.goingtothedogsagain.com %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt; do not click that site its fake
Could you find a web page on uk garden dog kenel designs?
heres a site that makes them
http://www.reeveskennels.co.uk/
Reply:www.caninekennels.com
the do modular as well as wooden kennels..and they are the cheapest I've seen. Good luck!
Reply:www.goingtothedogsagain.com %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt; do not click that site its fake
I need to get good software for designing garden?
I need to get good software for designing garden
I need to get good software for designing garden?
Of course you don't!
I suggest you visit lots of other gardens and sketch what you like - put together some mood boards and distill the ideas - can't draw? of course you can - at least well enough to do this.
Gardens are not like flat pack furniture - they should reflect something of you or whoever you are creating it for - like everything it will be better for a bit of passion!
Reply:If you're in the UK then Garden design PRO is a good one.
It has templates for all the stuff you can actually buy.
http://www.gardendesignpro.co.uk
Hope this helps.
I need to get good software for designing garden?
Of course you don't!
I suggest you visit lots of other gardens and sketch what you like - put together some mood boards and distill the ideas - can't draw? of course you can - at least well enough to do this.
Gardens are not like flat pack furniture - they should reflect something of you or whoever you are creating it for - like everything it will be better for a bit of passion!
Reply:If you're in the UK then Garden design PRO is a good one.
It has templates for all the stuff you can actually buy.
http://www.gardendesignpro.co.uk
Hope this helps.
Small garden where can I get designs?
I have a small space in my backyard that I would like to make into a tropical garden retreat. The size is about 15 x 8 m and rectangular. Does anyone know where i can get some designs from? Any tips on design before get my bob cat in?
Small garden where can I get designs?
Call your local agricultural extension and ask to speak to one of their volunteer master gardeners. Otherwise I would suggest you put in at least a small pond for water sounds and moisture and then we need to know your growing zone! It can be cool to have the edges in the back higher to show off more of the plants - so locate a sitting area and the adjacent pond (2M diamater is fine). Use hibiscus or marsh mallows, elephant ears, a hardy palm for your area, caladiums are always nice, bird of paradise if you can grow one, etc. Palms are good if you can find a hardy one for your area.
Reply:Your best bet is to go to the library. There will be a number of books on tropical gardens with all the how to's and what to plant you could ever need.
colonial shoe buckles
Small garden where can I get designs?
Call your local agricultural extension and ask to speak to one of their volunteer master gardeners. Otherwise I would suggest you put in at least a small pond for water sounds and moisture and then we need to know your growing zone! It can be cool to have the edges in the back higher to show off more of the plants - so locate a sitting area and the adjacent pond (2M diamater is fine). Use hibiscus or marsh mallows, elephant ears, a hardy palm for your area, caladiums are always nice, bird of paradise if you can grow one, etc. Palms are good if you can find a hardy one for your area.
Reply:Your best bet is to go to the library. There will be a number of books on tropical gardens with all the how to's and what to plant you could ever need.
colonial shoe buckles
How can i protect my garden from the rain whilst i dig it?
Im trying to re-design my garden but we are having really bad weather recently and its filled up the trenches i have dug for my new walls with rain. We have really bad drainage in the garden so its not draining away quickly. Can anyone suggest an inexpensive way to cover/protect the garden from the rain which would allow me to continue working in the garden at the same time?
My garden is 5m wide by 9m long (if that makes any difference?) I was going to nail polythene to the fences to cover the garden but i thought that might rip and blow away in the wind?! Any other ideas are most welcome! Thanks
How can i protect my garden from the rain whilst i dig it?
The fact that your trench filled with water should tell you something about your soil and future problems. I can help you with both the drainage and other problems, however, not being G.. I can only help in real time.
Be grateful for this problem. Plants you may have placed would be subject to rot or worse. Now you can correct the problems, at a less expense. Let the rain fall. Put a yardstick or measuring device in the pit/trench and measure how much it lowers or raises per day. Do this for a week and monitor the rainfall during this time.
This will tell us if you need modified soil, gravel, or a simple
irrigation diversion. I'm called cheap ( I prefer frugal) by my wife and people I design for. I am sure I can help, however, I need to know the water levels and the plants you wish to use.
Let the rain fall. A year from now it may or it may fall even more. We will deal with what is as it is an indication of what was and can be. This way we can deal with today and a worse case.
Good Luck. I am at gjgjobs@yahoo.com.
Reply:get yourself some plywood and cover the area you don't want to get wet,and when you are ready to work on that area just remove the plywood
Reply:Many folks, will lay down black plactic over the dirt, and cut tiny incisions in the plastic and grow their garden that way!
This also too, helps to keep from steppin in the mud, Instead you are walking on the plastic and growing a garden at the same time!
To help with drainage, dig a trench on the lowest side of your garden and well past the end of your garden, this will aid in draining the water away from the garden, also, in the non-growing seasons such as in fall, you can amend the soil, and by raising the elevation of your garden by adding horse manure to it, horse manure is by far, the best compost one can add to their garden!
Good luck!
Reply:Well, I think that if your garden has poor drainage, you need to fix that first. Get a soil sample, to see what you need in the way of nutrients and then amend the soil as needed. If you don't improve the drainage your plants will drown.
My garden is 5m wide by 9m long (if that makes any difference?) I was going to nail polythene to the fences to cover the garden but i thought that might rip and blow away in the wind?! Any other ideas are most welcome! Thanks
How can i protect my garden from the rain whilst i dig it?
The fact that your trench filled with water should tell you something about your soil and future problems. I can help you with both the drainage and other problems, however, not being G.. I can only help in real time.
Be grateful for this problem. Plants you may have placed would be subject to rot or worse. Now you can correct the problems, at a less expense. Let the rain fall. Put a yardstick or measuring device in the pit/trench and measure how much it lowers or raises per day. Do this for a week and monitor the rainfall during this time.
This will tell us if you need modified soil, gravel, or a simple
irrigation diversion. I'm called cheap ( I prefer frugal) by my wife and people I design for. I am sure I can help, however, I need to know the water levels and the plants you wish to use.
Let the rain fall. A year from now it may or it may fall even more. We will deal with what is as it is an indication of what was and can be. This way we can deal with today and a worse case.
Good Luck. I am at gjgjobs@yahoo.com.
Reply:get yourself some plywood and cover the area you don't want to get wet,and when you are ready to work on that area just remove the plywood
Reply:Many folks, will lay down black plactic over the dirt, and cut tiny incisions in the plastic and grow their garden that way!
This also too, helps to keep from steppin in the mud, Instead you are walking on the plastic and growing a garden at the same time!
To help with drainage, dig a trench on the lowest side of your garden and well past the end of your garden, this will aid in draining the water away from the garden, also, in the non-growing seasons such as in fall, you can amend the soil, and by raising the elevation of your garden by adding horse manure to it, horse manure is by far, the best compost one can add to their garden!
Good luck!
Reply:Well, I think that if your garden has poor drainage, you need to fix that first. Get a soil sample, to see what you need in the way of nutrients and then amend the soil as needed. If you don't improve the drainage your plants will drown.
Can house/garden design help prevent bush fires spreading?
Yes, you most certainly can. In Idaho, we had the biggest fires this year (in the U.S.) and they were all around where I live. (The California fires are probably going to top Idaho now)
Keeping 30-50 feet of well watered lawn, gravel, rock garden, or juicy native plants (like cactus) will REALLY cut down on the danger to your home.
Do not build at the top of a hill covered with trees. When the trees go, there will be no saving your house, since all the heat and embers will rise.
Put an appropriate roof on your house and barns. Metal, or the tile roofs. Tile is very expensive, metal roofs are quiet affordable.
Concider the siding on your house. We have steel and brick. Our next home will be stuco. All are fairly fire resistant.
We were actually very worried this year. We have a new neighbor to the west of us. They moved here from Florida, the land of swamps and rampent growth. I'm in Idaho, high mountain desert. They didn't water with their built in sprinkler system. Their grass is totally dead, although mowed, it's just waiting for a spark. They have large wood porches, front and back, along with wood siding. Their house would go up in an instant.
Keep bushes back from your house. Install covered sofits (the exposed wood under the eves of your house). Ours are covered in steel.
Be aware, and alert, when working with tools that throw sparks. Have a hose right there, already turned on, with a nozzle on the end, so you can turn it on in an instant. If a spark hits the dry grass, and there is a breeze, you don't have time to run and turn on the hose. You quiet litteraly have only 2-5 seconds to get the flames under control with wind and dry conditions.
Don't put up solid wood fences. Gravel around your propane tank, NO plantings against it.
Find out about a plant, before you plant it on your property. Some are very fire resistant. Others have explosive fireball sap in them.
Around here, it's often the farmers who stop the fires. You will see 6-12 HUGE tractors, blowing smoke out their stacks as they drag HUGE plows deep into the earth. When the farmers get together, they can plow up 1/2 mile wide stretches of land in minutes. Even in the wind, it's hard for the embers to survive accross a 1/2 mile of bare dirt.
