Planting the New California Garden Part 1: Linda Middleton, APLD
This is the first in a 4-part series we’ve named Planting the New California Garden. Throughout 2017 we’ll be highlighting the work of APLD designers…
Plants: Flowering plants, vines, and bulbs
Winter Sweet
Oregon designer Darcy Daniels aims to create garden compositions that please all year— including winter.
Forcing Branches
Cheat winter by forcing branches of spring-flowering deciduous woody plants for naturalistic indoor arrangements and bring a breath of fresh air to st…
Germinate, Renewal & Reinvention
Most gardeners I know look at every New Year as another chance for renewal and reinvention. I know I do. Improvisation and seasonal rhythms—along with…
Connect with Nature
Humans crave green and hunger for nature. Garden project books to satisfy and inspire.
Designing for Today’s Garden
New ways of looking at the landscape and designing gardens that are resilient, adaptive, and beautiful.
Gardening in a Post-Wild World
“I think wildness matters more now than it ever has... We have to look at the landscapes we live in as places as places where nature could be.” …
Planting Design for Dry Gardens
Olivier Filippi masterfully guides us to adopt appropriate groundcovers and other plants for a summer-dry, mediterranean-influenced climate.
The Authentic Garden
As author Richard Hartlage states in the introduction to The Authentic Garden, “Garden designers all stand on the tilled ground of the practitioners that came…