. . 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
. 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 [...]
. . 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 [...]