Be reasonable. If the fire is coming for your house, and someone wants to plow up your field, or yard as a fire break, LET THEM, even if it destroys thousands of dollars worth of landscaping.
Keep weeds cut back, or grazed off (goats do that better than any other critter), and keep dead brush from acumulating.
Do not allow too many pine needles to pile up under your evergreen trees. Be agressive about trimming dead branches.
If you have a smoker in your family, designate certain areas ONLY outside they can smoke....while standing on the gravel of a driveway is a good spot. If they are anywhere else with a lit cigarette assume they are on fire, and put them out with a hose, or fire extinguisher. Having barns, horses, and hay, I am deadly serrious about that one, and have had some very shocked people when I have "put them out" in the barn. I do NOT stand for flames or embers of any kind in my barns.
If you live in a fire area, keep a fire extinguisher in your car at all times. Cars cause a lot of fires, and sometimes very small roadside fires can be put out with a fire extinguisher, before it gets totally out of hand.
The exterior of your house should have little, to no exposed wood. That goes for the doors for people and garage as well.
In fire prone CA there are companies that specialize in designing landscaping and houses with fire prevention in mind. Take advantage of such resources.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
Can house/garden design help prevent bush fires spreading?
I lived in southern California in the early 90's and went through one of these fires. I was spared, but the current descriptions coming out of there don't do it justice. The smells of burning asphalt, cattle, and shrubgrass will stay with me forever.
After that fire, there was much publicity about using your landscaping to give you an edge in the next fire. I'm placing a link covering some fire resistant plants below. There were, of course, other logical items such as clearing brush, tree limbs, etc.
From the videos I've seen of the fire, it appears that no one has learned from past mistakes. Brush, pine tress, conifer shrubs, are all pretty, but make good kindling!
Reply:House and garden design may be used to build a protective fire break around your home but it will in no way affect the frequency of brush fires which are determined by prevailiing weather conditions. You can't stop drought or lightning by building a firebreak around your property.
Better forest management is needed to prevent forest fires spreading, i.e. fire breaks, access roads, proper fire risk assessment and having the necessary equipment available to suppress the fires before they get out of hand. Begging for fire bombers when the fire is already established and destroying vast amounts of property is a sign of bad management. Awnold isn't doing a very good job it seems.
Reply:Absolutely! My in-laws lost their house in the Laguna Beach fires of 93, along with all their neighbors. Except for one. Most houses in Laguna at the time were old and mostly wood, but this one house was stucco with a tile roof. This homeowner had, also, surrounded his house with ice-plant and kept the dry brush cut back as much as possible. The firefighters said it was this combination that spared his home even though all his neighbors lost theirs. The fire up in Stevenson Ranch seriously threatened home there, but the builders had made sure the area around the tract had a green belt and fire breaks. The same with Foothill Ranch. None of the homes there burned, even though the fires were dangerously close.
Reply:Responsible house and garden design are critical in even avoiding bush fire intensity.
Sustainability is the word used around the world which means doing today and not impacting future generations. All the laws are there but opinions varied because the information couldn't be qualified.
Homes are designed with temperature and warnings about solar radiation. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... and see the solar impact outside the calculators used for that design. Buildings are generating extreme heat just short of boiling temperature and we are treating the symptoms with ozone depletion, gigawatts of wasted electrical generation , massive GHG emissions while not addressing the heat.
It may not seem like a big deal but look at California today, drier, hydrological changes and the place is burning. Today, California buildings are being impacted by UV and solar gain. The buildings are generating heat atmospherically and building towards the next problem.
Go to the link above and see what humbled me as a professional. Gardens and functional landscaping eliminated the solar impact on buildings substantially. Proper landscaping alone can eliminate any need for air conditioning with zero emissions.
Air conditioning is a nice name for sales, it is refrigeration. During heat waves, using air conditioning is the same application as leaving the fridge door open. You don't need air conditioning you need the home and garden areas to be the compliment they were meant to be.
The home and the garden are a very scientific compliment to each area, we just couldn't see it.
Reply:all of these are very good suggestions. most of them we used in florida. plus we drilled a well with a small engine for power. we ran a pipe up the to the side of the house to the roof,along the full length of the roof we ran a 1/2" with holes drill in it. it came in handy 1997 when we had all those fires along the northern east coast. the fire came near the house,we turn on the water just enough to cover the roof with a steady stream of water.
Reply:you can plow fire breaks around your garden and have a wide border of fire proof plants such as Agapanthis,if you add a moat ,you may be safe.
Don`t forget a lot of the fire is passed by the wind in the air so each will have to be quit wide.
Keeping 30-50 feet of well watered lawn, gravel, rock garden, or juicy native plants (like cactus) will REALLY cut down on the danger to your home.
Do not build at the top of a hill covered with trees. When the trees go, there will be no saving your house, since all the heat and embers will rise.
Put an appropriate roof on your house and barns. Metal, or the tile roofs. Tile is very expensive, metal roofs are quiet affordable.
Concider the siding on your house. We have steel and brick. Our next home will be stuco. All are fairly fire resistant.
We were actually very worried this year. We have a new neighbor to the west of us. They moved here from Florida, the land of swamps and rampent growth. I'm in Idaho, high mountain desert. They didn't water with their built in sprinkler system. Their grass is totally dead, although mowed, it's just waiting for a spark. They have large wood porches, front and back, along with wood siding. Their house would go up in an instant.
Keep bushes back from your house. Install covered sofits (the exposed wood under the eves of your house). Ours are covered in steel.
Be aware, and alert, when working with tools that throw sparks. Have a hose right there, already turned on, with a nozzle on the end, so you can turn it on in an instant. If a spark hits the dry grass, and there is a breeze, you don't have time to run and turn on the hose. You quiet litteraly have only 2-5 seconds to get the flames under control with wind and dry conditions.
Don't put up solid wood fences. Gravel around your propane tank, NO plantings against it.
Find out about a plant, before you plant it on your property. Some are very fire resistant. Others have explosive fireball sap in them.
Around here, it's often the farmers who stop the fires. You will see 6-12 HUGE tractors, blowing smoke out their stacks as they drag HUGE plows deep into the earth. When the farmers get together, they can plow up 1/2 mile wide stretches of land in minutes. Even in the wind, it's hard for the embers to survive accross a 1/2 mile of bare dirt.
Be reasonable. If the fire is coming for your house, and someone wants to plow up your field, or yard as a fire break, LET THEM, even if it destroys thousands of dollars worth of landscaping.
Keep weeds cut back, or grazed off (goats do that better than any other critter), and keep dead brush from acumulating.
Do not allow too many pine needles to pile up under your evergreen trees. Be agressive about trimming dead branches.
If you have a smoker in your family, designate certain areas ONLY outside they can smoke....while standing on the gravel of a driveway is a good spot. If they are anywhere else with a lit cigarette assume they are on fire, and put them out with a hose, or fire extinguisher. Having barns, horses, and hay, I am deadly serrious about that one, and have had some very shocked people when I have "put them out" in the barn. I do NOT stand for flames or embers of any kind in my barns.
If you live in a fire area, keep a fire extinguisher in your car at all times. Cars cause a lot of fires, and sometimes very small roadside fires can be put out with a fire extinguisher, before it gets totally out of hand.
The exterior of your house should have little, to no exposed wood. That goes for the doors for people and garage as well.
In fire prone CA there are companies that specialize in designing landscaping and houses with fire prevention in mind. Take advantage of such resources.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
Can house/garden design help prevent bush fires spreading?
I lived in southern California in the early 90's and went through one of these fires. I was spared, but the current descriptions coming out of there don't do it justice. The smells of burning asphalt, cattle, and shrubgrass will stay with me forever.
After that fire, there was much publicity about using your landscaping to give you an edge in the next fire. I'm placing a link covering some fire resistant plants below. There were, of course, other logical items such as clearing brush, tree limbs, etc.
From the videos I've seen of the fire, it appears that no one has learned from past mistakes. Brush, pine tress, conifer shrubs, are all pretty, but make good kindling!
Reply:House and garden design may be used to build a protective fire break around your home but it will in no way affect the frequency of brush fires which are determined by prevailiing weather conditions. You can't stop drought or lightning by building a firebreak around your property.
Better forest management is needed to prevent forest fires spreading, i.e. fire breaks, access roads, proper fire risk assessment and having the necessary equipment available to suppress the fires before they get out of hand. Begging for fire bombers when the fire is already established and destroying vast amounts of property is a sign of bad management. Awnold isn't doing a very good job it seems.
Reply:Absolutely! My in-laws lost their house in the Laguna Beach fires of 93, along with all their neighbors. Except for one. Most houses in Laguna at the time were old and mostly wood, but this one house was stucco with a tile roof. This homeowner had, also, surrounded his house with ice-plant and kept the dry brush cut back as much as possible. The firefighters said it was this combination that spared his home even though all his neighbors lost theirs. The fire up in Stevenson Ranch seriously threatened home there, but the builders had made sure the area around the tract had a green belt and fire breaks. The same with Foothill Ranch. None of the homes there burned, even though the fires were dangerously close.
