# Blog, page 2

> Older articles on designing, building and looking after your garden. Page 2 of the tuinontwerp.app blog.

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Last updated: 2026-09-28

Practical guides for every step: laying out, building, planting and looking after your garden. For an ordinary Dutch garden, measured to your own plot.

## Latest articles

- [Common hornbeam: planting, hedges and pruning](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/common-hornbeam) - Common hornbeam (Carpinus betulus): a native tree, 15 to 25 metres, often grown as a hedge. How to identify, plant and trim it, and which bird eats the seeds. (2026-09-28)
- [Common juniper: where it grows, price and pruning](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/common-juniper) - Common juniper (Juniperus communis): a native conifer 4 to 8 m tall that stays green and pricks. Where it fits, what it costs, how to plant and what goes wrong. (2026-09-28)
- [Common sea lavender: how to recognise and grow it](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/common-sea-lavender) - Common sea lavender (Limonium vulgare) is a native perennial 10 to 50 cm tall with blue-violet flowers from July to October. Where it fits and what it costs. (2026-09-28)
- [Common yew: where it grows, pruning and poison](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/common-yew) - Common yew (Taxus baccata): a native evergreen conifer up to 18 m tall that copes even with deep shade. Where it fits, how to prune it and what is poisonous. (2026-09-28)
- [Cornelian cherry: early flowers, red berries and care](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/cornelian-cherry) - Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) is a native shrub of 2.5 to 4 metres that flowers yellow in February. Where it fits, what it costs, how to plant and care for it. (2026-09-28)
- [Creeping Jenny: a native ground cover for damp soil](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/creeping-jenny) - Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia) is a native ground cover 5 to 15 cm tall with yellow flowers. Where it fits, what it costs and how to care for it. (2026-09-28)
- [Dog rose: planting and care of the native wild rose](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/dog-rose) - Dog rose (Rosa canina): native wild rose, 1 to 3 metres tall, flowering May to July, red hips into February. Where it fits, planting, pruning, problems. (2026-09-28)
- [Field scabious: planting, care, bees and price](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/field-scabious) - Field scabious (Knautia arvensis) is a native perennial 30 cm to 1 m tall that flowers from June to September. Where it fits, what it costs, how to plant it. (2026-09-28)
- [Flowering rush as a pond plant: position and care](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/flowering-rush-pond-plant) - Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus) is a native marginal plant, 30 cm to 1.5 m tall, with light pink umbels. Where it fits, what it costs and how to plant it. (2026-09-28)
- [Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae): pond care and price](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/frogbit-hydrocharis-morsus-ranae) - Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae): a native floating pond plant with white flowers of 2 to 3 cm, June to August. Identification, planting, price and problems. (2026-09-28)
- [Great mullein: recognise, plant and care for it](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/great-mullein) - Great mullein (Verbascum thapsus) is a native biennial up to 2 m tall. How to recognise it, where it grows, what it costs and what to do when things go wrong. (2026-09-28)
- [Greater celandine: identifying, planting and care](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/greater-celandine) - Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) is a native perennial 30 to 90 cm tall with yellow flowers and orange sap. How to identify, plant and care for it. (2026-09-28)

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## Topics

- [Garden design](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/tuinontwerp) - How to lay a garden out: dimensions, sight lines, and the order you make decisions in.
- [Construction](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/aanleg) - From drawing to garden: groundwork, drainage, foundations, and what you can do yourself.
- [Sun & shade](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/schaduw-en-zon) - How much direct sunlight each spot in your garden gets, measured on your own parcel.
- [Seasons](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/seizoenen) - What there is to do each month, and when your garden looks its best.
- [Materials](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/materialen) - Paving, fencing and hard surfaces: what they cost and how long they last.
- [Inspiration](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/inspiratie) - Gardens and styles to take ideas from, with what they ask for in practice.
- [Plants](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/plants) - Every plant that is native to the Netherlands and fits a garden, species by species: position, planting, pruning, diseases, and the insects and birds it supports.
- [Maintenance](https://tuinontwerp.app/en/blog/category/onderhoud) - Pruning, feeding and keeping up, with as little work per year as possible.