Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
Xeriscaping is not a new concept, but if you don’t reside in the Western US or another arid clime, you may be less familiar with it. Most broadly, xeriscaping refers [...]
Once you take gardening from a casual activity to a more serious pursuit, as a hobby or even a career, you become acutely aware of the role personal taste plays. [...]
I gather that people like lists. And it's true we have a perpetual 'garden list' at home. So I thought you might appreciate a list of the things we enjoyed [...]
I began my garden life reading Vita Sackville West and Christopher Lloyd. I named my first book in tribute to one of Lloyd's: The Well Tempered Garden. And early in [...]
"A garden that is all flowers is like a cake that is all icing." Most of you reading would call it frosting rather than icing, but the sentiment stands: foliage [...]
I'd planned a leisurely morning. A bit of gentle pottering around in my own garden, then out later to deal with something at a garden I look after. My phone [...]
The thing which lifts my spirits in the cold wet spring is first, a ray of sunshine, and second colour! And yes, that does include green. Spring green: But most [...]
We live fairly near The Laskett. So seeing it was open, we thought we'd have an afternoon out and went to visit. And we took lots of photos - so [...]
I'm absolutely amazed by how many plants there are. I know the plants in my garden well; I have paid for them and chose them above others. Yet every time [...]
This piece of mine was originally published in the Garden Design Journal in 2002. It seemed to me to be potentially useful to follow on from Marianne's last piece for [...]
Today, or rather tonight (as I have let my day get away from me), I wanted to pick up on a discussion in the comments section of a post that [...]