Reply:Responsible house and garden design are critical in even avoiding bush fire intensity.
Sustainability is the word used around the world which means doing today and not impacting future generations. All the laws are there but opinions varied because the information couldn't be qualified.
Homes are designed with temperature and warnings about solar radiation. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h... and see the solar impact outside the calculators used for that design. Buildings are generating extreme heat just short of boiling temperature and we are treating the symptoms with ozone depletion, gigawatts of wasted electrical generation , massive GHG emissions while not addressing the heat.
It may not seem like a big deal but look at California today, drier, hydrological changes and the place is burning. Today, California buildings are being impacted by UV and solar gain. The buildings are generating heat atmospherically and building towards the next problem.
Go to the link above and see what humbled me as a professional. Gardens and functional landscaping eliminated the solar impact on buildings substantially. Proper landscaping alone can eliminate any need for air conditioning with zero emissions.
Air conditioning is a nice name for sales, it is refrigeration. During heat waves, using air conditioning is the same application as leaving the fridge door open. You don't need air conditioning you need the home and garden areas to be the compliment they were meant to be.
The home and the garden are a very scientific compliment to each area, we just couldn't see it.
Reply:all of these are very good suggestions. most of them we used in florida. plus we drilled a well with a small engine for power. we ran a pipe up the to the side of the house to the roof,along the full length of the roof we ran a 1/2" with holes drill in it. it came in handy 1997 when we had all those fires along the northern east coast. the fire came near the house,we turn on the water just enough to cover the roof with a steady stream of water.
Reply:you can plow fire breaks around your garden and have a wide border of fire proof plants such as Agapanthis,if you add a moat ,you may be safe.
Don`t forget a lot of the fire is passed by the wind in the air so each will have to be quit wide.
Can anyone tell me a site were i can design a garden for free?
Look on google, or you could look on yahoo or ask jeeves, but google is the best by far.
Another option is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/
That has some really funky styles, good luck!
Can anyone tell me a site were i can design a garden for free?
Yes please my garden really needs designing
Reply:try www.the-landscape-design-site.com or www.gardendesigns.com or www.blossomswap.com/gardenplans
Another option is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/
That has some really funky styles, good luck!
Can anyone tell me a site were i can design a garden for free?
Yes please my garden really needs designing
Reply:try www.the-landscape-design-site.com or www.gardendesigns.com or www.blossomswap.com/gardenplans
I am doing a course for gardendesigner , I have just started but I need to know what a Aha garden looks like?
I need some more information about aha gardens , I know these were gardens designed to make the garden look wider and ?bigger but I can''t find a specific photo or picture as an example , who can help me ??
I am doing a course for gardendesigner , I have just started but I need to know what a Aha garden looks like?
I think you mean a ha-ha, originally called Ha! Ha!s because of the surprise element involved in falling over the wall you can't see into the ditch below, designed to keep the cattle and deer from the house front.
These were originally in use across Italy and France in the seventeenth century, but more for practical reasons than design features. Only in England did they become a status symbol, probably because we are a small country and to make your estate look bigger required a bit more ingenuity. The debate around them in the middle and later eighteenth century is very interesting. I suggest, if you want to see a good example, you visit Stowe (NT) in Buckinghamshire which you ought to visit anyway as it contains features from virtually all the garden designers of the 1800s, Batty Langley, Bridgeman, Kent and 'Capability' Brown. Chatsworth also has a ha-ha, and there is a very nice, small-ish, example at Blickling in Norfolk, I think. Most period gardens have some remnants of the ha-ha. Stowe is the largest, I think. Petworth is one of the most complete of Brown's designs, and Blenheim, of course, is an important site.
Read: Stephen Switzer, one of the first garden writers to make economies of scale possible - running a big estate was expensive.
Humphry Repton, writing at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries. He was influential, although very few of his designs remain: one of his debating points is, in fact, the ha-ha, which by 1790 was beginning to be more of a problem than a virtue - estates were smaller, money tighter, and there was a return to a desire for the more formal garden, terraces, ballustrades and flower-beds near the house, so a fence would do as well in Repton's mind. The other thing he pointed out was the peculiarity of a garden looking as though it was full of cows, when, if you have pretty plantings near your windows you plainly don't want a lot of cows there as well ...
Brown didn't write much about garden designs. He was a pragmatic and tireless professional who had an idea and wanted to carry it out - some thought to ridiculous levels - moving villages, and so forth, but it's most likely that you'll find good examples of the ha-ha in his designs.
John Claudius Loudon published all Repton's writings in one volume in 1840, available now in the 'Aesthetics and the Picturesque, 1795-1840' series, ed. Gavin Budge (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001). The other large series to look at is 'The English Landscape Garden' (29 volumes at last count), ed. John Dixon Hunt (New York/London: Garland, 1982). Also, have a read of John Dixon Hunt's 'The Figure in the Landscape', which discusses the relationship of painting to European gardens - one reason the ha- ha was liked, because it made your estate look more like the French and Italian paintings so popular in England at the end of the seventeenth century (status again - it meant you'd travelled if you knew what these things looked like).
A comprehensive and useful, but a little opinionated, study of garden design is by Charles Quest-Ritson; 'The English Garden: A Social History' (Penguin, 2003).
Hope this helps, but get out there - it's never the same in a picture!
Reply:My understanding is that an aha is a fence that is hidden from view by placing it in the bottom of a ditch
Reply:Do you mean a "Ha Ha!!!!"
If so a ha-ha was a wall or fence erected in the bottom of an excavated trench or ditch.
Its purpose was to provide an uninterrupted view of the landscape, whilst at the same time providing a barrier to animals such as sheep and cattle from straying onto the lawns and gardens of the big house.
I suggest you research the works of two specific Landscape Gardeners of the 18/19th Centuries - 1) Lancelot "Capability" Brown [1716 to 1783] and Sir Joseph Paxton [1801 to 1865].
They were both, pioneers in landscape design and construction.
In particular Joe Paxton's works at Chatsworth House [Derbyshire England]. and the Crystal Palace a bulding of glass and iron designed and constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Reply:www.i'malanpartridge.com
shoe lasts components
I am doing a course for gardendesigner , I have just started but I need to know what a Aha garden looks like?
I think you mean a ha-ha, originally called Ha! Ha!s because of the surprise element involved in falling over the wall you can't see into the ditch below, designed to keep the cattle and deer from the house front.
These were originally in use across Italy and France in the seventeenth century, but more for practical reasons than design features. Only in England did they become a status symbol, probably because we are a small country and to make your estate look bigger required a bit more ingenuity. The debate around them in the middle and later eighteenth century is very interesting. I suggest, if you want to see a good example, you visit Stowe (NT) in Buckinghamshire which you ought to visit anyway as it contains features from virtually all the garden designers of the 1800s, Batty Langley, Bridgeman, Kent and 'Capability' Brown. Chatsworth also has a ha-ha, and there is a very nice, small-ish, example at Blickling in Norfolk, I think. Most period gardens have some remnants of the ha-ha. Stowe is the largest, I think. Petworth is one of the most complete of Brown's designs, and Blenheim, of course, is an important site.
Read: Stephen Switzer, one of the first garden writers to make economies of scale possible - running a big estate was expensive.
Humphry Repton, writing at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries. He was influential, although very few of his designs remain: one of his debating points is, in fact, the ha-ha, which by 1790 was beginning to be more of a problem than a virtue - estates were smaller, money tighter, and there was a return to a desire for the more formal garden, terraces, ballustrades and flower-beds near the house, so a fence would do as well in Repton's mind. The other thing he pointed out was the peculiarity of a garden looking as though it was full of cows, when, if you have pretty plantings near your windows you plainly don't want a lot of cows there as well ...
Brown didn't write much about garden designs. He was a pragmatic and tireless professional who had an idea and wanted to carry it out - some thought to ridiculous levels - moving villages, and so forth, but it's most likely that you'll find good examples of the ha-ha in his designs.
John Claudius Loudon published all Repton's writings in one volume in 1840, available now in the 'Aesthetics and the Picturesque, 1795-1840' series, ed. Gavin Budge (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001). The other large series to look at is 'The English Landscape Garden' (29 volumes at last count), ed. John Dixon Hunt (New York/London: Garland, 1982). Also, have a read of John Dixon Hunt's 'The Figure in the Landscape', which discusses the relationship of painting to European gardens - one reason the ha- ha was liked, because it made your estate look more like the French and Italian paintings so popular in England at the end of the seventeenth century (status again - it meant you'd travelled if you knew what these things looked like).
A comprehensive and useful, but a little opinionated, study of garden design is by Charles Quest-Ritson; 'The English Garden: A Social History' (Penguin, 2003).
Hope this helps, but get out there - it's never the same in a picture!
Reply:My understanding is that an aha is a fence that is hidden from view by placing it in the bottom of a ditch
Reply:Do you mean a "Ha Ha!!!!"
