Courtyards, tiny front yards, meditation gardens - Do you have special places like these where you thought a wildflower garden wouldn’t fit? The good news is that you don’t need a huge amount of room for a native garden. Small native gardens will do just fine. Generally we use smaller plants and thoughtful design.
Art and Linda's Wildflowers offers gardens for small places, including containers and features for rooftops, decks and patios as well as special treats for the nooks and crannies of your life.
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Container gardens can also add more plants and interest to established wildflower gardens.
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This small fenced-in shady garden is located in Downtown Chicago at State and Division. Living at a busy intersection does not mean you cannot enjoy a peaceful comfortable place to sit and reflect. |
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The small shady front yards of two adjacent buildings were combined in one sweeping continuous landscape. |
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A small shady yard loaded with enjoyable features -- birdbaths, patio, raingarden, stone bench, barbeque grill and easy chairs. All anyone needs to relax after a hard days work at the Library. |
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A very teeny tiny very shady yard on Chicago's Northside. But being right in front of the kids' bedroom windows, the garden becomes an important part of their lives. |
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Watch this LaGrange garden change through the seasons. You don't need a lot of room to enjoy a lot of garden. A wide variety of plants attracts a wide variety of birds, butterflies and other insects. |
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Small sunny raingardens on either side of the front stairs welcome the owner and visitors every day. |
A Small But Lively Butterfly Garden
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This garden is located alongside a garage in Berwyn. The birds and butterflies will feast on the False Sunflower, Purple Coneflower, Rosinweed and Cup-plant. |
This garden has been on many landscape and garden walk tours.
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This recently planted small, shady garden on the corner of this townhouse brought lots of joy and pleasure to the happy owner. |
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A small sunny garden in Blue Island. The owners did not know what they were getting into. |
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This tiny front yard garden encompasses no more than fifty square feet. All kinds of perenials and ornamentals share the space with native wildflowers and grasses. This beautiful garden spot was created by Luis, our crew chief. |
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Even a very tiny place can present an opportunity for a nice wildflower garden. Click here to see more of this very small shady rain garden in the south side of Chicago. |
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This small rain garden (see downspout) was planted alongside a garage in Darien, Illinois in 2008. This photo shows the garden a year later in late May of 2009. See how well the Meadow Anemone, Anemone canadensis, (the small white flower) has done. Click here to see more of this small garden in Darien, Illinois. |
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This small shady garden had to fight the large Silver Maple tree for water, food and sunlight. However, with the owner's loving care and the Garden Gnomes special powers, this garden is doing quite well. Click here to see more of this small shday garden on the northside of Chicago, Illinois. |
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This horseshoe-shaped backyard garden belongs to nature photographer Mike MacDonald. Wildflowers, grasses and sedges have been planted for interest during all four seasons and to provide habitat for wildlife. Click
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