Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
The Beth Chatto Symposium "Rewilding the Mind" showcased many of the leading European voices in ecological landscaping, and it's all available online, FREE! And I learned about it from Canadian [...]
They may not make for good photos, but sloping gardens offer a journey of changed perspectives. The King's garden at Highgrove is flat. Which made me think about the different [...]
We visited Highgrove so you don’t have to. An American tour guide once told me that Americans always want to visit The Laskett and Highgrove, so she takes them there [...]
This video from the Kew Mutual Improvement Society in the U.K. blew my mind a bit and I'm curious to see what you guys think. It's an online lecture by [...]
Entrance garden includes Hesperaloe parviflora, the pink flower seen here. It's a favorite of hummingbirds. I'm back with another Ed Snodgrass story, this one about a tour of [...]
We are plagued by garden designers in the UK. They are everywhere, telling us what to do and how to do it, and what plants to buy. Especially what plants [...]
I passed a gentleman sat with his wife. “There's not much colour” he remarked to her. I looked up, I looked one way and the other, I looked down. Colour [...]
In my recent post covering Henry Mitchell's advice about lawns and alternatives thereto, I promised to next share his ideas on designing gardens for lower maintenance, also from The Essential [...]
Garden visiting is one of the most important things a gardener can do. Getting out of our gardens to see what other people are up to is not an indulgence, [...]
Those who know me, know I don’t travel. And those who know me, know that there are very few gardens in Britain which I admire. But here is a garden [...]
A lawnless garden somewhere in DC. Finding myself with nothing handy to read at the pool, I picked up my extremely marked-up copy of Henry Mitchell's The Essential [...]
Being Helpful The Handsome Helper made a complaint recently when we were walking in the garden. When I complained about him complaining he told me that it was [...]
