Last night as I was browsing through the latest issue of Gardens Illustrated, I came across a short article on page 11 that touched on front yards from a political/environmental standpoint. Since our Garden Blogger’s Design Workshop’s theme this month, thanks to our dear Nan, is on Front Yards, I couldn’t resist passing this onto[...]
Fran Sorin
Front Yard Gardens
Steve’s latest post on his difficulty in getting his front yard to a place where it pleases him, along with the responses from readers who echo his sentiment, is a reminder that for many of us gardeners that extending our gardening repertoire from the backyard to the front is a significant challenge. Below is a picture of[...]
Breaking The Rules
Having worked on the same piece of land, a steeply sloping and oddly shaped one half acre lot for a quarter of a century (which I am in the process of selling), I have a made a multitude of mistakes and experienced enough ‘ah ha’ moments that the joy of digging, observing and connecting to[...]
Follow Up On Over The Top Couture Container Gardening
Since there were several queries and comments on my post about the containers at Chanticleer, I mentioned that I would try to contact Dan Benarcik, the horticulturist who is the designer of several of these containers to get his input on the ‘hows’, ‘whats’, etc. I was lucky enough to run into Dan on Saturday[...]
Over The Top Couture Container Gardening
I have always been a huge fan of Chanticleer, what was once a private estate garden in the suburbs of Philadelphia that was turned into a public garden in the early 1990s by its owner, Adolph Rosengarten and led by the extremely talented Chris Woods, and in recent years by the very capable hands of Bill Thomas,[...]