To kick off Year Three of the Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop, we’re revisiting one of our most popular topics: fences, walls, and other means of creating enclosure, separating spaces, and adding privacy and protection. As we explore various styles, we can’t help but admire the charm of options like the post and rail fencing by[...]
Winter’s stark beauty. Color vanishes from the landscape. Bare trees dominate the garden. On cloudy overcast days, the somber gray sky can become a clean white background, perfect for silhouettes with just a little bit of camera manipulation. You can override your camera meter’s calibration which is designed to read each scene as a[...]
Dear Gardening-Gone-Wilders, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Scott Calhoun and I’m a writer and garden designer living in Tucson, Arizona. I love exploring backroads and backcountry in search of plants, gardens, architecture, and food. I’m the author of five books which are mostly about plants: Yard Full of Sun; Chasing Wildflowers; Designer[...]
For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got all the way down to 24. Some of you only wish it might get up to 24. If crunching across the frozen grass is no rare sensory treat that gets[...]
Every year I garden in Northern California I am dumbstruck in November. I do not have the words to describe what season this is. I put together a hasty bouquet yesterday while tidying up my home office for a client meeting in hopes that some flowers might distract from the piles of books, files, and[...]