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Gardens & Gardening

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Collection of beautiful gardens and ideas for gardening

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succulents

Raised beds

Purple succulents.

Harvested vegetables

Aloe polyphylla, or spiral aloe - drought tolerant

Japanese feel

Mixtures of salvias, garden phlox and grasses create this variation on the purple, pink and chartreuse theme. Successful garden beds depend on marrying plants that have similar needs for light and water.

Fountain surrounding a bed

Does $3000 seem like a reasonable price?

Peloric foxglove

Gardens up the hill from the Alhambra

Beautiful shape and trunk

Erysimum 'Winter Orchid'

Classic

Simple little corner

Simple hedges frame the reflecting pool

Beautiful

Awesome, ancient olive trees ...

Lavender fields near Grasse

Japanese Zen Garden - hard to keep intact with kids

Vertical garden

roses

Hummingbird Favorites - Red-Hot Poker

I like organization

Too much hardscape

Love to have a garden like this...

Knot Garden, Old Rectory, Netherbury, West Dorset, U.K.

Japanese White Pine bonsai

Plantagon, a Swedish-American company, has recently created their take on the vertical farm idea: a geodesic dome containing an urban Plantagon® greenhouse. 

French botanist Patrick Blanc is generally credited with the invention of the vertical garden and constructed his first in 1988. Here is one of his works at Halles, Avignon. However Professor Stanley Hart White patented the first known Vertical Garden in 1938.

Malmö University

Vertical Garden Design has been at the forefront of vertical green walls in Europe since the early 2000s

Imagine what cities could look like with vertical green walls...

I admit to being skeptical about internal green walls, but when taken care of, they really add to the overall vibe.

I love the concept of urban green walls

The European Environmental Agency's green wall, "Europe in Bloom", near Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark

Garden of Augustus, Capri, Italy

One of the nine themed gardens at the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

Le Pavillon de Galon in Cucuron

Lavender at the Jardins du Château Val Joanis in the middle of July.

Rose garden at the Chateau de Losse in Dordogne, one of more than 300 gardens classified as "Jardins remarquables" by the French Ministry of Culture

The gentleman farmer (me) at the Jardins du Château Val Joanis

Love the Espalier at the Jardins du Château Val Joanis outside of in the town of Pertuis in the Vaucluse