A reminder that you’ve got only 4 more days to get your entries in for September’s Picture This Photo Contest. The subject that our judge, Christa Neu of Organic Gardening Magazine, chose is   LATE SUMMER GARDEN TO read the initial post that explains what Christa is looking for in the winning entry, click on:  September’s[...]

Recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I saw outdoor design ideas that were clever, entertaining and a little quirky. (A little Albuquerque, too—more about that later.) Like this vignette at a Canyon Road gallery: a painting paired with annuals. Don’t want to hang your outdoor oil painting on the wall? Prop it on an easel.[...]

Basking in sunshine, while England gets a drenching, I’m in Potsdam (just outside Berlin) for a very brief visit as I have been invited by a group of students at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology to do a lecture for a conference they have organized. Looking at the list of other lecturers,[...]

I originally wrote about Starting Over in the context of creating a new rooftop garden this past spring in Tel Aviv. At that time, I had a few containers, views of others rooftops, some pretty hefty rain storms, and a desire to design a private haven. Back then, I promised that I would keep you[...]