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Inspired Design: Living Lightly on the Land
Fine Gardening — Environmentally responsible design principles for home and garden Maybe it's the optimist in me, but I feel as though we've reached a tipping point with regard to the public's awareness and acceptance of our responsibility to do something ...More…
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Composing with Conifers
Fine Gardening — For a dynamic look, contrast different shapes and colors When my husband and I built a new house filled with large windows, I wanted beautiful views all year-round. Perennial borders were my first choice, until I remembered that they require ...More…
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Bringing Sun and Shade Together
Fine Gardening — Show off what these extremes have to offer, then unite them with some common ground The confines of an average city lot can befuddle ardent gardeners, even more so those obsessive collectors who never tire of adding new plants to their garden. ...More…
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Fuzzy, Prickly and Tickly to Touch
Fine Gardening — Richly textured plants invite you to stop and feel the foliage I don't take an evening paper, but the paper girl stops by my house every afternoon. I just saw her, stroking the golden, silky petals of my California poppies ( Touching my plants ...More…
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Expansive Solutions for Small Gardens
Fine Gardening — A landscape architect shares his tricks for making tight spaces seem bigger For me, the intent of landscape design is to create an environment that's both wonderful to see and delightful to experience. This environment is more easily realized ...More…
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Designing on an Axis
Fine Gardening — Use paths, hedges, and focal points to create a garden of narrow, formal vistas When I came here to Duck Hill 20 years ago, there was no trace of a garden. No terraces, no hedges, no paths or steps surrounded my new home. To my dismay, no flowers ...More…
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Pleasing Rhythm Makes a Garden Sing
Fine Gardening — Play with repetition, positive and negative space, and pacing to evoke a sense of movement and mood Music is not just about the playing or singing of musical notes; it's also about the spaces and dynamic tension- or rhythm-created between those ...More…
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Pick Plants for Fragrance
Fine Gardening — As a child, I was fascinated by the intoxicating scent of my mother's peonies, which I would pick by the armloads to fill every vase in the house. I had forgotten the joy that sweet scents can bring until years later when I was visiting a garden ...More…
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The Value of Voluptous Curves
Fine Gardening — I'll admit it. When I have a hard time convincing a client to let me create the sweeping arcs, spirals, and semicircles I love, I simply say, "I'd like to create some curves-voluptuous curves." Slowly, a smile appears across her-or his ...More…
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Plant by Number
Fine Gardening — The key to a design's success is understanding how many plants to use and how to arrange them Picture yourself at the garden center salivating in front of that hot new perennial or the hard-to-find shrub you've coveted for the last few years. You ...More…
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A Garden Story in Three Parts
Fine Gardening — A landscape can be a narrative offering a beginning, a middle, and an end It's a woodland story-you know that right away-but the rest is a mystery. Do you hear water? Music? Mozart perhaps? Some laughing far away? You are beginning chapter one of ...More…
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Making Opposites Attractive
Fine Gardening — Contrast is a versatile design principle, and this garden shows that there are countless ways to use it I've been designing gardens for a decade or so, and I've been studying them for at least another decade. In addition to traveling to see many . ...More…