There is a new perennial border in the garden, where before there was lawn. For lack of a more descriptive name, the garden designer currently calls it "East Perennial Border" because it is on …
Garden Design Update: Time to Plant
Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' Remember June, when it rained so much that it seemed like the garden would be a jungle by mid-summer? My spring planted landscape plants got plenty of water …
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Garden Design Element: Garden Song
Every garden has its own song. In my garden, the corn stalks long ago dried up but I like to leave them standing so I can listen to the rustling sound they make when the wind blows one stalk against …
Another Garden Design Element Discovered: Horttery
Mystery! Intrigue! What is down there? Down there is yet another garden design element that I want to find in my garden. This particular grate at the Dallas Arboretum most likely functions as a …
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A Path
A path through a future woodland garden... Imagine it with more plants... Little tiny plants that make you want to bend over and see them more closely. Bigger plants that hide the curve a bit and …
Garden Design Elements: Seasonal-shift
I find it very confusing to be in a garden where plants are blooming everywhere you look and there is no place to rest your eyes without seeing something else that screams out to be seen or if you do …
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