Saxon Holt

Prairie Delights part 2

garden wall covered with boston ivy

I am supposed to editing all the photos I took of gardens while I was in Minnesota working with Evelyn Hadden on her “Lose Your Lawn” book.   But I just can’t get those prairies off my mind. I do promise to bring this post back around to garden photography at the end.  This is[...]

Prairie Delights

Muhly grass in prairie

Just back from Minnesota where I was shooting for a new book with fellow Lawn Reform Coalition member Evelyn Hadden, and spent my free time looking for prairies.  OMG!  OMG,  O-M-G . . . The Crow-Hassan Park Reserve is part of Three Rivers Park District, a regional park for the Minneapolis area.  I did not[...]

The One

A few weeks ago in my post  Wending and Wind, we finished our wandering at the urn focal point at the rear of the garden designed by Robyn Sherrill.

Lawn Reform

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[...]