“Fine Foliage” Book Preview Debuts in Fine Form
Lush, rich, textured, bold, detailed, soft, feathery, spiky, romantic, elegant, sophisticated, dazzling, artistic, and dramatic are just a few of the many adjectives for the leaf. Or was that the...
View ArticleGarden Designers Roundtable – Finer Points of Details in the Garden
As the sign of the Virgo, my detail-oriented nature is ruled by the mind. Virgos are always analyzing everything, with a penchant for working with very precise and detailed designs on a more focused...
View ArticleWinter Math in the Landscape
January in the landscape is about math. Yes, you read that correctly, I wrote math. Not like the kind of garden math in The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. And not in the lovely “Fractaliscious” way...
View ArticleSnippets of Foliage and Winter Garden Art
Making good use of January indoor time is important to me as a gardener. I like the creative momentum that builds up after the fall garden clean up is over, the holiday distractions are finished and...
View ArticleGarden Designers Roundtable- SHOW of Inspiration
Inspiration for garden design ideas for the New Year can obviously come from any number of sources. You can fall down the internet rabbit hole of Social Media and lose hours of your life to just...
View ArticleDeep In the Green of the Moss Garden
Yesterday, I went and took a long therapeutic walk through the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The flowers were just barely starting to peek up, mostly the earliest Hellebores. But, today the truest star...
View ArticleGardening With Confidence – Book Review
My book shelves are organized by a few different groups. I have a my garden “How-To” books, then my juicy pictorial coffee table type books, then my collection of what I refer to as my beloved “Garden...
View ArticleNancy Claire Guth “Electro Cute” at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Some designers are truly gifted at bringing creative ideas to life. Other designers are good at running a business and creating a loyal following of clients. Its uncommon in my experience to find both...
View ArticleGardener Give-Away! – Down to Earth Designed Apron
Janna Lufkin from Raw Materials Design sent me this apron to try out and I immediately fell in love the minute I opened the box. This is no wimpy thing. It’s truly a tool in your arsenal for the...
View ArticleGarden Designers Roundtable – Celebrating Trees
The definition of Dendrolatry: Tree worship, refers to the tendency of many societies throughout history to worship or otherwise mythologize trees. If that is true, then yes, I am hopelessly guilty. I...
View ArticleSunset On A Garden – Stacie Crooks Landscape
If you Google Stacie Crooks, you will automatically realize what a powerhouse designer you have just found if you didn’t already know about her. Stacie Crooks is a nationally recognized Seattle-based...
View ArticleA Summer Summary Garden Tour
Except for one freeze that lasted two days this last winter, here in the greater Seattle area you could safely say that ours was the winter that never happened. Consequently, between the release of...
View ArticleNovember Sun – Cold Color Celebration
Sunny November days in Seattle are a pure unadulterated bonus. Our gardening climate is alternately dazzling and maddening at the same time. The depth of gray in winter seems to last forever and the...
View ArticleWho is the BIGGEST Sexiest Tease in the Garden?
The Winter Garden at the Seattle Arboretum If November is about the slowing down and putting the landscape to bed for a few months, and December is about focusing on our indoor garden, then January is...
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hiring a Personal Garden Coach!
Enthusiasm for gardening is easy to acquire every single spring when you begin to see the first little plants start to line the front of the grocery store entryway. St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon...
View ArticleChelsea Flower Show, London & Country Gardens with CarexTours Pt.1
Carolyn Mullet is a top-level landscape designer based in Maryland and I was the BLESSED photographer she invited along to document her tour through England earlier this year via her tour company...
View ArticleChelsea Flower Show, London & Country Gardens with CarexTours Pt.2
The entry drive across the “moat” in front of the castle. Broughton Castle is a moated and fortified manor house near Banbury in North Oxfordshire. Set in parkland and built of the rich local Hornton...
View ArticleChelsea Flower Show, London & Country Gardens with CarexTours Pt. 3
Spring at the Pettifers garden in Oxfordshire owned and designed by Gina Price is a privilege to behold. Upon arriving, you have no idea the delightful spectacle that awaits you through the beautiful...
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