Garden Photography Pattern Language
In 1977 Christopher Alexander published an architectural tome about how towns and buildings were typically constructed so that beautiful, functional…
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May 6, 2024
All things gardeny
Fall and winter container palette.
Photography Tips for Landscape Designers
When container designer Cindy Funes of Garden Revelry is running her crew of installers, she has too much on her…
November 5, 2023
San De Fuca Straight view
Re Treat – A Gardener’s Getaway
Real gardeners rarely get away for vacations, always needing to weed this or prune that. The fear of missing out…
November 3, 2023
Circles and Spheres – Visualizing Garden Design
A friend of mine asked me recently about the best ways to talk to people about plants. I spend all…
October 7, 2020
Panic Planting, and why you should Plan Ahead
A woman came into the nursery the other day, frantically waiving a piece of paper with a list of plant…
October 6, 2020
Orange you glad you have different options for fall containers?
I get bored easily. The endless scroll of orange tones for fall container displays on Pin-stagram. The tawny cornstalks, the…
September 12, 2020
Forget Babylon, let’s all have Floating Gardens!
Somehow, I have managed to fall into every body of water from the Pacific Ocean to the tiniest of puddles.…
May 26, 2020
Gardening for Uncertain Times
The internet brings daily, even hourly, updates about rational things to worry about. Seeing the grocery store sold out of…
March 14, 2020
Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse
Sunday morning musings, with our coffee and the newspaper, and we’re imagining all the dire expectations for an upcoming political…
February 27, 2020
