Harmony in the Garden Blog

Category: Garden Design Tips

Adding Height with Flowering, Towering Plants

The surest way to create a wow-factor moment in your garden is to add height with flowering, towering plants. Not just a little height either

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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 with trellises, tuteurs, and obelisks. Take a look outside, and you’re likely to

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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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Drab to Fab – My Front Entry Garden Makeover

When designing the front entrance of a client’s new garden, I know I’ve succeeded in creating something special when: 1. I spy someone walking down

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Creating Contrast in the garden

Creating contrast in the garden is such an important design principle, I thought it would be helpful to show the many different ways I accomplished

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A Magnificent Monochromatic Garden

Welcome to Lani Freymiller’s magnificent monochromatic garden! What’s a monochromatic garden? It’s one that uses a very limited color palette. I’ve noticed that gardeners are

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