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Garden Designers Roundtable – Designing with Foliage

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What is the ‘Garden Designer’s Roundtable’?  It began last December when a small group of us thought it would be fun, as professional landscape designers, to simultaneously write an article dedicated to the same topic (“Do Designers Practice what they Preach”), but each written with our own, distinctive ‘voice’.
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It was an idea that was [...]

Garden Designer’s Roundtable: Celebrating Regional Diversity – Silicon Valley style!

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I’ve been invited to join in a lively discussion among some of my fellow landscape designers around the country to talk about  ’celebrating regional diversity’.
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I LOVE this topic – embracing that which makes each of our regions unique and how we celebrate it through garden design.
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My client base is in Northern California’s ‘Silicon Valley’ – [...]

Garden Designer’s Roundtable – Some rules are meant to be broken!

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Whenever I begin a new design, at some point early in the design process I like to invite the new client to my garden so they can 1) get a first-hand look of my own, personal favorite style of gardening, and 2) identify the plants they like/dislike for their own garden.  It’s also a great [...]

Right Plant, Right Space, Wrong Place – What a Waste!

Read Those Plant Tags!! Make sure you’re giving your plant it’s appropriate space or LOOK OUT…..