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Garden Designers Round Table – Underutilized Plants

. . This topic for this month’s Garden Designers Round Table discussion is ‘Underutilized Plants’, and is one that’s very important to me as a Garden Designer.   As a designer, I definitely have my list of ‘Faves’ that I like to plant whenever possible.  Why are they my favorites?  It’s usually a combination of [...]

Green Design – Indoor & Outdoor Plantscape

. Do you ever walk down a busy street and you see a hint of something cool peeking out from the doorway of a building, and you just KNOW something good is about to happen?  Well that’s what happened to me the other day when I was in San Jose and stumbled upon Green Design [...]

Gardeners and Their Gardens – The Tanners

. One of my favorite things about being a passionate gardener myself is getting to meet other passionate gardeners.  I’ve been so lucky to have met so many incredible people, and then when I see their gardens I’m even MORE amazed. . A gardener’s own garden is truly an expression of their soul.  And you [...]

Garden Designers Round Table – Focal Points

. This month’s Garden Designers Round Table topic is The Focal Point.  And to simply illustrate a perfect focal point example, I’ve chosen the Bullseye. . Why is this small dot a focal point, anyway?  When you think about it, the combined mass of the concentric circles is so much greater than that one little [...]

San Francisco Garden Show – How I View the Gardens

. . I must have walked around this show for hours, snapping photos of all the gardens because when I came home I had close to 800 pictures!  One thing I noticed was that I tend to take pictures of small portions of the gardens which really caught my eye.  I rarely have a photo [...]