If so a ha-ha was a wall or fence erected in the bottom of an excavated trench or ditch.
Its purpose was to provide an uninterrupted view of the landscape, whilst at the same time providing a barrier to animals such as sheep and cattle from straying onto the lawns and gardens of the big house.
I suggest you research the works of two specific Landscape Gardeners of the 18/19th Centuries - 1) Lancelot "Capability" Brown [1716 to 1783] and Sir Joseph Paxton [1801 to 1865].
They were both, pioneers in landscape design and construction.
In particular Joe Paxton's works at Chatsworth House [Derbyshire England]. and the Crystal Palace a bulding of glass and iron designed and constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Reply:www.i'malanpartridge.com
shoe lasts components
I am trying to find out value of LiLing Fine China - Imperial Garden design-for set of dishes.?
It appears that the question period has expired. If you have received an answer that meets your needs, please choose a 'best answer.'
Regards.
I am trying to find out value of LiLing Fine China - Imperial Garden design-for set of dishes.?
Replacements Lt. is my favorite place to research/buy china patterns and flatware. They will even send you email updates when new pieces of your pattern become available. http://www.replacements.com/webquote/LIL...
It appears that a 10 1/2" dinner plate in your pattern is selling for $23.99.
You can also call them at 1-800-737-5223 and ask them specificly about the price of your set of dishes. A set is considered to be the number of pieces of the most complete place settings. Example: If you have 7 dinner plates, 5 luncheon/salad plates, 5 cups, and 4 saucers, then your most complete setting would be for 4.
Another place to research the going prices of your china would be on www.ebay.com and do a search of Liling china.
Regards.
I am trying to find out value of LiLing Fine China - Imperial Garden design-for set of dishes.?
Replacements Lt. is my favorite place to research/buy china patterns and flatware. They will even send you email updates when new pieces of your pattern become available. http://www.replacements.com/webquote/LIL...
It appears that a 10 1/2" dinner plate in your pattern is selling for $23.99.
You can also call them at 1-800-737-5223 and ask them specificly about the price of your set of dishes. A set is considered to be the number of pieces of the most complete place settings. Example: If you have 7 dinner plates, 5 luncheon/salad plates, 5 cups, and 4 saucers, then your most complete setting would be for 4.
Another place to research the going prices of your china would be on www.ebay.com and do a search of Liling china.
Helen oats garden design?
Here you go:
http://www.192.com/search/details.cfm?ac...
She is based in Thirsk North Yorkshire:
HELEN OATES
10 MANFIELDS TERRACE
CARLTON MINIOTT THIRSK NORTH YORKSHIRE
YO7 4NE
01845 526 252
Information from Thomson Directories Thomson Classification
*
Trading Name:
Helen Oates
*
Published Name:
Oates Helen
*
Line of Business (LOB):
Garden Design
*
Std. Industrial Classification (SIC):
0141 Agricultural service activities
*
Number of Employees:
1 (24/01/2005)
*
Company Executive:
Ms H Oates (Proprietor)
http://www.192.com/search/details.cfm?ac...
She is based in Thirsk North Yorkshire:
HELEN OATES
10 MANFIELDS TERRACE
CARLTON MINIOTT THIRSK NORTH YORKSHIRE
YO7 4NE
01845 526 252
Information from Thomson Directories Thomson Classification
*
Trading Name:
Helen Oates
*
Published Name:
Oates Helen
*
Line of Business (LOB):
Garden Design
*
Std. Industrial Classification (SIC):
0141 Agricultural service activities
*
Number of Employees:
1 (24/01/2005)
*
Company Executive:
Ms H Oates (Proprietor)
Does anyone have links to well designed garden ideas?
I'm looking for links to good photographs, or even video links. I'm NOT interested in flower, or the extremely fancy herb gardens.
I'm interested in really practicle gardens that produce fruits, vegtables, berries, and possibly small orchards.
Living and working on my own farm leaves me little to no time to tour the gardens of other people. I'm always looking for good ideas I can incorperate into my own gardens and orchard.
So links with pictures, good drawings, or videos would be very much appreciated!
Does anyone have links to well designed garden ideas?
Just go to the site listed below, they have really great set ups...
I also like the idea of orchards kind of surrounding the garden, it sounds great to me....
My mom just made a bunch of raised beds, and we are going to have a sort of 'island' of berries in on, then in the ones around it will mostly be used for vegtables (we go through more veggies then berries, but whatever is the perfect ratio for you if great!)
I'm interested in really practicle gardens that produce fruits, vegtables, berries, and possibly small orchards.
Living and working on my own farm leaves me little to no time to tour the gardens of other people. I'm always looking for good ideas I can incorperate into my own gardens and orchard.
So links with pictures, good drawings, or videos would be very much appreciated!
Does anyone have links to well designed garden ideas?
Just go to the site listed below, they have really great set ups...
I also like the idea of orchards kind of surrounding the garden, it sounds great to me....
My mom just made a bunch of raised beds, and we are going to have a sort of 'island' of berries in on, then in the ones around it will mostly be used for vegtables (we go through more veggies then berries, but whatever is the perfect ratio for you if great!)
Sheila footstool Garden Design?
in my opinion it's better to buy cushion hassock for you garden not Sheila footstool for garden
sweating
sweating
Does any1 know any good 3D garden design programmes?
Broderbund software corp. used to offer a good one. It even allowed you to see up to five years of growth. Check on Ebay for 3D landscape design.
Does any1 know any good 3D garden design programmes?
hi tommy walsh has a good cd i got it free with easy pc mag but i am sure if you do a google search you should be able to find something good luck xxx
Reply:I've never heard of this, but it sounds cool. could you let me know when you find out?
Reply:What you need is Geoff Hamilton's 3D Garden Designer version 3. Here's a link -
http://www.gspsoftware.co.uk/index.php?p...
Does any1 know any good 3D garden design programmes?
hi tommy walsh has a good cd i got it free with easy pc mag but i am sure if you do a google search you should be able to find something good luck xxx
Reply:I've never heard of this, but it sounds cool. could you let me know when you find out?
Reply:What you need is Geoff Hamilton's 3D Garden Designer version 3. Here's a link -
http://www.gspsoftware.co.uk/index.php?p...
Give me your opinion of my css zen garden design?
please !! look to this design and give me your opinion:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=htt...
I hope that they accept my design in [ccszengarden.com].
Give me your opinion of my css zen garden design?
I like it alot! I like the simplicity and the colors. Don't change it! It loads quickly too!
Reply:OOO!!! That's really good, I just think you should mix a little bit more color in though, but that's really gooD! Make sure it's a color that works with the one you have, if you do it.
=Dgood luck!=D
Reply:hey buddy that is pretty sharp.
i wouldnt change a thing
Reply:Nice simple design.
I really dislike when plain text is given a :hover state. :hover should only be used when there's a possible user action.
Also, for the links to the right, the purple does not have enough contrast from the :hover state black. People with bad vision would not be able to see the difference; you could add a border or underline to the text to help that.
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=htt...
I hope that they accept my design in [ccszengarden.com].
Give me your opinion of my css zen garden design?
I like it alot! I like the simplicity and the colors. Don't change it! It loads quickly too!
Reply:OOO!!! That's really good, I just think you should mix a little bit more color in though, but that's really gooD! Make sure it's a color that works with the one you have, if you do it.
=Dgood luck!=D
Reply:hey buddy that is pretty sharp.
i wouldnt change a thing
Reply:Nice simple design.
I really dislike when plain text is given a :hover state. :hover should only be used when there's a possible user action.
Also, for the links to the right, the purple does not have enough contrast from the :hover state black. People with bad vision would not be able to see the difference; you could add a border or underline to the text to help that.
Garden design inspiration and plants recommendations?
we have space to fill with some interesting plants (about 1.5m x 2.5m) by a south facing wall (sunny place, soil quality probably not very good). i'd like to plant some interesting and hardy grasses and shrubs and maybe some climbers. i want to create an interesting feature in our little garden with nice contrasting colours and textures. the plants should ideally be decorative all year round and shouldn't need watering.
can you recommend any plants or a good website that features photos and descriptions or even some ideas how to group the plants to get some nice effects? most websites i've seen give only lists of plants (no good if you don't know them).
any tips will be appreciated!
Garden design inspiration and plants recommendations?
For climbers, I go for either:
Roses as these can flower for quite a time during the summer.
Passion flower, these come in all different colours and in the autumn have lovely orange fruits [don't eat them!]
Clematis, these too come in all sorts of different flowers and colours.
Put black and/or green bamboo in tubs [ this spreads quite quickly] as an alternative to grasses.
And for a mass of colour all year round why not plant bulbs that flower in the different seasons. Bulbs you can leave in the ground to naturalise, so it's less work for you. Why not add a water feature or a sundial too.
