What if there was no landscaping . . . only wild plant communities?  If you have a freestanding house in America, you probably ...

Is intermingling really more ecological? Or just the stylized look of ecology? This summer the Highline had its four year anniversary...

Why Landscape Architects are Getting Beyond the Grid. A spate of recent landscape architecture projects are loosening up the traditio...

While I still feel like a complete blogging newbie, Grounded Design is now over three years old.  Since blog years are like dog years ( a ...

My favorite selections from a year of experimentation The wet spring and early summer has been a blessing and curse in the border th...

The United States of Mulch.  Why do we use too much mulch?  What is the alternative? One of the idiosyncrasies of the built Americ...

Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.”  Charlemagne t...

Thoughts on Noel Kingsbury's contribution and a review of his latest book with Piet Oudolf Noel Kingsbury is the great chroni...

The very nature of nature is changing. What then about our gardens? Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage at Dungeness. Photo by Micha...

I recently caught up with author and landscape architect, Travis Beck, whose recent book Principles of Ecological Landscape Design was...

I have the pleasure of talking with different groups about landscape architecture, garden design, and sustainable design.   This winter and...