The Photography of Darren Higgins The border serves as a buffer to the road in a part of the yard that was pointless as lawn. Photo by ...

The duck blind in our border garden. Wouldn’t you know it: the one garden I designed that I'm sheepish to show even to my friends...

The next future plants? Or not quite garden-worthy? How great plantsmen use superior plant selection to elevate their designs  Le...

It is November, and for a few brief weeks in autumn, I enjoy my garden. Other than bulbs, there is little to plant. And my constant se...

The question of how we compose ornamental plants in beds—particularly whether species are mixed together or in solid masses—is now movin...

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...