Design

Using Color Echoes to Work Edibles Into Your Landscape (Garden Designers Roundtable)

February 22, 2011 32 comments
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Ivette Soler’s new book, The Edible Front Yard, tackles the question of how to incorporate edibles and veggies into your landscape without having the whole thing look messy, or rigidly planned like a farm. How do you do that? She explains: The successful edible front garden all comes down to the right plant in the [...]

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Designing a Landscape for Color Blind People: The Garden Designers Roundtable on Therapy and Healing

October 26, 2010 50 comments
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People who are color blind make up about 8% of men and .5% of women, and of those people, the vast majority aren’t actually color blind, it’s more that they see colors differently. Though we think of color blindness as seeing the world in black and white, the most common form of color blindness is [...]

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The Evolution of a Gardener: Finding the Middle Ground Between Neat and Natural

October 20, 2010 24 comments
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Debbie’s post over at Garden of Possibilities was a catalyst for me to really think over an issue I’ve been having a lot lately – the Neat VS Natural debate. It’s not a debate I’ve been having with anyone else, it’s more been an internal struggle. You see, the more I learn about gardening, the [...]

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Are You a Drifter?

August 14, 2010 6 comments
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As a garden designer, many of my design requests from clients come with a list of plants as long as my arm that I must somehow cram include in the garden plan. Being an inveterate plant addict lover myself, I always find it fun to help these folks fit each of their plant friends into [...]

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Review of The Nonstop Garden by Stephanie Cohen and Jennifer Benner

May 29, 2010 4 comments
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Is the word “garden” a noun or a verb? If much of the joy you take in your garden is that you get to play, experiment, fiddle, and tend to it, then this is the book for you. Stephanie Cohen has put together a thoughtful design primer for gardeners who love to garden, and want [...]

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Book Review: The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden by Valerie Easton

April 24, 2010 5 comments
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You’d think that a landscape designer who also does landscape maintenance would be dismissive of the whole low-maintenance gardening thing. After all, there’s a negative impression of low-maintenance gardens as being dull, static, lifeless places devoid of wildlife or any personal character. But there is a balance in a well-designed garden between hardscape (the patios, [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable on Color: in Which We Bring Some Semblance of Order to Your Crazy Busy Garden

March 23, 2010 23 comments
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If you’re a plant geek, you’ve probably fallen prey to the “one of this, one of that” style of gardening. You know how it is – you walk out into your garden one day and realize that your beloved plant friends are all clamoring for individual attention (Look at me! No, look at ME!), with [...]

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Selling Your Home? Four Steps to a Fast Garden Makeover

March 2, 2010 6 comments
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Thinking of selling your home, or having a party? While a garden makeover may seem like an overwhelming task, if you know where to focus your energy you can get great results without having to fix everything. Use these four tips in the garden areas most likely to be seen first – near the front [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: How to Make Your Region’s Plants Pop

January 6, 2010 19 comments
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This month, a number of talented landscape designers are giving their take on the subject of regional diversity in design. Read to the bottom to see what other designers have to say! I hear it again and again: folks think that natives are boring, that they have a short bloom season, that their foliage is [...]

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Do Landscapers Listen to Our Own Advice? Plants We’d Never Plant at Home (Part Two)

December 28, 2009 7 comments
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In part one, I discussed some of the beautiful and useful plants that landscapers recommend or maintain for clients, that we wouldn’t plant in our own home gardens. Whether hard to maintain, prickly, or just overused – these are perfectly good plants in many ways – but often have one fatal flaw us pro-gardeners just [...]

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