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Garden design is many things: art, science, traveling through space (and time), but primarily it is an exercise in problem solving.
My knot garden 2.0 – far more sensible.
Over the years I’ve made many gardens. In truth I should say I’ve made many, many (many, many) gardens. It all b...
Did you know that forsythias kill bees? No? I didn’t know either.
It could be because this fact is actually completely false. It’s another one of those ‘internet facts’ that’s bounded around by certain types of gardener, one which is – if we’re kind enough no to call it nonsense – rooted in misunderstanding.
If you look carefully yo...
Yard waste – what I think of when I hear the term “plant material.”
Have you ever noticed that people in the plant business refer to plants as “plant material”? I’ve heard the term used by growers, landscapers, landscape architects, and horticulturists, and it makes no sense to me.
Why use five syllables when one works perfectly? I’...
I decided we’d look at The Garden of Ignorance this time, since we can all identify with that and it takes us back to her beginnings. Including, horrors, her name at that time.
It used t...
The Callery (Bradford) pear may be one of horticulture’s best example of a good idea gone very wrong. Could it happen again? Of course. Are there no other examples of plants that seemed perfect at the time, but couldn’t live up to the billing? I always had difficulty keeping our highly publicized, box-store-special ...