What are some of the favorite fall perennials for garden designers? Here are a few landscape ideas that are best for fall gardens.
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DREAMING OF GARDENS
In gardening like baseball, with spring comes a new planting season and hope springs eternal. What should you plant?
Read MoreWHAT IS A SPRING EPHEMERAL?
Garden designers orchestrate flower bloom interest throughout all the seasons. Spring ephemerals fill an early void in the spring landscape design in the garden.
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Grey Birch. If I had to just plant one tree, this is it. I can't imagine any tree more beautiful in the the winter landscape than this native.
Read More5 FAVORITE SHRUBS FOR WINTER INTEREST
Winter may be the most challenging season, but also the season that tests one's talents as a garden designer!
When doing a planting plan many garden designers, landscape designers, landscape architects design for the winter landscape first, then orchestrate their plant palette for the remaining three seasons afterwords.
Here are five favorite shrubs for zone 7 New York City gardens. Do you agree? Which shrubs would you add to this list?
Read More5 BEST SHRUBS FOR FALL COLOR
The beauty of fall color surpasses all other seasonal highlights. It's a joy to create a colorful nyc garden design among the grey buildings and early winter skies. Here are my five favorite shrubs for fall, whether I've planted them on a roof garden, brownstone yard, residential property or college campus landscape. A late-season garden is best described by a landscape designer friend.. "with all the plants flopping over, somewhat disheveled from their perfect summer form, it's as if we're at a party where everyone stayed a bit too long!"
Read MoreMY MOTHER TAUGHT ME TO STEAL. SEEDS.
If you're interested in garden design, consider the illicit pastime of stealing seeds.
I have marigolds from Kew Gardens, wisteria from Dumbarton Oaks. Two days ago, I was at Wave Hill, in front of a border where I saw a spent flower head that dried up, fallen to the ground with a capsule of seeds. My daughter watched me look left, then right. No one was watching (nor there to ask) so I bent down and nonchalantly picked it up and put it in my pocket.
Years ago I wanted to taste a pawpaw fruit (Assimina triloba). I read it was one of the largest fruit in North America, the fruit was custardy, tasted like a pear/apple/banana, somewhat tropical. Early in the year I noticed a couple of these trees at a public botanical garden and planned to return later in the year after the plant had fruited. I arrived a little later than I had planned and found a couple of these pawpaw fruit had fallen to the ground. At that point I figured (or rationalized) it was either me or the rodents that are eating this. “Survival of the fittest” set in.
At the risk of being ostracized by my peers, I ask how other gardeners or plant geeks act in these situations. Have YOU been guilty of these temptations?
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THE MOST FAMOUS GARDEN IN THE UNITED STATES?
If leadership is the process by which one influences and motivates the behaviors, attitudes, and thoughts of others... then Is this the most influential garden in the United States since Jefferson created Monticello?
Perhaps the perfect site to create a garden design for a jardin potager?
NO MAINTENANCE GARDEN AND LOW MAINTENANCE GARDENING
Whether your garden is a vertical landscape design or an urban landscape design it will require some maintenance. Low or easy maintenance gardening is what many people would like to embrace, either through necessity or preference. No garden will be a zero maintenance garden but most gardening activities have a lower input solution or alternative to consider.
A landscape designer can design a low maintenance garden, but there is no such situation where it could be a...
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