Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
First there was news that head White House floral designer Laura Dowling had left her job a few weeks ago, with no fanfare, and no one knew why. There were [...]
**Trigger Warning*** This is a rant, and the images that follow may be unpleasant to some. They certainly are to ME. A bit of background to set the stage: Los [...]
a cozy moment in a garden that echoes the living room inside. Is this too much? Holy Sissinghurst, Batman!!! There is a way of making gardens that [...]
Image by San Francisco Planning Department. This year's international Park(ing) Day falls on September 19, a mere two weeks from now. On that day, individuals, groups, and businesses [...]
Once a fan of Garden Design Magazine, I came to dislike it enough to ask for my unused subscription money back after it changed its target audience to the rich [...]
David Culp with co-author Adam Levine and photographer Rob Cardillo Not long ago I confessed that I was scheming to see David Culp's Pennsylvania garden, made glorious in [...]
From Thomas Rainer's talk about designing with native plants at the Lahr Native Plant Symposium. Thomas's myths about native plants: 1. That native plants are drought-tolerant, requiring less supplemental watering, [...]
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on [...]
For the past couple years, I’ve been fighting a feeling that I’m being left behind by the gardening world as part of a forgotten minority. The hottest trends have passed [...]
At last, two garden writers who give voice to what real gardeners everywhere have been saying for years. And it’s no surprise that the voice-givers are Scott and Lauren Ogden [...]
When I happened upon the blog of landscape architect Thomas Rainer my first thought was: Why isn't he guest-posting on GardenRant? Or alternatively, is his blog the Rant of landscape [...]
I got to hear plantsman and American Meadow author John Greenlee talk to the landscape architects recently and learned that what he designs to great effect aren't really meadows as [...]
