A big congratulation goes out to our fellow GGW blogger, Nan Ondra, whose garden is written about by Anne Raver in today’s NY Times Home and Garden section. For those of us already familiar with the astounding beauty that Nan has created over the past 8 years, we are not surprised with what Anne Raver has written. [...]
July 2008
GBDW – Garden Whimsy Wrap-Up
July 30, 2008 – Posted in: Garden Design
My fellow garden bloggers, I stand in awe of your collective whimsicality. I mean, I know you’re not a boring bunch, but really, I’m floored by your enthusiastic response to this month’s Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop topic. It’s been a real treat to see how each of you ran with the theme and put your [...]
Finding the photo
July 29, 2008 – Posted in: Garden Design, Garden Photography
Sometimes we look at our garden successes and wonder how to photograph it. What is the essence? What makes it work? I walked down my driveway this morning where I have a mixed shrub border and once again fell in love with Ceanothus ‘Marie-Simon’. While I like this straight on photo, composed to evoke the [...]
Natives vs. Aliens
July 25, 2008 – Posted in: Miscellaneous
Chasmanthium I’m sure you all have heard discussions over the past couple of years about native plants. Rick Darke’s book, The American Woodland Garden, made a convincing case for creating a deciduous native woodland garden. And alot of us have read articles on the reasons for planting natives: they create biodiversity and good air quality, [...]
The Gaudy Garden
July 20, 2008 – Posted in: Garden Design
A while back, I read that Sarah Raven, the author of one of my favorite gardening reads, The Bold and Brilliant Garden, originally wanted to call her book The Gaudy Garden. If I remember correctly, someone talked her out of it, using the reasoning that no one would buy a book with that title. Well, [...]