empress of dirt: Virtual Garden Tour Round-Up

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Virtual Garden Tour Round-Up

Also see more tours here: 2007 Garden Tours


This was the first stop on a rural farm house and garden tour. When you know the garden is young and the plants are huge, there's got to be a secret ingredient involved.... [see more...]
The garden writer for the local paper kindly opens his garden once a year for everyone to have a look. This garden definitely has that WOW factor when you cross the threshold into the side and back gardens.... [see more...]
On this final part of the Hort Society tour, I saw this shed and knew I had to create the Garden Shed Hall of Fame. I'd spent so much time gushing over sheds, it was time to put them all together and show them off. An old inground swimming pool was transformed into a pond and garden.... [see more...]
Have you got a best side for photographs? Well, this pond doesn't. Any side is a good side. The plantings look beautiful from any angle. It's on a suburban lot and packed with fish. [see more...]
A 50' x 70' lot packed with really tall perennials, and a few secret pathways. Fantastic shed/sleeping cottage. Property is backed by a huge commercial storage building. [see more...]
Neat recycled doors, beautiful waterlily pond, and huge perennial/veggie combination bed. [see more...]
Sloping former farm property in the country overlooking a valley and river. [see more...]
Lovely sloped rock garden, huge lot overlooking a valley and river.[see more...]
Heavily wooded country lot with lots of ferns, greenery, and a river.[see more...]
Newly planted garden and pond with oodles of small stones, neat birdhouse, big beds.[see more...]
Three year-old small town garden with lots of charm.[see more...]
Huge garden at a garden nursery. How do they manage both the business and the garden? There's also a 3 minute film clip of the gardens as well.[see more...]
This secret garden on the edge of some woods overlooks farm fields. It's carefully guarded by this dragon.[see more...]
A small city garden with huge trees, flagstone paths, a little fish pond and nice deep borders.[see more...]
This front yard English cottage style garden wasn't even on the tour but we all had to go have a look.[see more...]
My visit to Hampton Court Gardens in England (May 2005)[see more...]
Three year-old garden in a small town on a fairly small sloping lot. Lots of garden art/junk charm.[see more...]
These homeowners built their dream home in a new small town subdivision and then purchased the adjoining lot. They have a massive veggie garden and lovely back sloped garden and pond. The man said it's a 'full-time executive position' taking care of all that garden. His wife did not seem as thrilled with the volume of work....[see more...]
Here's a tour of my own garden from 2003 and then a update in 2006. A lot changed in those three years.... [2003 tour] [2006 tour] [2008 tour]