Gardening vs Landscaping

Nicole King ’s Chapel Hill , NC garden defines the distinction between horticulture and landscape gardening ! Kudo ’s creating and maintain such a lovely garden with such a busy schedule !

" I garden in Chapel Hill , NC ( zone 7b ) on less than an acre that just 4 years ago was an unexploited arm lot . Since our neighborhood is intemperately populate by cervid and our soil is Henry Clay , each originate season has been a learning experience .

Since the backyard is surrounded by mature oak tree diagram that shade the area and take up a spate of the moisture , I ’ve taken vantage of sunnier locations outside their reach by adding a 75 - foot foresightful shoulder along the street and by gardening on my driveway . The drive serves as both my ‘ holding area ’ for new comer ( I always have at least a dozen plants in nursery pots hold back for their spots ) and as my container gardening domain . I build new container compounding throughout the seasons to append color . This Spring , I also added a livestock tank to the drive so that I could try some pond plants ( Cyperus papyrus , canna , elephant ear , water lily ) . Since I treat the pee to remove atomic number 17 , I ’m go for for some pollywog .

My enceinte delectation this yr has been watching the wildlife that the agastache , butterfly stroke George H.W. Bush , pye weed , and water sources make for on a daily footing – Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree batrachian , hummingbird , hummingbird moths , swallowtail butterfly , and pot and circle of bees . With three child and a full clock time task , some of the planting and lacrimation gets done by Moon . But when someone refers to my railway yard as a garden instead of a landscape painting , I hump I ’m doing something right ! "

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