This Friday December 2, I will be speaking at the fourth annual "Turning a New Leaf Conference" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  My ...

Plants are a particular passion of mine, but what fascinates me most is the way we design with plants. I’ve dedicated my professional...

“Just as there are levels of meaning and discourse in language, ranging from laundry lists to business letters, from narrative fiction...

As an admitted plant-aholic, it is pretty easy for me to fall for a plant. I have a bad habit of seeing virtue in almost every green d...

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...