Inspired Gardens and Design
Explore garden design that embraces our reciprocal relationship with nature, demonstrating the beauty of resilience, biodiversity, and respect for our local ecologies and communities.
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As the practice of landscape design evolves, our understanding of what is modern also changes. At the turn of the...
Being all too susceptible to the beauty of plants, I must, as a designer of gardens, continuously guard against my...
Mention of California mission gardens evokes romantic images of jasmine blooming under arcades, geometric beds of exotic flowers, and balconies...
A decade ago the two and one-half acre parcel of land in Vancouver, B.C., on which the Dr Sun Yat-Sen...
Gardeners, and writers about gardens, frequently claim that gardens are a form of art. Their reasons are usually aesthetic, involving...
A decade ago California, especially the north, was gripped by a drought unprecedented in modern times. Water rationing was either...
The daisy flower head of many garden favorites — a central disk surrounded by radiating “petals” — is deceptively simple....
In the preceding article I mentioned a division between, on the one hand, those gardeners who are primarily plant collectors...
It is an axiom that serious gardeners love plants for themselves. They want to possess them, to grow them, to...