great garden photo-filled blogs?

15 years ago

I have searched and searched and asked on here before, too, and here I am begging again: I would so love an eye candy filled blog similar to the great Cote de Texas blog on decorating. Ah to simply scroll and scroll for more and more gorgeous pics, with referrals to other similar blogs. So many garden photo sites are, in the main, photo close-ups of flowers, not the garden rooms I am looking for. Anyone here have any good ones to share?

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buddyrose
15 years ago
here's one shot of my garden. I have others but I'm watching Celebrity Apprentice.
mary_lu_gw
15 years ago
Hi, mine is not a blog, but a series of web pages that document our gardens from the first year(2002)through last year. You are welcome to visit.
Marylu

Here is a link that might be useful: Welcome to our gardens
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leahcate
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh thank you both! Your gardens are beautiful,and I loved seeing them, but think I wasn't clear in my request. By "good ones to share", I meant garden BLOGS ! :>) Now I'll go back and drool some more over your pics:>) Garden Blogs anyone?
bonnieann925
15 years ago
Here are some:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBS_enUS259US260&q=Garden+blogs

Also check out the garden forums here. It's a good source of information, paricularly about the regional differences in gardening.
mollycats
15 years ago
Mary Lu your garden is perfect. I absolutely love it!
kpaquette
15 years ago
My god Mary Lu! Incredible! What is growing on your fence? We are also considering a lattice fence to block out our neighbors (whose house is literally in our tiny back yard.) We had our landscaping ripped out last fall and are starting from scratch this spring - thank you so much for these pictures! Want to come design my garden? ;-)
phyl345
15 years ago
buddyrose ~~ how beautiful! ~~ you ARE going to show us more, aren't you?? celebrity apprentice is over & done with ~~ no more excuses; show us some more pictures of that gorgeous garden!

marylu ~~ what fun to see your progress over such a SHORT period of time (are you retired?)~~ i have been working on my gardens for 5 seasons now ~~ but they don't look anywhere near as *complete* ~~ very, very impressive ~~

question for both of you: what zone are you gardening in?

phyl, gardening in zone 5, suburbs north of chicago
buddyrose
15 years ago
Couple more garden pix... It's very narrow but lush. Small water fall into small pond that in summer is filled with floating flowers.
buddyrose
15 years ago
few weeks after this photo was taken the whole pergola was covered in white flowers. amazing.
leahcate
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank you bonnieann for the link back to google. That's where I began my search before asking on here! And, yes! The garden forums on here are great. For example, over in 'Roses' there is a post "A rose 4b rose garden" with pics of an amazing young woman and her 350 bush rose garden,lilies and more!Def. worth a peek!
I just hoped someone here had found a truly wonderful site with an abundance of garden pics( vs. flower close-up shots) that are so useful for design ideas. Thanks again all, I'll keep searching.:>)
mary_lu_gw
15 years ago
leahcate, no not a blog, but I had hoped that the many "area" garden shots included in the yearly pages would perhaps give you some ideas.

mollycats and kpaquette, thank you! It has been a labor of love but the results are well worth it.

phyl345, sorry no, not retired. Wish I could be but no such luck. Work full time. We garden in zone 4/5 southern Wisconsin. You should be able to grow most everything that I do. I usually plant zone 4 plants, but do stretch to zone 5 occasionally. We have about 100 roses and perhaps 80-90 named daylilies as well as many other perennials. I do spend time on the Cottage Garden forum as well as the Rose forum. Lots of great forums and posters here!
judithva
15 years ago
This is not a blog, but a Flickr site of pages and pages of one of the most beautiful yards/garden I have ever seen.

If you are not familiar with Flickr, just click and the photos and pages, if you want to see a larger pic of the photo, just above the smaller pic, click "All Sizes"

ENJOY!!

Click link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Beautiful Garden
spitfire_01
15 years ago
Cameron (wonbyherwits) has a beautiful garden blog. I thought I had a link saved to it but it must be on my other computer. Maybe she will see this and post.

BTW, I'm drooling over everyone's gorgeous garden photos. I took a vacation day today to work on my new flower beds. I've been planning this all winter. Now that it is time for action, I find myself paralyzed by fear of doing the wrong thing. This is when I wish my husband was a little more "into" gardening. I sure could use a helper/planner/advisor/heavy-lifter(!).

Nin
leahcate
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh boy! More goodies. Yes, mary lu, yours was full of great inspiration pics. Judithva...cannot wait to check your link out. Hope they are as pretty as your tablescapes! Hope I can can find cameron's garden pics. Fun! Thanks everyone. Spring has sprung, even in no dogwood- rododendren- forsythia...sigh...So. Ca., and I'm looking forward to getting inspired! HAPPY-ALMOST- SPRING ALL!
judithva
15 years ago
leahcate, definately check out the link, you will be stunned by their garden, I could only wish my yard/garden could look half as good.
dekr8
15 years ago
Here is the link to Cameron's blog I believe. It was in the thread below.

http://definingyourhome.blogspot.com/2008/07/designing-colorful-deer-resistant.html

Here is a link that might be useful: GW thread which includes WBHW photos & Blog link

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