“The chief vice in gardens is to be merely pretty,” wrote American landscape architect Fletcher Steele in the 1930’s. “I believe there is no...

[Image from Mayang.com] This article has been linked from The University of Oxford.  For original link, click here . "The received wi...

The first of the Groundbreakers honorees goes to the inheritors of the European formal garden tradition. The family firm of Wirtz Internatio...

I don't normally feature products on my blog, but these two I could not resist.  Our good friends from graduate school have recently com...

I am dedicating a handful of upcoming blogs to highlighting some of the world’s most outstanding planting designers in a series entitled Gr...

Trying out the occasional new plant in the garden is a low risk endeavor; using a new plant in a mass of 1,000 or more for a client, the sta...

Shining Rocks Wilderness, Pigsah National Forest Landscape painting once had a rich dialogue with landscape design. The English landscape ga...

For several weeks now, I have been extolling wildness and naturalism as a virtue in the design of landscapes. My claim is that man-made la...

World’s Fairs have long been a celebration of human industry and invention, our Promethean spirit on display. Most World’s Fairs have a cent...

In 1941 writer Lewis Mumford--known as "the last of the great humanists"--published a book The South in Architecture , a plea for...