Here we cover garden design, what’s being talked about in garden design, and of course, garden designers.
The townhouse I moved into 6 years ago came with a rather junky spot just beyond my back yard, marring my view from the house, porch and garden. So began [...]
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
Louisville's Olmsted Parks Conservancy photo. I drove to Cherokee Park’s Big Rock Pavilion, adjacent to Beargrass Creek, on Friday afternoon, anticipating a profusion of white bonesets, blue dayflowers [...]
Photo credit: Landscape Architecture Magazine. Rant readers know that we love Thomas Rainer’s work and his book Planting in a Post-Wild World (here’s Evelyn’s describing the aha’s she got [...]
I had the chance to hear a talk about the much-anticipated book Planting in a Post-Wild World by the authors, Thomas Rainer and Claudia West. I know I promised a book review and giveaway [...]
Here I am with everyone's favorite landscape architect Thomas Rainer before he and Claudia West spoke about their book Planting in a Post-Wild World yesterday in Oxford, Maryland. (Book review and [...]
**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, [...]
