GBDW – Stone in the Garden Wrap-Up

– Posted in: Garden Design

  We now return you to our regularly scheduled Gardening Gone Wild programming: the end-of-the-month summary of this month’s posts on the topic of stone in the garden. In Fran’s post this month, she commented on the value of “simplicity and subtlety” when it comes to stonework. I think the photo above is a good[...]

Spring Blooming Trees

– Posted in: Garden Design

Over the years I’ve gone through a slew of spring blooming trees that either got knocked down by storms or that I had removed due to landscape renovations. Those years allowed me to experiment with a variety of plant material and learn what it was that I didn’t want in my garden. It wasn’t until[...]

Let There Be Light

– Posted in: Garden Design

We gardeners spend a good bit of time thinking about light. Is our yard too sunny for a plant we want to try, or is it too shady? How much light qualifies as “full sun”? What’s the difference between part sun and part shade? How about morning sun versus afternoon sun? Some of us have[...]

Stone: Can’t Get Enough Of It

– Posted in: Garden Design

In response to Nan’s topic this month for Garden Blogger’s Design Workshop, I have only one thing to say, I can’t get enough of stone: beautiful, authentic slabs of stone in different intensities and blends of color, textures, shapes and thickness. These stones are a real turn on for me,  perhaps because they are so[...]