Garden design – Page 4 – Garden Making

Visit new gardens to explore garden design

March 9, 2019December 4, 2014 by Beckie Fox

There’s eye candy for plant lovers everywhere you turn at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I love how the containers, foliage, branches and blooms all work together to create intimate vignettes. (Garden Making photo)

Visit gardens helps you explore the creativity of garden design – how someone else arranges plants, combines colours, positions paths or places ornaments.

Visits inspire garden design ideas

January 13, 2019September 25, 2014 by Beckie Fox

Visiting gardens farther afield also offers up lots of inspiration, especially garden design ideas that can be transplanted to your own space.

Motivation for a new gardener (or new garden)

February 5, 2019August 19, 2012 by Kat Fox

Low fencing works perfectly with the variegated hostas.

I went on my first garden tour this summer and discovered several good gardening ideas even newbies like myself can handle. In case you’re one of the few who don’t … Read more

A garden designer’s view on trends

February 5, 2019February 29, 2012 by Beckie Fox

Determine how you want to use the space. (Photo by Catherine Geraats)

Catherine Geraats of Aphrodite Design Group was the garden designer who designed Garden Making’s feature garden for Canada Blooms in 2012 in Toronto. We asked Catherine about what’s new in garden design. And she had some advice for new homeowners hiring a landscape designer.

In Winter, think garden design

October 26, 2011 by Garden Making

The Winter 2011-12 issue of Garden Making magazine includes our annual Garden Design Special Feature. This is issue No. 8 and is our 2nd Design Issue, full of inspiring garden design … Read more