“Sucking is the first step to being sorta good at something.”  My border in early July I love this quote from reddit founder Alexis...

NOSTALGIA: The idea that a plant or group of plants can evoke certain emotions based upon an evolved memory of the landscapes they ar...

I’ve been thinking about texture lately.   Texture is one of those generic garden topics like “color” that every garden book dedicates...

Garden design magazines and blogs dedicate a lot of space to answering the questions "how" and "what" to plant.  ...

This is the final post in a series I’ve been doing on how to design perennials and grasses in landscape settings. By landscape settings, I’...

This is the third post in a series I’m doing on perennials and grasses in the larger landscape. I’ve made the claim that perennials and gra...

Of all the plants I frequently obsess about, herbaceous perennials and grasses are perhaps my favorite.   Of all the plant categories, they...