Garden Designers Roundtable

Garden Designers Roundtable- My ‘Don’t Do This’ Top Ten List

by Rebecca Sweet 24 January 2012

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a long, long time – my Top 10 things NOT to do in your garden!  Having designed gardens for over a decade, I’ve seen a lot of crazy things; some funny, some not so much. Please join me today, along with the rest of the Garden Designers [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Designing with Deer

by Rebecca Sweet 12 December 2011

Sure, it’s tempting to title this post Deer-Proof Plants or something of that nature but truth be told, deer will eat just about anything when they’re hungry.  And not only that, but they’re some of the craftiest animals around when it comes to sneaking into your garden.  The second you leave your gate open, they [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – From Here to There

by Rebecca Sweet 26 September 2011

The topic for this month’s Garden Designers Roundtable is From Here to There, which I’m interpreting as pathways.  This is a most excellent topic as it’s one that seems to overwhelm most of my clients.   While most people have a general idea of the style of garden they want, colors they like, etc. they’re not [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – What’s lawn doing in Hell?

by Rebecca Sweet 22 August 2011

Let me state up front that I’m not a hater when it comes to lawns.  There, I’ve said it. If you have a lawn and you or your kids actually use it, then it’s okay in my book.  Especially if you don’t have unrealistic expectations that you need to saturate your garden with chemicals to keep [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Favorite Landscape Plants

by Rebecca Sweet 25 April 2011

The topic of this month’s Garden Designer’s Roundtable is sharing my favorite ‘must have’ plants with you.  Easy!  I grabbed a pen, sat down in my comfy chair and began to list my favorites.  Time ticked by and after awhile I realized I had at least 50 choices so far, with no end in sight. [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Garden Up! Director’s Cut

by Rebecca Sweet 22 March 2011

Our new book, Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces, made its debut this past week and Susan Morrison and I are thrilled that our fellow Roundtablers will be writing their own thoughts about vertical gardening today. Since I’ve already written about many different aspects of vertical gardening in Garden Up!, I [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Mixing Edibles & Ornamentals

by Rebecca Sweet 22 February 2011

Remember when having a vegetable garden meant a collection of raised beds, or a few tomato plants in a pot?  Instead of banishing them to out-of-the-way areas, these days, edibles are everywhere in the garden – mixed with ornamentals, scrambling out of recycled containers, and clambering up apartment walls. This topic of this month’s Garden [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Inspiration

by Rebecca Sweet 14 December 2010

This month’s topic for the Garden Designers Roundtable is Inspiration, and it took me all of 2 seconds to figure out what I’d write about. Without a doubt, Mother Nature (the grandest Garden Designer of them all) provides me with endless inspiration. To see classic design principles perfectly implemented and naturally occurring fills both my [...]

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Dining Alfresco with the Garden Designers Roundtable

by Rebecca Sweet 23 November 2010

As we head into fall, with winter on our heels, it might seem odd to write about ‘Dining Alfresco’ (the topic for this month’s Garden Designers Roundtable discussion).   While cozying up indoors this winter, why not make plans for creating an outdoor area in your own garden next spring? Entertaining large gatherings, or just [...]

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