From left, a current day aerial photo of the site for Muscota Marsh Park; a graphic recreation of the site in ancient times; a 2012 design...

Is the New Perennial movement losing its integrity? Or will its expansion reinvigorate it artistically? This year on this blog, I have...

The First in a Four-part Series on Seeing Garden Design In the Light of Winter Article by Harry Wade I'm delighted to int...

This year, Grounded Design is celebrating the idea of contemporary naturalistic design, and its great diversity of expressions across the ...

What happens when America’s most promising planting designer takes time to study the world’s leading designers? Adam Woodruff is t...

What to Expect this Year on Grounded Design Tokachi Millenium Forest by Dan Pearson Studio; image by Syogo Oizumi/TMF It is the f...

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...