vertical gardening

Window boxes help add vertical interest to your garden

by Rebecca Sweet 19 September 2011

I guess I just can’t stop thinking about gardening up (can you blame me?) When writing our book, Garden Up, Susan Morrison and I had to draw the line somewhere, and unfortunately a few topics didn’t quite made the cut. Window boxes were one of them, and it’s too bad because I really feel that [...]

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Think vertically when designing side yards

by Rebecca Sweet 4 August 2011

In one of the chapters of our book Garden Up! Susan and I write about maximizing your garden’s side yard. These spaces are often neglected, and turn into dumping grounds for junky items collected over the years. While it’s true we all need a place to store that broken BBQ that we can’t quite throw away [...]

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Dutchman’s Pipevine

by Rebecca Sweet 7 July 2011

While visiting my friends in Connecticut last week I couldn’t help but fall in love with the massive Dutchman’s Pipevine that seductively draped over their arbor. It’s giant heart-shaped leaves seemed to glow from within when backlit by the setting sun. The tendrils gently coiled downwards, adding an almost ethereal appearance to this cozy space.

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A Fireplace Mantle gets a new home

by Rebecca Sweet 21 June 2011

While driving around in the rain a few months ago, I spotted this old fireplace mantle leaning behind a dumpster with a bunch of junk piled on top of it. The dumpster was behind a furniture staging company – you know, the kind that stages homes when they go on the market? But this had [...]

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Living Walls in a San Francisco Community Garden

by Rebecca Sweet 3 April 2011

While in San Francisco recently, I stumbled upon this community garden sandwiched in between a really busy road and an apartment building. It’s a community garden built and maintained by a homeless shelter and surrounding neighbors (which is cool enough!) but I loved all the creative (and free) living wall elements in it. All the [...]

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The Latest from the Garden Up! Promotion Trail

by Rebecca Sweet 31 March 2011

I’m so excited to be giving my very first radio interview this Saturday morning (April 2nd) at 8:15 am (that’s A.M. folks)! And not just any ol’ radio interview, but with one of my favorite programs – Garden Life! It’ll be broadcast throughout the country, so check here for stations near you! (And [...]

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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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