Large pots are delight in a garden. Pots are perhaps the purest expression of planting design. Composing a pot is like a chef creating a sa...

This year, my wife and I made a token attempt to start a garden. We managed to pull ourselves away from the home renovation long enough to ...

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’...

Marcus de la Fleur's design for a residence using native plants prompts the question: does using natives in wild patterns help or hu...

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...

The same rules that create impact and drama in art can be applied to perennial planting. My last post set up my proposition that perennia...

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

 Photo of Reservation 232 taken in 1927 (photo courtesy of Historical Society of Washington)  Gardening for me is mostly a solitar...

Pink Muhly Grass ( Muhlenbergia capillaris ) has seduced garden designers for the last decade.   Its haze of hot pink inflorescences set th...

I occasionally get requests for to speak to garden clubs, public agencies, or other groups.  I love nothing more than talking with other int...

This spring my wife and I started to convert the expanse of lawn around our newly purchased ranch house into gardens.  While we focus on r...