Happy gardening
Reply:i would put daizy's,
they come in all colors.
butterfly bushes, white
and purple. i would buy
wood chips and lay them around my flowers
so i don't have to weed that often. the chips would absorb water for
your plants.
hope you like my
little garden.
laney
Reply:agaves are perfect for you.
if you live in an area with snow Parrys agave is the most hardy one for you cold hardy to -20 degrees F
here is a photo of one
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showima...
needs no water at all and is attractive all year.
another thing to try is palm trees. if you live in a cold enviorment with lots of snow the needle palm is best. this is also cold hardy to-20 F and grows well in all 50 of the us states including southern alaska. they need no protection at
-10 degrees and doesnt even get damaged till well below 0 degrees F.
some climbers
trumpet vine.
doesnt look good all year, but puts out quite a show in the summer. it is a perrenial as long as you dont live where it is colder than -5 degrees F. it will die to the groung and come up in the spring. needs some water though
Reply:Be sure to test your soil first or you'll risk all the hard work. Tasha Tudor has really good designs with all the items you listed. Do you like the English Cottage Garden look? Even grasses need watering to establish, and if it doesn't rain.
PLEASE ENTER WHAT ZONE YOU'RE IN, and any microclimates, soil type, etc. If you don't know these, ask that question too.
Reply:Check out the website below for Dutch Gardens. You can give it search criteria such as sun, water, soil, etc and even what color flowers you want and it will give you matches.
Reply:Neighbourhood yards and your local garden centre are probably your best bet for what grows well in your area and how it will look.
Good Growing :)
can you recommend any plants or a good website that features photos and descriptions or even some ideas how to group the plants to get some nice effects? most websites i've seen give only lists of plants (no good if you don't know them).
any tips will be appreciated!
Garden design inspiration and plants recommendations?
For climbers, I go for either:
Roses as these can flower for quite a time during the summer.
Passion flower, these come in all different colours and in the autumn have lovely orange fruits [don't eat them!]
Clematis, these too come in all sorts of different flowers and colours.
Put black and/or green bamboo in tubs [ this spreads quite quickly] as an alternative to grasses.
And for a mass of colour all year round why not plant bulbs that flower in the different seasons. Bulbs you can leave in the ground to naturalise, so it's less work for you. Why not add a water feature or a sundial too.
Happy gardening
Reply:i would put daizy's,
they come in all colors.
butterfly bushes, white
and purple. i would buy
wood chips and lay them around my flowers
so i don't have to weed that often. the chips would absorb water for
your plants.
hope you like my
little garden.
laney
Reply:agaves are perfect for you.
if you live in an area with snow Parrys agave is the most hardy one for you cold hardy to -20 degrees F
here is a photo of one
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showima...
needs no water at all and is attractive all year.
another thing to try is palm trees. if you live in a cold enviorment with lots of snow the needle palm is best. this is also cold hardy to-20 F and grows well in all 50 of the us states including southern alaska. they need no protection at
-10 degrees and doesnt even get damaged till well below 0 degrees F.
some climbers
trumpet vine.
doesnt look good all year, but puts out quite a show in the summer. it is a perrenial as long as you dont live where it is colder than -5 degrees F. it will die to the groung and come up in the spring. needs some water though
Reply:Be sure to test your soil first or you'll risk all the hard work. Tasha Tudor has really good designs with all the items you listed. Do you like the English Cottage Garden look? Even grasses need watering to establish, and if it doesn't rain.
PLEASE ENTER WHAT ZONE YOU'RE IN, and any microclimates, soil type, etc. If you don't know these, ask that question too.
Reply:Check out the website below for Dutch Gardens. You can give it search criteria such as sun, water, soil, etc and even what color flowers you want and it will give you matches.
Reply:Neighbourhood yards and your local garden centre are probably your best bet for what grows well in your area and how it will look.
Good Growing :)
Garden center business vs. landscape design business?
I am thinking about starting an organic garden center business. I do not have any experience with retail. Another option that I am considering is to become a landscape designer. It seems like going the landscape designer route would be less risky than entering the retail world, but I have to say I am drawn to the garden center business. Any ideas, advice? What should I consider before making my decision? Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.
Garden center business vs. landscape design business?
Well, I applaud you first of all for wanting to open an organic center. Depending on where you live will determine the marketability. I would advise to start with the center and offer design/installation as well. That way you will cover both areas of interest and generate leads on both ends.
There are probably lots of designers/installers around you, but not many if any organic supply centers. You can do wholesale to public as well, and if you do it can be operated as a farming business as long as you are growing things yourself even if from plugs (if you can find a supplier of organic plugs) to save on taxes.
Reply:Be advised.....There is a lot of back breaking manual work involved in landscaping. Heavy lifting, trench digging on super hot summer days,
Reply:Any business is competitive. If you have no experience in retail or landscape design or education and training, you will be eaten alive by those already successful at these things. Get some education or experience in the field, then try to start a business but understand that even when well prepared, new businesses fail at very high rates.
hot tags
Garden center business vs. landscape design business?
Well, I applaud you first of all for wanting to open an organic center. Depending on where you live will determine the marketability. I would advise to start with the center and offer design/installation as well. That way you will cover both areas of interest and generate leads on both ends.
There are probably lots of designers/installers around you, but not many if any organic supply centers. You can do wholesale to public as well, and if you do it can be operated as a farming business as long as you are growing things yourself even if from plugs (if you can find a supplier of organic plugs) to save on taxes.
Reply:Be advised.....There is a lot of back breaking manual work involved in landscaping. Heavy lifting, trench digging on super hot summer days,
Reply:Any business is competitive. If you have no experience in retail or landscape design or education and training, you will be eaten alive by those already successful at these things. Get some education or experience in the field, then try to start a business but understand that even when well prepared, new businesses fail at very high rates.
hot tags
I am looking to design my garden for my children aged 0-8 can you help me find the right designs?
yeah - it's called a fence, swing set and sandbox
I am looking to design my garden for my children aged 0-8 can you help me find the right designs?
Sometimes the most simple answer is the best. Report Abuse
Reply:There is too much to type about these gardens but they sound like what your looking for! They are in Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac for the year 2000. examples:A fairy Garden, A peter rabbit garden, a pizza garden, a bee garden, the five senses garden. Another book I'm trying to find at the library is A Kids Herb Book by lesley Tierra. Hope this helps.
Reply:Well the library would be a good bet, there are quite a few magazines (parenting and gardening alike that are good), but the lazy way would be to google it and find some ideas.
But really, a lot needs to go into this, so if you are looking at a gradening book, make sure you double check with the parenting mag to see what could be harmful for your babies and toddlers.
since the age group is varied, see if you can divide the garden into either different themes to make it fun, so that you have the right stuff for the right age. a good sturdy tree to build a tree house, a small picnic or tent area, a little fountain, or pond. those are some things you can look at.
sand pit, save that for later, you can plonck a temp one later.
Reply:Water sources for them to play in and yes a sandbox is good, as long as you feel that it is in a safe area, you know, free from possible snakes, etc. If it is an actual garden, let them plant something and watch it grow, and whether it is flowers or vegetables, let them pick it and do what they want to with it!
Reply:no ponds - climbing wall instead
Grass is good
lots of places to hide, lots of sneaky cut-throughs
Reply:A basic one with not a lot of harmful things in it would work best.
Try researching that on google or read a garden/parenting magazine. :)
Reply:don't know where to find design info BUT
1. plant very colorful flowers
sunflowers are always great with kids
2. things they like to eat, watermelons, pumpkins stuff like that ect.
Reply:ok i want to be a desiner when i grow up so here i am whats ur email adress and i'll talk to u
Reply:Do you mean so it's child-friendly to play in or child-friendly to help take care of, or both?
If it's to have them help take care of, get lots of brightly colored annual flowers (like daisies and sunflowers). Just make sure before you buy anything that they're not poisonous! Some very pretty plants are quite tempting to little ones and can make them very sick if they end up in their tummy!
If you're looking for something to design so they can run around in it, I'd make a circular design so it "pens" them in in a pretty manner (again, making sure you don't have any poisonous plants). Use mulch in the middle to make a soft ground for falling. Maybe put a small fountain in the middle (well set in the soil and high enough so the little ones can't climb in it!).
Have fun and happy summer.
Reply:why you want to design a garden for some kids is you slow?
Reply:Try the library
Reply:You can try going on line to hgtv and look at the diffrent designs they may have. It will give you an idea of what is safe and both accessible for your self as well as the children.
I am looking to design my garden for my children aged 0-8 can you help me find the right designs?
Sometimes the most simple answer is the best. Report Abuse
Reply:There is too much to type about these gardens but they sound like what your looking for! They are in Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac for the year 2000. examples:A fairy Garden, A peter rabbit garden, a pizza garden, a bee garden, the five senses garden. Another book I'm trying to find at the library is A Kids Herb Book by lesley Tierra. Hope this helps.
Reply:Well the library would be a good bet, there are quite a few magazines (parenting and gardening alike that are good), but the lazy way would be to google it and find some ideas.
