Meadow garden design

A meadow garden is literally what is it: a garden with plants that are native for the area. Here are ideas to design one.

There are no shortcuts to creating a meadow—but if you follow James Hitchmough's guidelines you can create your own naturalistic landscape. Here's how.

Water restrictions and environmental concerns have caused many homeowners to ditch their traditional grass lawns and opt for more eco-friendly options. Replace your lawn with a native plant garden, add beds & borders, permeable hardscape, and other no-mow alternatives.

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A tapestry of resilient native species is the foundation of this design approach. Learn more about ecological gardening here.

Butter Wakefield's Guide to Creating a Wildflower Meadow • The Home Page

Create your meadow garden with exclusive design tips, lessons, and inspiration from the nation's top designers.

10 Ideas for Designing a Meadow Garden Dream up a meadow in your own backyard with these top planting and design tips What Is a Meadow Garden? A meadow garden is an environmentally-friendly alternative to a turf lawn. Primarily planted with unthirsty grasses, meadows get added visual interest from wildflowers and natives. And gardeners who favor a light touch will love the low maintenance of a meadow garden: poor soil is actually favorable to meadow plants, so no compost, fertilizer, or…

Today we’re visiting Haliburton, Ontario, to see Justin Dumitrescu’s garden. The garden is ten years old and features mostly native plants in an informal, meadow-like design. Stepping-stones lead through a […]

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Looking to reduce or replace your grass lawn? Try eco-friendly options like wildflowers, clover, or fescue mixes suited to zones 3 to 9 in Canada and the U.S.

Many positive things can be said for planting a meadow garden, but meadows aren't one size fits all. Learn elements of different meadow garden designs.

Transform your boring lawn into a vibrant wildflower meadow with these 12 easy steps. Discover how to attract pollinators and beautify your landscape!

In an extract from Ian Hodgson's ‘New Wild Garden’, he explains how to sow a meadow garden using annual seeds, perfect for a small space

Have you considered changing your lawn into a wildflower meadow? Once established the wildflower area will be a great attraction to bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects as well as easier to maintain than a traditional lawn. For success with a wildflower meadow it is important to consider the following: When a lawn is sown it is generally at about 40 grams to the square metre. A meadow is sown at about 4 grams, which is 10% of the above rate. Meadow mixtures are a mixture of…

This space proves that more structure leads to greater appeal. See how an award-winning landscape designer created a stylized meadow garden.

This space proves that more structure leads to greater appeal. Find out what plants an award-winning garden designer used to create his stylized meadow.