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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.

Container Gardens

Circular Brickwork "Container" Garden

Here is a view of a brickwork and riverstone container.

Detail of container with wood feature, summer wildflowers and ginger.

Detail with blue-eyed grass, ferns and summer wildflowers

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Corner Brickwork Container Garden

Here is a view of the complete corner container garden.

Notice the use of river stones and rocks, which add addtional texture and interest.

Detail of variously textured stones

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Container Gardens for a Deck

Portable container gardens add interest to this otherwise empty edge of a deck.

Grasses, wood and stone features are added around the initial garden.

Another detail of rocks, riverstones and containers. The attractive purple flower is an aster.

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Container gardens can temporarily add addtional plants and interest to established wildflower gardens.

Click here to see our larger stone projects

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Small Gardens

This small, newly planted, triangular-shaped garden gets open shade, or filtered sunlight.

Here is the same garden the following June. Foxglove beardtongue, spiderwort, prairie sundrops, and thimbleweed are all in bloom.

Here is the same garden in August. The blazing star and spiderwort have finished blooming, the purple coneflower is now in bloom and the goldenrods and asters are in bud.

Another view: the stiff goldenrod is about to bloom. The delicate grass in the front is side-oats grama.

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A Small But Lively Butterfly Garden

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.

Here is the same garden in midsummer. The Rosinweed and Cup-plant are now in full bloom.

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A Modest Rain Garden

This small rain garden, featuring native wetland plants and an alien grass, was planted immediately below the downspout.

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A Small Parkway Garden in Oak Park

This parkway garden is located near Barrie Park in south Oak Park, IL. The parkway is large and wide and gets full sun.

The secret of its success is to use short plants.

We used mostly clump-forming plants for all seasons.

Detail of decorative grass

A rock, brick and log feature adds additional texture.

Here is the same parkway garden two years later. Notice how the plants have matured.

This garden was featured in the Winter, 2007 Chicago Wilderness Magazine. Click here for details.

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This small garden is located in a sunny patch of front yard in Oak Park.

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A Small Yard on the North Side of Chicago

This small garden gets full sun and is located on the south side of the porch. The plant to the far left is spiderwort..

 

The north side of the garden has a raised bed and rain garden features, including moisture loving plants. Water comes from the downspout at the side of the house.

 

This plant, prairie blazing star, was planted to replace a cement structure that held a light.

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A Tiny Garden in downtown Chicago

This small garden is growing in extreme shade.It was planted on the north side of a three-story greystone in downtown Chicago.

 

There isn't much sun because the neighbors on either side of this lot have large trees in their front yards.

 

Another view of the small garden

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