Designing with Ball-Shaped Flowers
I love designing with ball-shaped flowers. Don’t get me wrong, I also adore spire-shaped flowers (click here if you missed that post!) However, there’s something about
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Designing with Spire-Shaped Flowers
When designing a garden, one of my favorite flower shapes to include is spires. Spire-shaped flowers are typically triangular, with a broader base that tapers
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Proportion and Scale in the Garden
The concept of ‘proportion and scale’ in the garden can be tricky to get right, but when you do, you just know it. Well, that WASN’T
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Adding Height with Flowering, Towering Plants
I can’t get enough of tall, flowering, towering plants, whether they’re perennials, grasses, or shrubs. In fact, when wandering through a nursery or reading a
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Four-Season Structure with Trellises, Tuteurs, and Obelisks
Late winter is the perfect time to talk about adding four-season structure to the garden with tuteurs, trellises, or obelisks. Take a look outside, and
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Creating Winter Interest in the Garden – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Creating Winter Interest in the Garden (if you missed Part 1, click here.) I recently walked through a new client’s
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Creating Winter Interest in the Garden – Part 1
Creating winter interest in the garden is so important, and is one of the things I consider first when designing a new garden. Especially since
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December Garden Rockstars
It’s mid-December, and most of my garden is now fast asleep. This week’s rain has knocked off the remaining fall leaves, perennials are silently slumbering
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Designing my Pollinator Garden
You may remember my Rain Garden’s before-and-after (if not, click here.) In that post, I mentioned my goal was not only to transform this section
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Foxtail Lily Frenzy
I’d like to introduce you to my new obsession – Foxtail Lilies (eremurus ‘Oase’) I’ve wanted to write about these for months, ever since I
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Kubota Garden – lessons in form and shape
One of the many reasons why I love visiting public gardens is that each one tells a unique story: why it was created, who was the
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Going, going, gone in the Fall garden
When the garden begins to shut down and take on its melancholy tones this time of year, I often think of my grandmother. I don’t
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