Posts Tagged ‘garden design’
Weed-Smoothering Floral Tapestries
Sound intriguing? Easy-peasy. Simply imagine a jaw-dropping, dazzling quilt or tapestry and then envision it sweeping over a section of your landscape. Maybe it is a hard to mow area, a slope, or a lawn alternative. For the most low-maintenance, high-impact designs, select perennials, woody plants, bulbs and annuals that are drought resistant and don’t…
Read More2016 Great Gardens Symposium a Huge Success
Last month’s Great Gardens and Landscaping Symposium, hosted at The Woodstock Inn and Resort, was hailed the best yet by many returning attendees. The event sold out 2.5 months before it even started with 225 attendees from nine states. Joseph Tychonievich, Kim Eierman, Benjamin Pauly and myself all received high marks for energizing, engaging and…
Read MoreContain Yourself, Please!
Container gardening continues to rapidly rise in popularity. Aging baby boomers as well as millennials are discovering the joy and ease of gardening in containers and raised beds. Everything from edibles to ornamentals to flowering shrubs and conifers are fair game. May is when many of us start diving into bags of rich, organic potting…
Read MoreChanticleer design tips from Garden Design magazine
Garden Design magazine’s spring 2016 issue is pure eye-candy coupled with the most take-away design tips yet! One of the fascinating reads is about Chanticleer, a cutting-edge public garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Bill Thomas, the executive director and head gardener, shares 15 creative design tips for transforming gardens, large or small. Many…
Read MoreGrand Garden Class at The Grand Hotel
I am excited to be giving an exclusive how-to gardening class as the ‘opening act’ for the Proven Winners Grand Garden Show on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan. I will be teaching ‘Designing a High-Impact, Low-Maintenance Flower Garden Featuring Remarkable Perennials, Flowering Shrubs and Annuals’ on Sunday, August 28 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. at…
Read MoreGarden Design features Culp’s Gardens
Spring Explodes into Color in David Culp’s Suburban Philadelphia Garden! Words cannot accurately express the spectacular beauty of David Culp’s 2-acre piece of paradise at Brandywine Cottage located outside of Philadelphia. Garden Design’s spring issue indulges readers to 10-pages of heavenly photographs starring Brandywine Cottage’s spring landscape. These naturalistic, cottage-style gardens have been brilliantly fashioned…
Read MoreGarden Design: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
I get a kick out of using mirrors in the garden to play delightful tricks on the eye! A strategically sited mirror can give the illusion that a small garden is twice its size. A striking focal point can actually be ‘doubled’. (photo right from Pinterest, Catherine Trafarro. Photo below, Pinterest, google.co.uk.) One designer I…
Read MoreGarden Design magazine features Piet Oudolf’s gardens NYBG
Piet Oudolf is a name recognized by gardeners world-wide. This renowned Dutch garden designer has transformed the way many of us think about flower gardening. The autumn 2015 issue of Garden Design magazine featured one of Oudolf’s masterpiece – the stunning 200-foot-long seasonal border at New York Botanical Garden. Oudolf originally designed this garden in…
Read MoreGarden Design Magazine is Digging Dahlias!
I have always put my muck boot down on using dahlias in the gardens, believing the work involved in digging and storing them for winter outweighed the beauty they offered. That was until I read the Digging Dahlias article in the autumn issue of Garden Design magazine. These exceptional plants contribute tremendous color and form…
Read MoreGarden Design Features Dan Hinkley’s Gardens
I was speaking to my friend Jim Peterson, publisher of Garden Design, and he said that a number of you have joined me in subscribing to this incomparable, quarterly, ad-free magazine. I just received the 2015 Autumn issue and I’m gaga! The 12-page feature on Dan Hinkley, a world-renowned nurseryman, plant hunter and author, is…
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