Wolfgang Oehme, one of the most influential and brilliant plantsman of the last century, passed away today.  Wolfgang, along with h...

Lust.  The first time I saw a picture of Jacques Wirtz's cloud hedges, I wanted them.  Of course, I often look upon glossy magazin...

Black Walnut Dispatch , written by Virginia based gardener and garden designer Mary Gray, is one of the best new garden blogs I’ve come ac...

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...