January is one of the best times for thinking about the garden.    While plants rest in dormancy under the frozen ground, my mind starts ra...

Well, I’m hoping that my last post about the joys of being a new parent was a plausible excuse for my lack of blogging recently.   The last ...

Just this week, I read an article in Newsweek that asked a very interesting question: “what’s the matter with men?”  For several years, t...

PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parki...

Late September is an ideal time to think about next year’s garden.   Collecting and saving seeds might be the world’s most ancient garden ac...

My most beloved garden was honored in this month's Hill Rag magazine as one of "Five Great Corner Gardens: Our Annual Paen to the...

The site of Winslow Homer's iconic paintings is the setting for a modern Maine summer house. Photo by Thomas Rainer One of my favorit...

Lagoon Park in Santa Barbara by Van Atta Associates.  Photo by Saxon Holt I recently read a wonderful and thought-provoking article by P...

Between Two Worlds I am a landscape architect by profession. It is a career I chose out of passion and calling. I love the nobility of th...

The dramatic shift toward native and sustainable gardening in the last decade is remarkable. As images of giant plumes of oil spilling int...

  Gardeners: throw away those glossy coffee table books. Everything you need to learn is in the black and white planting plans of the grea...