Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
In the three weeks since I launched my latest project - a Lawnless Front Yards photo collection on Flickr - the response has been amazing, and so fun! Certainly compared [...]
Wrapping up their three-part email discussion -- annotated here with links and photographs -- Anne & Marianne move away from garden design and differences in technique to the rapidly changing [...]
No, I'm not referring to myself. Yes - we have a ruined cottage in the garden. Here: at 21 on the plan. I have to add a note about [...]
I've spent the last couple of days visiting gardens. Five gardens in two days is quite impressive, but not quite my record. My record was six. Three of these gardens [...]
From left, my former lawnless back yard on the cover of Evelyn Hadden's wonderful book - sadly, now out of print - and my former lawnless front yard in [...]
When a recent Instagram post on how to edit self-seeders by Marianne sparked some design pushback by Anne, they moved the mulch-rich exchange to email to wrangle over it in [...]
This is perhaps the most important part of the garden for me. It’s the view from the Conservatory and from the Terrace during the summer, when we gravitate to this [...]
Hostas do not look like this! And please don't try these in your "font yard." My friend Stephanie Fleming, the former owner of the Behnkes Nursery that closed [...]
When a recent Instagram post on how to edit self-seeders by Marianne sparked some design push back by Anne , they moved the exchange to email to wrangle over it [...]
Hard work does not make a great garden. It's just - hard work. Here goes: Charles removed a dripping window. We both removed a spiral staircase: Now it’s [...]
The National Arboretum's Friendship Garden in 2014 I recently confessed to being confused by the eco-design concept of matrix planting and intermingling, design strategies that I saw in [...]
Summer is coming and wild is still on the menu with a side of wind-swept and a dollop of scruffy. This is fine and well and good and most importantly, [...]
