Garden Designers Roundtable: Move over, prom queens! Give other plants a chance
July 27, 2010 Image courtesy of morgueFile Do certain gardens remind you of high school, where everyone orbits around the popular girls—Rosa (KnockOut), Stella (D’Oro daylily), and Myrtle (crepe)—simultaneously admiring their peppy beauty and begrudging their general domination? I’m not talking about mean girls. After all, Rosa, Stella, and Myrtle ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Designing for small spaces
June 22, 2010 Narrow side yard AFTER: A garden that connects front and back and provides views for dining room windows. A pretty good place for an Easter egg hunt too. Today my fellow knights and ladies of the Garden Designers Roundtable are exploring the topic of designing for small ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: The magic of using focal points
April 26, 2010 Today I join 10 designers from Garden Designers Roundtable in posting about focal points. (Photo: English Walled Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden) Placing a focal point in your garden is like wielding a magic wand to cast a spell over your visitors. A well-placed object has the power ...
Focal points & a fabulous garden visit…coming soon!
April 25, 2010 Stay on target. Stay…on…target! I’m focused on writing tomorrow’s noontime post about focal points for Garden Designers Roundtable. I hope you’ll tune in tomorrow for that and follow the links to read what 10 other garden designers around the U.S. and the U.K. have to say about ...
Focal points & a fabulous garden visit…coming soon!
April 25, 2010 Stay on target. Stay…on…target! I’m focused on writing tomorrow’s noontime post about focal points for Garden Designers Roundtable. I hope you’ll tune in tomorrow for that and follow the links to read what 10 other garden designers around the U.S. and the U.K. have to say about ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Color crazy!
March 24, 2010 I was reliving my Florida vacation yesterday when 10 of my compadres at Garden Designers Roundtable posted about color. But last night I read through their posts, drooling over the pictures and getting great ideas for my garden. Be sure to check them out to jazz up ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Foliage, the Thick and Thin of It
February 23, 2010 In a couple of weeks, as bulbs begin to bloom, perennials re-leaf, and spring arrives in earnest here in central Texas, the floral displays at the nurseries will sing their siren song, and it’ll be all too easy to forget about the structural foliage plants that anchor ...
Giveaway deadline & other fun stuff
February 20, 2010 After all the lovely comments (85 so far!) from all you lovely readers on my 4th blogiversary post, I’m still smiling and feeling like I’ve been to a fun party. Now I know I enticed you to comment with my giveaway offer of three sets of notecards ...
Giveaway deadline & other fun stuff
February 20, 2010 After all the lovely comments (85 so far!) from all you lovely readers on my 4th blogiversary post, I’m still smiling and feeling like I’ve been to a fun party. Now I know I enticed you to comment with my giveaway offer of three sets of notecards ...
Garden Designers Roundtable riffs on design
February 12, 2010 If you’ve noticed the new badge on my sidebar for Garden Designers Roundtable, perhaps you’ve wondered what it’s all about. The Roundtable is a group of 23 professional garden and landscape designers from across the U.S. and Great Britain who have teamed up to post separately, on ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Regional Diversity in Design
January 06, 2010Gardening With a Sense of Place Today I join 12 other garden designers across the U.S. in posting on the topic Regional Diversity in Design. The idea of creating gardens with a sense of place is dear to my heart. In A Garden That Says “Howdy” (May 2007), ...
