Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Pergolas in Daybreak, UT, outside Salt Lake City. A pergola in Maryland I saw way too much water-sucking landscaping when I was in Salt Lake City, [...]
Approach to the Pavilions. Photo credit: Iwan Baan, Glenstone Museum The DC area's biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum [...]
Remedy, by Joan Linder, located in Roswell Park Cancer Institute Can beautiful images of nature promote healing? Even healing from cancer? There is a British university study that [...]
In my quest for examples of low-maintenance, more eco-friendly civic landscapes, two libraries near me were recommended by Scott Aker, head of gardens at the National Arboretum and a former resident [...]
Help! My town really could use some examples of alternatives to bedding annuals for its civic landscapes, alternatives that are more sustainable and better-looking to the modern eye. (I know, [...]
The townhouse I moved into 6 years ago came with a rather junky spot just beyond my back yard, marring my view from the house, porch and garden. So began [...]
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
Louisville's Olmsted Parks Conservancy photo. I drove to Cherokee Park’s Big Rock Pavilion, adjacent to Beargrass Creek, on Friday afternoon, anticipating a profusion of white bonesets, blue dayflowers [...]
Photo credit: Landscape Architecture Magazine. Rant readers know that we love Thomas Rainer’s work and his book Planting in a Post-Wild World (here’s Evelyn’s describing the aha’s she got [...]
I had the chance to hear a talk about the much-anticipated book Planting in a Post-Wild World by the authors, Thomas Rainer and Claudia West. I know I promised a book review and giveaway [...]
Here I am with everyone's favorite landscape architect Thomas Rainer before he and Claudia West spoke about their book Planting in a Post-Wild World yesterday in Oxford, Maryland. (Book review and [...]
