Garden Design


  1. Improvements

    Blithewold &bull Yesterday

    A little more than a month ago in a post about potting bench perfection I mentioned that our potting bench was in a sorry state and that the windows above it were drafty heat-leakers. No longer true! Gail and I… Full Story »


  2. Tucked under a blanket

    Blithewold &bull Jan 23, 2012

    Snow finally fell in measurable amounts (about 9) over the weekend forcing us to take life a little more slowly. I think that's what I love best about a snow days: permission to slow down and tuck in. Luckily I… Full Story »

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  3. Boost Your Garden Design Skills and Save Money at a Flower and Garden Show

    Fine Gardening &bull Jan 16, 2012

    Attending a major flower and garden show can be a lot like grocery shopping while hungry. Here's how you can "purchase with purpose" while getting the most out of your visit. Full Story »

  4. Breaking the Rules: Ecological Design for the Real World with Larry Weaner

    New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Jan 12, 2012

    Join Larry Weaner on January 19 for an NYBG presentation on eco-friendly garden design. Full Story »

  5. Winter inspiration

    Blithewold &bull Jan 10, 2012

    The other day Gail brought in an old book, Designing with Plants by the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury. As I flipped through it, a little lightbulb blinked. Oudolf says the best way to approach garden design is… Full Story »

  6. Stone Thoughts

    The Vermont Gardener &bull Jan 8, 2012

    One inch of granular, washcloth-wiped-clean snow on the ground from sometime after midnight. Stone is an important part of garden design to me. I am criticized for my backwards approach to gardening but the stone I use for garden accent,… Full Story »


  7. Bringing Garden Design Indoors

    Horticulture Magazine &bull Dec 6, 2011

    If you know someone who is homebound over the holidays, this is an idea that will bring a smile to their face. Garden Logic's online gardening design program! To make winter pass more quickly, many gardeners tend a few houseplants.… Full Story »


  8. Trough love

    Blithewold &bull Dec 6, 2011

    Ever since Gail and I went on a bus trip to Wave Hill - eight or so years ago - we've been coveting hypertufa troughs. A year or two after that trip we each made a couple, then a year later a couple more. After that, Fred and Dan made some, including… Full Story »


  9. Hypericum's Hypercolored Hoorah For 2011

    Clay and Limestone &bull Dec 6, 2011

    I love love love love this plant, dear Gail! I have one Sunburst, but have moved it so many times it hasn't had a chance to settle down and multiply. I had the same hypericum but it nearly took over… Full Story »

  10. What Makes a House a Home: Gemma and Andrew Ingalls

    Garden Design &bull Nov 30, 2011

    We've come to our final week of our What Makes a House a Home posts. We hope you've enjoyed the past ten weeks of posts from some of our favorite bloggers, sharing how they incorporate plants and nature into their… Full Story »


  11. Concepts of sacredness and beauty

    Garden Visit - Blog &bull Nov 26, 2011

    It is likely that the history of Japanese gardens finds its origins in Shinto traditions. In particular the sacred nature of rocks: "from the ancient remains of rock arrangement" of the fifth century AD, we find a resemblance to existing… Full Story »


  12. Exquisite Little Jewel Boxes

    Garden Wise Guy &bull Nov 22, 2011

    Two very talented landscape designers invited me to Eye of the Day Garden Design Center in Carpinteria last week - something about "new demonstration gardens." I smelled a story. And, oh, the plants! Since the earliest manifestation of Eye of… Full Story »


  13. Is it garden design? Is it fine art? Is it conceptual art? Is it beautiful?

    Garden Visit - Blog &bull Nov 20, 2011

    Proust said that art with ideas, (by which I think he means art which flaunts/depends on its ideas), is like an item with the price tag left on. Perhaps something like this is not much else except the price tag.… Full Story »

  14. In the Magazines Nov-Dec 2011

    GardenDesignOnline &bull Nov 17, 2011

    Fine Gardening Dec 2011As usual, the magazine is packed with articles about plants -- and how to use them. In this issue:*Ornamental grasses, and combo plants to go along with them.*Simple ways to improve the look of your planting beds.*Plants… Full Story »


  15. Channeling Julie Moir Messervy

    Blithewold &bull Nov 14, 2011

    She makes garden design look so easy. Last Thursday for the second time in exactly a decade Julie Moir Messervy enraptured the Garden Design Luncheon crowd with her graciousness, easy-going wit, energy, style, and utterly pragmatic approach to design. For busy homeowners she promotes outdoor living spaces capable… Full Story »

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  16. Garden Design Online - 6th Anniversary

    GardenDesignOnline &bull Nov 11, 2011

    My subjects have since expanded to the environment and sustainability, as that's the only way for all of us to go in the future. Aside from this blog, I'm a certified professional landscape designer, I'm on the Board of Directors… Full Story »

  17. Garden design and the history of art

    Garden Visit - Blog &bull Nov 8, 2011

    I really enjoyed this blog and the saying 'a picture paints a thousand words' is so right here, these illustrations really explain these styles so clearly and well. I also agree totally that the categorisation of gardens through the reign… Full Story »

  18. Tweemo: Have We Finally Reached Style Overload?

    Garden Design &bull Nov 1, 2011

    Last week, Katie Mendelson, the assistant editor of GARDEN DESIGN, came over to my desk and we were chatting about a bunch of new publications that we had recently seen. I sighed and said, "I am so over this style," referring to the beautifully styled, carefully photographed (and Photoshopped) look to appear like a treasured family snapshot dug out from the 1960s, where everything is just so sweet and lovely. I guess so," I said. But then I thought about it and… Full Story »

  19. LongHouse Reserve Planters: On & Off the Ground Competition Winners

    Garden Design &bull Oct 25, 2011

    For the past four years, LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, New York-a Garden Conservancy affiliate and center for "living with art in all forms"-has held Planters: ON&OFF the Ground, a congenial competition designed to stir the imagination of the horticulture… Full Story »

  20. Garden design: A guide to curb appeal

    Christian Science Monitor - Diggin It &bull Oct 25, 2011

    This landscape was designed to have bright color visible from the curb. Flowers in pots, as well as on each side of the walkway make the approach to the house very welcoming. As you walk up your drive, consider what others see. Is it an expression of who… Full Story »

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