But really, a lot needs to go into this, so if you are looking at a gradening book, make sure you double check with the parenting mag to see what could be harmful for your babies and toddlers.
since the age group is varied, see if you can divide the garden into either different themes to make it fun, so that you have the right stuff for the right age. a good sturdy tree to build a tree house, a small picnic or tent area, a little fountain, or pond. those are some things you can look at.
sand pit, save that for later, you can plonck a temp one later.
Reply:Water sources for them to play in and yes a sandbox is good, as long as you feel that it is in a safe area, you know, free from possible snakes, etc. If it is an actual garden, let them plant something and watch it grow, and whether it is flowers or vegetables, let them pick it and do what they want to with it!
Reply:no ponds - climbing wall instead
Grass is good
lots of places to hide, lots of sneaky cut-throughs
Reply:A basic one with not a lot of harmful things in it would work best.
Try researching that on google or read a garden/parenting magazine. :)
Reply:don't know where to find design info BUT
1. plant very colorful flowers
sunflowers are always great with kids
2. things they like to eat, watermelons, pumpkins stuff like that ect.
Reply:ok i want to be a desiner when i grow up so here i am whats ur email adress and i'll talk to u
Reply:Do you mean so it's child-friendly to play in or child-friendly to help take care of, or both?
If it's to have them help take care of, get lots of brightly colored annual flowers (like daisies and sunflowers). Just make sure before you buy anything that they're not poisonous! Some very pretty plants are quite tempting to little ones and can make them very sick if they end up in their tummy!
If you're looking for something to design so they can run around in it, I'd make a circular design so it "pens" them in in a pretty manner (again, making sure you don't have any poisonous plants). Use mulch in the middle to make a soft ground for falling. Maybe put a small fountain in the middle (well set in the soil and high enough so the little ones can't climb in it!).
Have fun and happy summer.
Reply:why you want to design a garden for some kids is you slow?
Reply:Try the library
Reply:You can try going on line to hgtv and look at the diffrent designs they may have. It will give you an idea of what is safe and both accessible for your self as well as the children.
Can anybody tell me where to find a website to design virtual gardens?
I would like to change things in my garden..it is not too small..but i want to design it myself...I tried books but they didn't help too much.
Please let me know if there is a website where we can create virtual gardens.
Thanks!!!
Can anybody tell me where to find a website to design virtual gardens?
What a cool idea! Try this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi...
or just search on "virtual garden" or something like that for more possible sites. That's how I found this one. Good luck!
Reply:go to www.google.com type in there search box virtural gardening.
Please let me know if there is a website where we can create virtual gardens.
Thanks!!!
Can anybody tell me where to find a website to design virtual gardens?
What a cool idea! Try this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/vi...
or just search on "virtual garden" or something like that for more possible sites. That's how I found this one. Good luck!
Reply:go to www.google.com type in there search box virtural gardening.
Anyone know of free downloadable software for MAC that I can use to design my garden landscaping? Thanks?
bbc website have a mac landscaping programme thats free
Anyone know of free downloadable software for MAC that I can use to design my garden landscaping? Thanks?
Nothing worth while in life is FREE! When you get serious to do it on your own, try www.useful-information-in-oz.com
Anyone know of free downloadable software for MAC that I can use to design my garden landscaping? Thanks?
Nothing worth while in life is FREE! When you get serious to do it on your own, try www.useful-information-in-oz.com
I am planning a roof garden,any pre-requisites to protect the ceiling?
I am planning a roof garden,any pre-requisites to protect the ceiling? ia m not sure how the work is executed, coz i dont want to see watermarks on my ceiling. how are roof gardens designed. what pre-requistes do we need to make?does this create stains and cracks to ceiling?
I am planning a roof garden,any pre-requisites to protect the ceiling?
I've not done it before, but... I know a company that specializes in green roofs. I hope that this helps. Check out their Web-site and E-Mail them.
Reply:go with a hydroponics setup which would only be the weight of water and containers-and a lot less water than when using soil. or use a lighweight soilless mixture. or you can have a green roof which is nice but complicated and costly,using 5mil. plastic membranes btwn roof and several layers of soil/soilless mix.
Reply:This blog may help.
http://geosynthetic.blogspot.com/search/...
Reply:you need an engineer to look at the structure of your building. roof gardens add alot of wieght to the structure. must have a rubber barrier to keep moisture from getting in.
my fish
I am planning a roof garden,any pre-requisites to protect the ceiling?
I've not done it before, but... I know a company that specializes in green roofs. I hope that this helps. Check out their Web-site and E-Mail them.
Reply:go with a hydroponics setup which would only be the weight of water and containers-and a lot less water than when using soil. or use a lighweight soilless mixture. or you can have a green roof which is nice but complicated and costly,using 5mil. plastic membranes btwn roof and several layers of soil/soilless mix.
Reply:This blog may help.
http://geosynthetic.blogspot.com/search/...
Reply:you need an engineer to look at the structure of your building. roof gardens add alot of wieght to the structure. must have a rubber barrier to keep moisture from getting in.
my fish
What design is better in a garden....?
...evenly placed plants that have space between them, or flowers everywhere? I want to put a mixture of hostas and flowering plants in next year, but I'm not sure if it will look too bare. Right now I have flowers kind of everywhere and it looks a bit messy. Thanks!
What design is better in a garden....?
I like to do both. In the yards I have planted, I have liked the idea of having a foundation planting of shrubs and massed plantings. Then at the entrance to the house and in backyard gardens I plant whatever I want, mixed together. My idea is that the mixed plantings are more labor intensive, so I keep them small, and located where I am most likely to see and enjoy them. The shrubbery in the background is easier to maintain and accents the more colorful beds of annuals or perennials.
I enjoy changing things around and trying new plants in the garden. I have just found that (for me) gardens can get overwhelming if they are too big and take constant maintenance.
Reply:It's your garden so it's your rules. Do what you like. You mentioned putting two plants together for symmetry, so you may prefer a more "formal" look, rather than a casual one, which may be why you think your garden looks messy. I personally like flowers planted in clumps rather than all lined up, but as I said, it's your garden and you're the artist, so you HAVE to do what you like. Remember that your hostas will die back each year so plan accordingly and try not to leave that area too bare (plant something evergreen nearby). Most importantly, have your garden reflect yourself and have fun!
What design is better in a garden....?
I like to do both. In the yards I have planted, I have liked the idea of having a foundation planting of shrubs and massed plantings. Then at the entrance to the house and in backyard gardens I plant whatever I want, mixed together. My idea is that the mixed plantings are more labor intensive, so I keep them small, and located where I am most likely to see and enjoy them. The shrubbery in the background is easier to maintain and accents the more colorful beds of annuals or perennials.
I enjoy changing things around and trying new plants in the garden. I have just found that (for me) gardens can get overwhelming if they are too big and take constant maintenance.
Reply:It's your garden so it's your rules. Do what you like. You mentioned putting two plants together for symmetry, so you may prefer a more "formal" look, rather than a casual one, which may be why you think your garden looks messy. I personally like flowers planted in clumps rather than all lined up, but as I said, it's your garden and you're the artist, so you HAVE to do what you like. Remember that your hostas will die back each year so plan accordingly and try not to leave that area too bare (plant something evergreen nearby). Most importantly, have your garden reflect yourself and have fun!
Vegetable garden design????
G'day, just moved to central Florida and am itching to get a raised veggie garden going. Any hints or tips (pests and disease avoidance) would be very appreciated :)
Vegetable garden design????
I just built a raised vegetable garden in Michigan and I absolutely LOVE it. My raised garden is quite large . . . 24' x 16'. I purchased treated 4 x 4's at Home Depot, stacked two high (8 inches) and secured them with stainless steel brackets and large screws. Then I used simple lattice as a fence . . . which I reinforced at the top and bottom . . . and attached inside the 4 x 4's. With my size garden . . . it took 8 yards of soil to fill it. I was wheelbarreling dirt for 2 days straight over Memorial Day weekend !!! Not fun. Where we live . . . the lattice is sufficient for keeping critters out. We've had zero damage so far (knocking on wood). But I did purchase a wire fence to go inside the lattice just in case. But so far I haven't had to. Also . . . before I put the soil in . . . I put a layer of compost for a base. Most cities in Michigan produce and give free compost away . . . which is nice. You should check with your local city to see if they offer free compost. We couldn't be happier with the garden. The veggies are going crazy !!! Have fun with it whatever you end up doing. It's a fantastic hobby.
Reply:Hi, I have a garden here in Vermont and as for the pest are concerned you can follow recommended procedures from garden centers . Design ? i let what veggies i plant dictate . tomatoes need certain space as do carrots and all other veggies. The bigger your garden the better you can space your produce , thus easier to maintain. you can walk Thur the rows and not trample the plants. Good luck on your new garden!
Reply:I don't live in Florida, but I can tell you that you should watch out for fire ants when you go to plant that garden and in the future maintenance of your garden. They take many people by surprise, and then they are on them biting like lightening, and they are very painful.
Chicken wire is necessary to keep large pests out of any garden. Mist sprayers are the absolute best---they are motion detectors and everytime a pest comes close they are set off. The vegetables grow absolutely huge. Not cheap though, mist sprayers. Chicken wire is the alternative cheaper method.
