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Garden Colors: Inspiration from Mexico
Mexico is all about color, and there is no better place to see an exuberance of garden colors. On my recent visit to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, I arrived just in time for the Candelaria. It's the celebration of the end of one lunar cycle and the beginning of the...
5 Ways to Add Garden WOW Factor with Love
This is the perfect time of year to be focused on ways to add garden WOW factor. And this close to Valentine's Day, do it with love! Whether you have an intimate patio garden or courtyard to design, or acres of lush rolling hills to landscape, when you add garden WOW...
10 Fresh Garden Ideas for All Year Enjoyment
January is the perfect time for fresh garden ideas to plan the next phase of your landscape. Take a peek at Pinterest and get inspired by creative concepts, or let your fingers stroll to Instagram and view the tapestry of gardens and landscapes featured there....
Outdoor Holiday Decorating Inspired by Mother Nature
What's your favorite kind of outdoor holiday decorating? As I was driving to an event the other night after dark, I passed one of those homes that was lit up like a firecracker for the holidays. They had lights of every color outlining the house, the shrubs and the...
Garden & Landscape Fall Maintenance Tips
As the weather cools and the trees drop their leaves, the hydrangea blooms once a glorious indigo or sweet pink, now a dusty hue, it's time to implement key garden and landscape fall maintenance tips. This is the time of year when you want to prepare your landscape...
English Garden Design: Historical Inspiration
I am always inspired by English garden design and landscapes. Last month, I enjoyed a brief trip to England on my way to Russia and wanted to share some of the flavor of their landscape architecture and the English garden design. The English are well known for their...
Grand Garden Design: The Peterhof Gardens
Often called the Russian Versailles, The Peterhof Gardens near St Petersburg are the very definition of a grand garden design. With 500 acres, 200+ statues, 144 fountains, 7 palaces, and 23 museums, it is the most visited site in Russia hosting over 4.2 million...
Landscape Sculpture: “Indeterminate Lines”
In February this year, the International Sculpture Center awarded artist and sculptor Bernar Venet the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of landscape sculpture. Just two weeks ago, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting...
Composing a Garden: A Quartet Blooms
Composing a garden is a lot like composing music. There are places in the garden that invite a crescendo of blooms, and other areas that call for a something gentler, more of an adagio. A tree may be a cappella, placed without accompaniment of flora and fauna, while...
Gardening Tips for Late Summer
Here are some simple gardening tips for late summer to keep your landscape looking great. Our gardens take summer vacations in a manner of speaking. When temperatures exceed 90 degrees and the days begin to shorten after summer solstice, and rain is only an...
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