Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
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 [...]
It's everywhere. Various Chelsea Flower Show gardens this year included the newly fashionable weeds. Interestingly, I saw someone quoted as saying that that was ok because ‘it was [...]
Living in the DC area, it's been fun to blog about the White House gardens, a topic that now has its own category. I've included other presidential gardens, like the [...]
A posey of pinks with a ruff of hosta leaves. I’m pretty sure I began gardening so that I could pick flowers with impunity. Walking to school in [...]
And right then, before I can forget, I find my calendar app, scroll to some random date in August, and type, "Order more daffs."
A portrait of John Sales by Charles Hawes. I have just heard that John Sales died in December. This is very sad news to me, but may mean [...]
Gardens Illustrated is 30 years old this year. I have a first copy, dated April/May 1993. It came out every two months from then. That was a real, delightful game [...]
I don't know about YOU and the size of YOUR garden pots, but mine just aren't large enough to comfortably include what we're always told we should - a spikey [...]