Also, since I don't know where you are from--I would warn you that killer bees and black widow spiders live in Florida.
Vegetable garden design????
I just built a raised vegetable garden in Michigan and I absolutely LOVE it. My raised garden is quite large . . . 24' x 16'. I purchased treated 4 x 4's at Home Depot, stacked two high (8 inches) and secured them with stainless steel brackets and large screws. Then I used simple lattice as a fence . . . which I reinforced at the top and bottom . . . and attached inside the 4 x 4's. With my size garden . . . it took 8 yards of soil to fill it. I was wheelbarreling dirt for 2 days straight over Memorial Day weekend !!! Not fun. Where we live . . . the lattice is sufficient for keeping critters out. We've had zero damage so far (knocking on wood). But I did purchase a wire fence to go inside the lattice just in case. But so far I haven't had to. Also . . . before I put the soil in . . . I put a layer of compost for a base. Most cities in Michigan produce and give free compost away . . . which is nice. You should check with your local city to see if they offer free compost. We couldn't be happier with the garden. The veggies are going crazy !!! Have fun with it whatever you end up doing. It's a fantastic hobby.
Reply:Hi, I have a garden here in Vermont and as for the pest are concerned you can follow recommended procedures from garden centers . Design ? i let what veggies i plant dictate . tomatoes need certain space as do carrots and all other veggies. The bigger your garden the better you can space your produce , thus easier to maintain. you can walk Thur the rows and not trample the plants. Good luck on your new garden!
Reply:I don't live in Florida, but I can tell you that you should watch out for fire ants when you go to plant that garden and in the future maintenance of your garden. They take many people by surprise, and then they are on them biting like lightening, and they are very painful.
Chicken wire is necessary to keep large pests out of any garden. Mist sprayers are the absolute best---they are motion detectors and everytime a pest comes close they are set off. The vegetables grow absolutely huge. Not cheap though, mist sprayers. Chicken wire is the alternative cheaper method.
Also, since I don't know where you are from--I would warn you that killer bees and black widow spiders live in Florida.
I am busy watching Home and Garden, missed where to find how to design your own home. Please help, website?
Better Homes and Gardens, on LIfestyle Channel
I am busy watching Home and Garden, missed where to find how to design your own home. Please help, website?
Umm, I'm not quite sure this fit your question or not but I do recommend you a site called PASAYA Online Shop
There, you can find most of home decor stuffs like bedding, curtains or cushions
http://www.pasaya.com/language/en/index....
If it fits what you're after, tell me though ;)
Reply:www.homesandgardens.com its the magazine website
I am busy watching Home and Garden, missed where to find how to design your own home. Please help, website?
Umm, I'm not quite sure this fit your question or not but I do recommend you a site called PASAYA Online Shop
There, you can find most of home decor stuffs like bedding, curtains or cushions
http://www.pasaya.com/language/en/index....
If it fits what you're after, tell me though ;)
Reply:www.homesandgardens.com its the magazine website
Hassock Garden Design?
in my opinion hassock ottoman is great idea for your garden
Hassock Garden Design?
Floor pillows make a good hassock!
try:
http://throwmeapillow.com/floral_tapestr...
horns costume
Hassock Garden Design?
Floor pillows make a good hassock!
try:
http://throwmeapillow.com/floral_tapestr...
horns costume
I need someone in bristol (U.K) DESIGN AND do my garden-any offers?
my garden is quite big and i don't have green fingers. It is laid to lawn. It is too boring, i want it designed and for it to have an exotic look. I need it to be relatively low maintence.
I need someone in bristol (U.K) DESIGN AND do my garden-any offers?
Well flower, I would suggest that you go along to the library and get yourself a few books on the subject of garden design.
You never know you might actually enjoy it and think of the sense of achievement of doing something for yourself.
If you are serious and want to re-do your garden don't have piddly little borders around the edge, make them nice and deep.
If you are buying pots or containers buy the largest you can afford, they look big in the garden centre but will look much smaller in your garden.
The RHS website has more gardening advice than anyone could ever need, here's the link.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/index.htm
Good luck.
Reply:All you need is aladdins lamp,that will solve your problem.
I need someone in bristol (U.K) DESIGN AND do my garden-any offers?
Well flower, I would suggest that you go along to the library and get yourself a few books on the subject of garden design.
You never know you might actually enjoy it and think of the sense of achievement of doing something for yourself.
If you are serious and want to re-do your garden don't have piddly little borders around the edge, make them nice and deep.
If you are buying pots or containers buy the largest you can afford, they look big in the garden centre but will look much smaller in your garden.
The RHS website has more gardening advice than anyone could ever need, here's the link.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/index.htm
Good luck.
Reply:All you need is aladdins lamp,that will solve your problem.
Pics of garden design in texas?
I dont have any pics but have found this site if you want to design a garden take a look at www.traderoutesnw.com
Pics of garden design in texas?
Due to the size of the state, various terrains, climates, etc. , the designs, plants, style, and nature of the gardens can vary greatly from desert style to wild nature, or to formals. And don't forget everything in between.
Hiking Shoes
Pics of garden design in texas?
Due to the size of the state, various terrains, climates, etc. , the designs, plants, style, and nature of the gardens can vary greatly from desert style to wild nature, or to formals. And don't forget everything in between.
Hiking Shoes
Would you be interested in a "virtual garden" where you could design, visit everyday, contribute & earn a
garden room dedicated %26amp; named by you? Also be able to get married in a choice of rooms after the garden is prepared enough-just watch 2 acres of a mountain ridge made even more beautiful ? I want to use my "ridge" for outdoor weddings eventually . I have a phobia of driving %26amp; my husband retired %26amp; we moved here because he inherited it . Ive done alot of work on it so far, but it's taken me 5 years to get this far- I need help-I love playing in the yard, so why not try to make a living doing what I love;I asked about breeding I guess that won't work. So now what does everyone think of this idea? I've never had a license-I'm stranded!! I can't play in the yard if I'm trying to earn money on surveys.I've wasted a WHOLE YEAR trying to earn money. Why do I want money? I just want to fix my home up so I have enough room for everything-I have a loving family that visits alot,I have to do something;any help will be greatly appreciated.I'm still going on with my plans, I just want to know about
Would you be interested in a "virtual garden" where you could design, visit everyday, contribute %26amp; earn a
no
Reply:Maybe this is what you're looking for:
http://www.bobvila.com/DesignT...
http://bobvila.view22.com/view...
http://bobvila.view22.com/view... Report Abuse
Reply:sorry, i didn't hear about it before
Reply:You have me completely confused. What is a virtual garden? What rooms? What state do we travel to to use your gardening facility? I'm in Florida, it would have to be close by. Good Luck on getting another income. I really do understand the need for more money to fix-up your home.
Reply:hmm...sorry but no, sounds like an okay idea but I think it'll get old fairly fast.
Would you be interested in a "virtual garden" where you could design, visit everyday, contribute %26amp; earn a
no
Reply:Maybe this is what you're looking for:
http://www.bobvila.com/DesignT...
http://bobvila.view22.com/view...
http://bobvila.view22.com/view... Report Abuse
Reply:sorry, i didn't hear about it before
Reply:You have me completely confused. What is a virtual garden? What rooms? What state do we travel to to use your gardening facility? I'm in Florida, it would have to be close by. Good Luck on getting another income. I really do understand the need for more money to fix-up your home.
Reply:hmm...sorry but no, sounds like an okay idea but I think it'll get old fairly fast.
What tools do I need to know to start a landscape and gardening design business?
Years ago I worked in a amateur way in gardening maintenance. I realice that I liked it a lot but I don't have the specific knoledge and experience to start a landscape and gardening design business. I have the feeling that I have the creativity for doing this but of course this is not all. Could someone help me telling me the kind of tools that I would require to start this gradually? Maybe I would requiere to know some landscape design software, etc. In short, what kind of tools would be necesary to have and learn. Maybe the thing would be more complex like doing an Business plan? I'll thank any advice. Chris
What tools do I need to know to start a landscape and gardening design business?
mower
bobcat
trimmers
Edger
Gardener: A truck or trailer to carry your equipment and debris (although some enterprising people have even started without this). A lawn mower, rake, broom, and other small hand tools. Buy your equipment used if necessary, but shop carefully.
Landscaper: Basically you need hand tools and a truck or trailer. To start with most other tools you can rent.
Interiorscaper: A car or truck is necessary, watering cans, and assorted small hand tools.
%26gt;From the basic requirements to start it would seem that interiorscaping requires the smallest capital outlay. This is correct, but starting an interiorscape business is more difficult in other ways. It requires a better understanding of the trade. Indoor plants are much more difficult to maintain. Also, acquiring accounts is not as easy as in outdoor work. Most, if not all, interiorscape accounts will be commercial, as opposed to the residential work of gardeners.
