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Gardening by design The garden tool bag should include a calendar, digital camera and journal. A very good article on Inside Bay Area News

Garden Design in Warwickshire, UK
Consultations for advice and inspiration
Tailor-made design for every individual Innovative planting ideas from concept to completion Specification of works, recommended landscapers and project management

Whispering Cane Institues I am a Professional Landscape Designer, writer, lecturer, artist, and teacher. I design residential, industrial, and commercial landscapes; using both curvilinear and geometric themes. Adapting to the needs of the client and the site. The Whispering Crane Institute also provides seminars and workshops for those in the "Green Industry"

GardenersInfoPoint.com you will find a great amount of information on topics like garden design, gardening tools, garden styles, tips, projects, starting with your first master plan for your garden and many many other subjects.

House Plans & Garage Plans - Designconnection.com has over 2500 house plans and over 430 garage plans to choose from!

Landscape Design From About.com A resource for landscape design tips and yard maintenance. Focus on making landscape design comprehensible, inexpensive, easier and fun for the do-it-yourselfer.

Landscaping designs, kitchen designs: this web site is ideal for people who are designing, remodelling, renovating, or redecorating any part of their home or garden, are surrounded by choice and need some sound advice.

NELDHA For those of us who garden in New England,

MyLandscapes Landscape & garden design in London: contemporary solutions for your outdoor space.

Garden Plans by My Shade Garden

http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ldplants/ This extensive site on landscape plants presents information on 800 mostly woody landscape plants, listed by pages of genera (that are a bit overly long), which are cross-listed by common name. Each plant has a series of high quality images on plant habit, leaves, flowers and frequently fruit, seeds and stem features. There is also an "info" link containing

Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project The Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project is part of the National Park Service Volunteers-in-the-Parks Program. This is the collection of Donald Davidson, who traveled through the parks in 1999 through 2002 painting on location

Do-it-yourself Landscape design How-to guides, ideas, tutorials, tips, and resources on the many aspects of landscape design.

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Sheffield School of Interior Design Free monthly interior design tips from one of the world's largest interior design schools.

Garden Designer Quite a large site with lots of info for the begining garden designer

LetsDigIt.com, a new gardening website.   LetsDigIt.com moves through the process of design and construction of one particular garden, transforming it into a tranquil paradise, which will hopefully inspire and capture your imagination, perhaps helping you to transform your own garden in some way. 

Care of Cut Flowers Flowers are living things and continue their development after harvesting. With a little bit of care, you can enjoy your flowers for a long time. Some basic tips will help you extend their live and beauty considerably:

Handling Cut Flowers A fresh flower is still a living specimen even though it has been cut from the plant. Its maximum potential vase life, is short. There are many impinging forces that can interact to reduce fresh-flower vase life.

From NC State University A&T State Cooperative Extension index on Landscaping many are in PDF format, includes bed preparation, fertilization, selection, installation, weed control and more.

Basic Principles of Landscape Design

EPA Green Landscaping with Native Plants Landscaping with native wildflowers and grasses improves the environment. Natural landscaping brings a taste of wilderness to urban, suburban, and corporate settings by attracting a variety of birds, butterflies and other animals.

Gardentree Articles, before & after Photos, getting started on designing, a library and more

Oxford College of Garden Design Offering courses to budding amateurs and prospective professionals, the OCGD is one of the top contemporary garden design colleges.

From the Garden with P. Allen Smith Television host & professional garden designer provides tips from his daily gardening reports that are practical and useful guides to better gardening.

Landscape Architecture Virtual Library A very thorough and wide-ranging resource of links to garden and landscape oriented businesses, publications, colleges, software, events, and information.

ASLA - LandNet The American Society of Landscape Architects LandNet homepage is mostly a professionals-oriented page.

Association Of Professional Landscape Designers

Planning the Home Landscape A very good article by Extension Landscape horticulturist Willam C. Welch.

Design Principles in Garden-Making Since the space that the garden occupies is three-dimensional, the starting point of design is to get inside that space and create it from within. Imagine being inside a piece of sculpture. The developing space needs to evolve to accommodate the use, comfort and pleasure of its creator. The design elements are then employed to determine the way space will be perceived. All artists- photographers, painters, weavers, sculptorsÖand yes, garden-makersÖuse these same principles to create something magical.

Lawn & Garden: Landscape Plan Landscaping is a lot of work and can cost a lot of money. For these reasons, most do-it-yourselfers go with a 3 to 5 year landscape plan. That way the work and cost can be spread out over a few years. A good plan is essential in landscaping. Without it, you'll end up wasting a lot of time and money.

Dig Magazine has a collection of articles of Garden Design.