http://www.design-gardens.com/Design-gardens-blog.html The Garden Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the design-gardens.com Web site. Subscribe here. en-us Design gardens Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:23:20 GMT Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:23:20 GMT design-gardens.com http://www.design-gardens.com/index.html Design Gardens are experts in garden design and landscaping and are geared to assist you in adding value to your house. Options to improve your garden include free garden design info, pre-designed ... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:23:18 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-design.html Successful garden design is achieved through correct design principles. Design your garden under our guidance, and have a professionally landscaped garden. Our step by step garden design approach... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:23:56 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/landscaping-ideas.html Free landscape design, ideas, illustrations and pictures are used in an unique approach to boost your garden design abilities. Free garden design ideas and various landscaping ideas... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:17:37 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/container-garden-design.html Learn how container garden design requires two levels of design. On the macro level the containers are designed to fit into the overall garden and house landscape. On the micro level the content... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:05 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/winter-berries.html Cold and blistery day in Keswick Ontario and finally the wind died down and I snapped a picture of snow on the berries of my burning bush. Picture Sun, 04 May 2008 20:50:06 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/spring-beauty.html After the very heavy snowfall in Toronto, I thought I would never see my spring garden this season. But as powerful as Mother Nature is, and reminder Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:25:22 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/i-can-still-show-you-how-pretty-a-cat-can-be.html This beautiful feline spends most of her time hunting around the house and on the very rare occasion will she allow a picture to show just how Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:23:34 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/irrigation-system.html An irrigation system takes care of the responsibility of watering a garden. Irrigation is essential for proper plant care. Get the information you need and learn how to design an irrigation system Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:08:14 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-irrigation-system.html Garden irrigation system installation is not complex, and can be successfully done if a few practical aspects are kept in mind. Better irrigation will be achieved if these aspects are noted during... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:56:14 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/master-where-are-you.html Pup looking to the ocean for his master perhaps a boater or Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:09:45 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/gardening-links.html Gardening links are provided to assist you in getting additional resources for your garden design and landscaping. An effort has been made to provide quality gardening and landscaping links. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:57:37 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-tiger.html This is Gypsy. Gypsy has claimed our garden as her own personal tabby sized jungle. Snapped this shot while she was resting amongst the lilies. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:31:41 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/photo-contest.html Enter our free photo contest and win one of two fabulous wall fountains. The contest has two divisions, one for your garden pictures and the other for your favorite pet photo. It is easy to enter... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:34:48 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/pet-photo-contest.html Enter our free pet photo contest and to win a fabulous wall fountain. The contest has two divisions, one for your garden photo and the other for your favorite pet photo. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:31:07 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-pictures.html Enter our free garden pictures contest and to win a fabulous wall fountain. The contest has two divisions, one for your garden photo and the other for your favorite pet photo. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:22:49 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-pictures-winners.html My garden pictures and pet photo contest was quite a difficult to judge with so many wonderful submissions received. To remain objective, our judges judged the entries by ... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:11:25 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/majestic-rock-gardens.html My favorite garden is the rock garden of the Royal Botanical Gardens located in Burlington, Canada. This is one of the best views. Standing on the Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:51:00 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/my-gardens-focal-point.html My garden's focal point now looks really good since the plants have grown. Notice the backdrop to the focal point and how the plants in the foreground Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:49:54 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/rose-garden1.html I just bought a land. I am hoping that soon I will build my own home and design my rose garden. I love roses and I want the garden to be a magic place Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:54:35 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/crosseyed-cat.html Daniel is a beautiful 3yr old Flame point Himalayian persian . He has a tendancy to look down his nose at you when he's trying to figure something out Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:57:28 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/natures-mystery.html This was taken at the park my daughter just got married in ....Fred Howard Park in Tarpon Springs, Florida. This was a very interesting tree and I Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:44:24 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/serenity-at-hollis-gardens-in-lakeland.html This was taken at Hollis Gardens in Lakeland, Florida. It is quite beautiful to go and walk through .....there is usually soft music playing and there Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:42:07 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/natures-miracles-at-fred-howard-park.html This is another picture taken where my daughter got married recently at Fred Howard Park. The butterfly's were all around that day....A sign of good Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:39:03 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/garden-wedding.html