How to Bring Dutch Garden Design Style into your Landscape
Garden design is renowned for its innovative and aesthetic approaches. The people known for their tulip fields and meticulous landscaping, take pride in their expertise in garden design. Dutch garden designers are recognized worldwide for their ability to ...
How to Design a Garden Layout Using Shapes To Inspire Your Design
I recently met up with a couple of my former instructors from when I attended the English Gardening School. Robin Templar Williams and Moira Farnham were running a design seminar at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, and given they were so close to my new home I ...
Building a Dead Hedge: Healing the Land and Creating a Living Barrier
Many of you might recall the ongoing saga with our neighbors—the ones who hired (and I use that term loosely) a so-called logger to clear-cut their property and, in the process, take down 15 of our trees. It was brutal. The woods, once a natural boundary, ...
A Landscape Designer’s Ideas for Better Kids Play Areas
You know what I dislike more than anything else in the garden? Isolated garden play areas where some sort of crummy swing set thing is thoughtlessly plopped down to simultaneously compartmentalize kids away – but then, also, not away. The worst offenders ...
A Wooded Side yard Makeover to Restore the Landscape with Native Plants
A wooded side yard makeover – A native plant landscape before and after – this paved area is going to become a natural garden. Heather, over at Restoring the Landscape is not one of those all talk, no action people. Her website covers a wide range of to ...
Desert Gardens and Living Ocotillo Fences – Fouquieria splendens
I recently discovered a unique garden feature of the desert southwest – the ocotillo fence. The Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) is native to the desert southwest. It is a unique shrubby cactus-like plant (though it isn’t technically a cactus) that can be ...