I didn’t expect to be taking garden photos when I visited my daughter in New York City, where she lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area – a “transitional” section of Brooklyn. But for years Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been sponsoring The Greenest Street in Brooklyn as a neighborhood beautification program and it’s inspiring. My camera phone [...]
Once again the bloggers at Garden Designers Roundtable bring you a series of networked bogs around a common theme and have asked members of the Lawn Reform Coalition to join forces. As a member of LRC, I chose to blog on my home turf, here at Gardening Gone Wild. Many more posts will be [...]
I have recently been asked to join the Lawn Reform Coalition, a group of garden designers and environmental advocates who are promoting new ways to think about the American fetish for lawns. A well groomed lawn/garden does compliment any home. Sonoran Landesign does pool landscaping and general landscape design in the Phoenix Scottsdale area if [...]
Most gardens of any size are designed with wending in mind. Don’t you just love that Old English word “wending” ? So casual, carefree, and contemplative by inference. Even formal entries can invite wending. The entry to this garden was designed by my friend, the landscape architect Robyn Sherrill, who fortunately for me does not [...]
I was a little hesitant to repeat a GBDW topic, thinking that you all might be bored with the subject of front-yard gardens. Well, how glad I am that I was wrong! Our contributors this month have outdone themselves in generously sharing ideas and inspiration with other folks looking to turn their own barren yards [...]