This is picture of the spot my daughter had her garden wedding ceremony in August @ Fred Howard Park in Tarpon Springs, Florida. It was a small Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:36:04 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/nah-nah-nah-nah-nah.html Sitting outside in the yard, our dog Rebel, just looked like he was sticking his tongue out at us. It was too funny! And luckily the camera got a cute Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:32:52 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/will-you-bring-me-home-something-please-.html Our dog, Rebel, jumped up and sat on the couch as my husband was leaving to go to the store. He put his head down and rested it on the cushion. Since Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:31:13 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/dog-treat.html Every time Rebel goes out into the yard he always brings the bone with him. He is forever chewing them up ! He can't seem to get enough of them! This Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:28:12 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/pleasedont-stop-.html We took our dog, Rebel, for a walk at the park and sat down at a picnic bench for a moment. He jumped on the picnic table, then my husband started Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:24:40 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/curious-kitten.html When I first brought Tigi home he was shy and preferring his own company. Now he must see, do and examine everything that catches his eye. Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:42:45 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/doggone-tired.html My JRT, Ryder usually curls up into a ball to sleep. On this day he decided to stretch right out. He was asleep half in his daybed and half out onto Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:40:51 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/grin-and-bear-it.html I was trying to get my JRT's attention to get a nice photo of him in our yard. Pleading with him to just let me get one picture of him paying Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:54:15 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/monkeying-around.html My JRT, Ryder just loved this little monkey. It screeched like a monkey when it was shaken. He went through a few of these things, he lost interest Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:53:22 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/holey-socks.html My JRT, Ryder loves my husband Paul's socks. Clean or dirty it didn't seem to matter, he is always trying to steal them. I decided to go through Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:52:39 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/say-cheese.html I was taking photos of my JRT and jokingly I said Say cheese. What a surprise when Ryder decided to give a little grin. This is by far one of my Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:51:35 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/lovely-dove.html There was a dove's nest in the crook of our maple tree and inside were two babies and their mom. I took this photo right after the father coaxed one Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:49:42 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/natures-beauty.html I was hiking with my niece, Michelle, when we came upon some baby raccoons. We went and got our cameras and took some pictures of them. I love this Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:47:45 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/puppy-love.html My whole life I have wanted a dog of my own. Having children and working kept me too busy, I didn't think it would be fair to the pooch. At 40, I was Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:38:10 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/doggone-cool.html I just couldn't resist trying these sunglasses on my JRT, Ryder! My confession is that I just love to photograph my pooch! I must have taken a dozen Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:35:44 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/powder-squeezes-into-the-giftbox.html My cat Powder is always checking things out and getting into things...he's very curious. One day I caught him trying to squeeze himself into this Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:28:18 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/spiderwort-tradescantia.html This is my spiderwort in bloom. I love the green of the leaves and the flowers are a very nice shade of purple. It blooms for a long Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:23:54 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/rebel-with-a-cause.html Our dog, Rebel, was just sitting on the couch and was so happy that all attention was upon him. It looked like he was smiling so I took his Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:19:30 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/perennial-rock-garden.html My husband, Paul and I put a lot of back breaking work into this rock garden. We lugged these big rocks from out Uncle's farm. Dug the earth by hand, Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:41:29 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/flashing-light-dianthus.html Here is flashing light dianthus in bloom. You can see sedum blooming yellow just at the edge. The red and yellow really compliment one Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:39:54 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/weather-cat.html Hi my name is Cheeto. I get very nervous and jittery when we have bad weather in Arkansas. So when the weather gets to being bad I get on the Internet Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:12:28 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/floral-beauty.html While on vacation in Texas I came upon this beautiful flower. It was absolutely breathtaking. Luckily ,I had my camera in my pocket and was able to Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:39:07 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/color-burst.html Just loved this flower ! If only they could live forever, just like the Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:36:08 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/reaching-for-the-sky.html I came across these flowers and thought they were really pretty. I had to squat down to take the picture and did not realize that at the angle I took Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:31:18 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/sleepy-dog.html Not much to tell on this ....he was a very sleepy dog when I took this Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:25:47 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/moon-flower.html I tried for years to grow some moon flowers. I was so happy when I finally got it to Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:27:12 GMT http://www.design-gardens.com/beeutiful.html I was taking pictures of my flowers when a bee landed on one. I thought it made a nice Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:25:44 GMT