Garden Designers Roundtable

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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Celebrating Regional (and Client) Diversity – Part 2

by Rebecca Sweet 27 October 2010

I don’t know what it is, but I just LOVE designing gardens for people who aren’t from California.  Or the United States, for that matter.  I think it’s because I live in Northern California where the majority of the population are from someplace other than Northern California. Earlier this year, I wrote a post with [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: A garden for wildlife (the good AND the bad)

by Rebecca Sweet 24 August 2010

In this month’s Garden Designers Roundtable, we discuss how to create a garden that’s inviting to wildlife – creating a ‘habitat garden’. I think it’s safe to say that for the most part, those of us who love gardening appreciate most aspects of nature and get a little thrill when discovering hidden bird nests in [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Underutilized Plants

by Rebecca Sweet 27 July 2010

. 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 reasons [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Creative Containers

by Rebecca Sweet 25 May 2010

‘Containers’ is the topic for this month’s Garden Designers Round Table post.  Choosing and planting containers is one of the most fun topics of all to write about, as it’s a great way to inject some personality into your garden. . This is especially important for people who have an established garden – one that’s [...]

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Garden Designers Round Table – Focal Points

by Rebecca Sweet 27 April 2010

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 dot.  And [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Color

by Rebecca Sweet 23 March 2010

Color is the topic for this month’s Garden Designers Roundtable discussion – and once again it’s a MASSIVE topic full of endless possibilities!   How on EARTH can I narrow down such an all-encompassing topic such as this? I’ve decided to write about the most important color in my designs – Maroon. Or burgundy. Or [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable – Designing with Foliage

by Rebecca Sweet 23 February 2010

What is the ‘Garden Designers Roundtable’?  First started in December 2009, a small group of us thought it would be fun, as professional landscape designers, to each write an article on the same topic (Do Designers Practice what they Preach), but each written from our own point of experience from different parts of the country. [...]

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