Garden Pictures & Ideas for Garden Design Inspiration

Inspiration for your garden, from an artist who filled her garden with quirky, whimsical pieces that compliment her plants.

It's hard to find a true blue in nature and even harder to grow it in the garden. But these 12 plants offer a spectrum of blues to choose from.

Butterfly Gardening

Gardening in containers puts you in control of almost everything. You can experiment with plant combinations and color. You can easily swap out plants with the season. You can even let them follow the sun, or use them to fill in gaps in a border. And container gardens fit just about anywhere. So there's no excuse not to have a garden.

How to grow hardy geraniums. Choosing from among the wide assortment of hardy, true, perennial cranesbill geraniums out there.

Gardeners have been know to create very personal garden decorations from everyday objects. The garden art displayed here shows a gardeners sense of whimsy and love for every corner of her garden. The ideas showcased in this garden art gallery should inspire the gardener in you to feature more than plants in your garden borders.

Photo Gallery of Red Flowers and Foliage and How to Use them in the Garden.

Examples of well executed small garden designs. Photos of small flower gardens, borders, containers and vegetable gardens, to get your ideas flowing.

Spreading groundcover type perennial plants are great to use to fill in cracks and spaces in paved walkways and patios. Plants like spreading sedums and creeping thyme are favorites because they not only look great, they can handle some foot traffic and neglect. These spreading plants soften the edges of concrete walkways and give an aged appearance, as they fill in on patios and steps.

Use these photos of urban gardens to create your own city garden. Flowers, vegetables - even trees and shrubs, for small yards, terraces and up on the roof.

The water gardens featured here are each very personal to the gardener who designed them. Most people say their biggest mistake is not making their water garden large enough. These photos show how elaborate or intimate a water garden can be and still be inviting and satifying to the gardener. I hope they'll provide you with some inspiration...

Zinnias are a popular flower that is easy to grow from seed. They come in colors from crystal white to pastels to vibrantly hot pinks and oranges. Beautiful, low maintenance and very drought tolerant, zinnias also make great cut flowers.