A Year at Brandywine Cottage complements David Culp's previous book, The Layered Garden. They each inspire in different ways.
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Buffalo Gardens and Gardening Budgets: Two Book Reviews
January 28, 2019 – Posted in: Book reviewsIt's cold outside and warm inside, but you've read through and marked up the seed catalogs, going through each one twice, and even placed some orders, so-now what? Read some books, like the two I review here and even more linked to at the bottom of the post.
Let’s Talk About Color
February 25, 2018 – Posted in: DesignI thought it was the end of the world when I discovered my daughters didn't see the colors in my garden the way I did. A garden I toured in Buffalo helped change my mind. Read the rest of my blog post to find out how.
Kerry’s Webinar and My Talk
January 8, 2017 – Posted in: Colchicums, EventsJust a quick reminder to sign up for Kerry Mendez' webinar: Inspired Design Lessons Learned from Magnificent Gardens in England, Canada and the United States. She's presenting it on January 26 at 2pm Eastern time, but you don't have to be present at that time. If you are registered, you can download the video later [...]
Inspired Design Lessons: New Webinar from Kerry Ann
December 17, 2016 – Posted in: Events, How-to, Plant infoMy next webinar, Inspired Design Lessons Learned from Magnificent Gardens in England, Canada and the United States, will be on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). Breathtaking gardens will be the classroom for great take-away lessons that elevate landscapes from ordinary to spectacular! What better time than drab winter days to [...]
Digging Deep: Book Review and Giveaway
September 19, 2016 – Posted in: Book reviewsI planted my first garden by the book. Actually, I consulted several books, obsessing over plant heights, color palettes, bloom times and more over the winter as I designed and redesigned my garden on paper. I wanted to do it "right": prepare the soil right, choose the plants right, arrange them right, plant them right, [...]
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden: Book Review
September 29, 2015 – Posted in: Book reviews, Habitat gardening, Native/InvasiveI picked up Roy Diblik's The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden from the library shelf because I knew the author supplied the plants for the Lurie Garden in Chicago, working closely with designer Piet Oudolf, and I wanted to learn more about the naturalistic style of gardening that both of these men espouse. Yes, there is [...]
Winter Bones: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes No. 1, 2015
January 16, 2015 – Posted in: Lilactree Farm, Meditations, WeatherWhat a dark fall and early winter this has been, cold too, now. Hal Borland was right when he wrote that ‘as the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.’ This morning is a brief reprieve, grey again but calm and mild, impossible to resist taking the camera into the garden.
How To Turn Your Best Friend Into A Gardening Addict: Book Review
December 8, 2014 – Posted in: Book reviewsIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that everyone who loves gardening wants everyone they love to love gardening. It may not be your best friend who you want to convert--uh, get hooked--that is, become interested in gardening. Perhaps it is your grown children, or the young couple who moved in down the street and keeps [...]
Make That Lingering Snow Earn Its Keep
March 21, 2014 – Posted in: Design, Front of the House, Hardscaping and Projects, How-to, New House, New GardensThe snow is melting, but not fast enough to suit me. I've already taken pictures of where the snow melts first, so I know where to plant my spring-flowering bulbs this fall. In the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, I realized this lingering snow was the perfect opportunity to outline a new garden [...]
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