Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
When winter begins to end with the snowdrops, I start looking forward. And then winter drags on a bit as far as flowers are concerned, so I go on, looking [...]
I love a good strong opinion. Something robust, well considered, and even backed up with a few facts and figures just to round it off. For example it is my [...]
If you’ve ever thought of edging a flower bed with proper professional stuff, you may have been astonished to find that the makers of garden edging assume you live in [...]
We are surrounded by trees at Veddw Garden and when we first came we thought it was a super idea to grow rambler roses up them. So whenever we could afford a [...]
I've recently noticed a gentle increase in the number of well-known and fairly well-known garden designers championing the work of professional gardeners. Podcasts, articles and social media; there's sense that [...]
An apology: I went on a proper holiday (a week!) for the first time in many years, and it's left me short of time to write a post for you. [...]
When I moved to this yard 14 years ago I replaced the back lawn with mixed borders of trees, shrubs and perennials, deeper-than-usual borders like this one (coz, no more [...]
Update on cues to care: I wrote this article for the members of my townhouse co-op as we face our next spring yard inspection. Here cues to care are prioritized, [...]
Garden design is many things: art, science, traveling through space (and time), but primarily it is an exercise in problem solving. My knot garden 2.0 - far more sensible. [...]
Yep. We’ve actually made this garden and then remade it three times. Fortunately now the structure seems likely to remain. Can’t be sure of the planting. Those bricks are wonderful [...]
L: a garden near Philadelphia. R: a side yard in the DC area, and a hydrangea-lined brick path in Buffalo. My final bunch of photos of gardens tagged [...]
I'm a nut for benches. For seating of any kind, but especially benches, like the one above I've had since 1986, when I surprised myself by paying $350 for it. [...]