For gardeners and landscapers a truck or trailer is a must, but as I mentioned earlier it is possible to start without one for some work. If you are doing maintenance you may be able to get accounts that will allow you to use their equipment and not require you to haul away debris. You will be expected to work very inexpensively, though. If you can get a truck do so.
For both gardeners and landscapers another source of income is from clean-ups. This is simply a one-time job of cleaning up an overgrown landscape. These jobs are hard work, but can be quite profitable.
In every business you have to contend with the government. Service businesses are no different. Before you get started investigate what is required in your area. Most likely you will need a business license from your city. The state may require a contractor's license or certification for landscape contractors. Most likely your state will require a pest control license if you intend to apply pesticides. Check out all the city, state, and federal rules before you start.
misc hand tools rakes shovels
What tools do I need to know to start a landscape and gardening design business?
mower
bobcat
trimmers
Edger
Gardener: A truck or trailer to carry your equipment and debris (although some enterprising people have even started without this). A lawn mower, rake, broom, and other small hand tools. Buy your equipment used if necessary, but shop carefully.
Landscaper: Basically you need hand tools and a truck or trailer. To start with most other tools you can rent.
Interiorscaper: A car or truck is necessary, watering cans, and assorted small hand tools.
%26gt;From the basic requirements to start it would seem that interiorscaping requires the smallest capital outlay. This is correct, but starting an interiorscape business is more difficult in other ways. It requires a better understanding of the trade. Indoor plants are much more difficult to maintain. Also, acquiring accounts is not as easy as in outdoor work. Most, if not all, interiorscape accounts will be commercial, as opposed to the residential work of gardeners.
For gardeners and landscapers a truck or trailer is a must, but as I mentioned earlier it is possible to start without one for some work. If you are doing maintenance you may be able to get accounts that will allow you to use their equipment and not require you to haul away debris. You will be expected to work very inexpensively, though. If you can get a truck do so.
For both gardeners and landscapers another source of income is from clean-ups. This is simply a one-time job of cleaning up an overgrown landscape. These jobs are hard work, but can be quite profitable.
In every business you have to contend with the government. Service businesses are no different. Before you get started investigate what is required in your area. Most likely you will need a business license from your city. The state may require a contractor's license or certification for landscape contractors. Most likely your state will require a pest control license if you intend to apply pesticides. Check out all the city, state, and federal rules before you start.
misc hand tools rakes shovels
How can I design a sprinkler system for my garden (grass)?
The dimensions of my garden(grass) are 89'3" high and 28'6" wide. How many sprinkler I need and that distance among each one of them I should have? Thank U for U help. :o)
How can I design a sprinkler system for my garden (grass)?
Call a contractor!!!!
Reply:First thing is to find out how much pressure you have coming out of your outside water faucet. Best way to find out the psi is to get a pressure gauge and hook it up to faucet and turn it on. If you have more than 60 psi, you can run up to 3 rainbird ( 5000 series) heads per zone. You would need 6 heads total. The 5000 series can shoot up to 40 ft. per head with different size nozzles. My company usually uses a 2 gal per min nozzle. This nozzle will shoot up to 35 ft. Rainbird has the best type of sprinkler heads because it has a rain curtain design. these heads can be adjusted from 90 degrees to 360 degrees and can be baffled down to different spray patterns. You can e-mail my husband at martyisp@hotmail.com if you have any questions.
Reply:the trick to a sprinkler system is to figure ur gpm ( gallons per min. ) from where ur getting ur water supply. take a 5 gal. bucket, time how long it takes u to fill it up. lets say it takes 20 seconds to fill up the 5 gal bucket then u r working with :
20 secs = 5 gals
60 ( 1 min. ) divided by 20 ( secs to fill 5 gal bucket )= 3
3 x 5 gal= 15 gals. per min.
then u have to buy ur sprinkler heads and make sure they dont add up past 15 gals a min. all heads r sold that way.
so if ur getting 15 gpm supply, then u can use something like:
5- 3 gpm heads or 7- 2 gpm heads.
then u have to figure zones. and u have to know how far each head will " throw" their water.
go to lowes or similar, write down what there heads r in gpm and how far each head will throw. then take a sheet of graph paper and scale ur yard. then stating in a corner of ur graph draw in a head and scale the throw. at the end of the throw place another head working down one side of the graph paper.
email me if u need to.......
How can I design a sprinkler system for my garden (grass)?
Call a contractor!!!!
Reply:First thing is to find out how much pressure you have coming out of your outside water faucet. Best way to find out the psi is to get a pressure gauge and hook it up to faucet and turn it on. If you have more than 60 psi, you can run up to 3 rainbird ( 5000 series) heads per zone. You would need 6 heads total. The 5000 series can shoot up to 40 ft. per head with different size nozzles. My company usually uses a 2 gal per min nozzle. This nozzle will shoot up to 35 ft. Rainbird has the best type of sprinkler heads because it has a rain curtain design. these heads can be adjusted from 90 degrees to 360 degrees and can be baffled down to different spray patterns. You can e-mail my husband at martyisp@hotmail.com if you have any questions.
Reply:the trick to a sprinkler system is to figure ur gpm ( gallons per min. ) from where ur getting ur water supply. take a 5 gal. bucket, time how long it takes u to fill it up. lets say it takes 20 seconds to fill up the 5 gal bucket then u r working with :
20 secs = 5 gals
60 ( 1 min. ) divided by 20 ( secs to fill 5 gal bucket )= 3
3 x 5 gal= 15 gals. per min.
then u have to buy ur sprinkler heads and make sure they dont add up past 15 gals a min. all heads r sold that way.
so if ur getting 15 gpm supply, then u can use something like:
5- 3 gpm heads or 7- 2 gpm heads.
then u have to figure zones. and u have to know how far each head will " throw" their water.
go to lowes or similar, write down what there heads r in gpm and how far each head will throw. then take a sheet of graph paper and scale ur yard. then stating in a corner of ur graph draw in a head and scale the throw. at the end of the throw place another head working down one side of the graph paper.
email me if u need to.......
Does anyone no of a website that shows ideas of how to design a back garden suitable for a 2 year old?
its a decent sixe garden 35ft by 22ft so any ideas would be great thanks x
Does anyone no of a website that shows ideas of how to design a back garden suitable for a 2 year old?
yahoo answers!!!
be sure to put in a sand pit
Reply:No. That is my answer to your question.
However, I happen to know that wheat grass sprouts in three days, is edible, and fun to grow (if you are a toddler, or like me, slightly deranged)
Also, radishes have edible shoots very quickly which are so spicy that you might just leave some to grow actual radishes.
My dad grew carrots in our tiny first back yard and one of my first memories is of him pulling a new one, washing it under the garden hose, and letting me eat it.
Some flowers are edible. I think those would be fun for a toddler.
Some plants (mints, ivy) draw bees, and I think those would be less fun.
I have pleasant memories of "snapping beans" with my grandmother, but have no idea how useful I was as a bean snapper, or how important my productivity was. So I imagine if you don't NEED food value, and can play around with what you grow, anything of food value is VERY COOL.
BERRIES of any sort are also very cool. They are sweetest plucked straight off the plant, when you are hot and thirsty, or just before dusk, when you know you will be called in.
You are doing a wonderful thing by introducing your baby to gardening. You may have no idea how long the memory of a garden hose and new carrot can live with a person. :)
Bless you, and may you reap enough to be worth the backache of the sowing! :) You are doing good.
AND for interested parties who do not have yard space, you can grow peppers, berries, flowers, anything else, in pots in a windowsill or balcony. I've heard of strawberry plants bearing in tin cans in windowsills.
shared web hosting
Does anyone no of a website that shows ideas of how to design a back garden suitable for a 2 year old?
yahoo answers!!!
be sure to put in a sand pit
Reply:No. That is my answer to your question.
However, I happen to know that wheat grass sprouts in three days, is edible, and fun to grow (if you are a toddler, or like me, slightly deranged)
Also, radishes have edible shoots very quickly which are so spicy that you might just leave some to grow actual radishes.
My dad grew carrots in our tiny first back yard and one of my first memories is of him pulling a new one, washing it under the garden hose, and letting me eat it.
Some flowers are edible. I think those would be fun for a toddler.
Some plants (mints, ivy) draw bees, and I think those would be less fun.
I have pleasant memories of "snapping beans" with my grandmother, but have no idea how useful I was as a bean snapper, or how important my productivity was. So I imagine if you don't NEED food value, and can play around with what you grow, anything of food value is VERY COOL.
BERRIES of any sort are also very cool. They are sweetest plucked straight off the plant, when you are hot and thirsty, or just before dusk, when you know you will be called in.
You are doing a wonderful thing by introducing your baby to gardening. You may have no idea how long the memory of a garden hose and new carrot can live with a person. :)
Bless you, and may you reap enough to be worth the backache of the sowing! :) You are doing good.
AND for interested parties who do not have yard space, you can grow peppers, berries, flowers, anything else, in pots in a windowsill or balcony. I've heard of strawberry plants bearing in tin cans in windowsills.
shared web hosting
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)