If there were a nationwide contest for fall holiday decor,  New England would be the outright-no-questions-asked winner. This corner of the world goes Halloween decor crazy (your biggest, brightest holiday light display has nothing on our two-story skeletons, pumpkin towers, and a legit collection of haunted houses, creepy old graveyards, and battlefields. You can have […]

Have you thought about designing your garden specifically to revel in the joy of fall?⠀Here are some tips for improving your autumn focused garden design.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

My fall container compositions need a switch out.  The mums look tired, the veggies have given up and the grasses have not fared well in the enormous gusts of wind. Time has been escaping me lately and I am thinking that I should just transition my containers along before the next shift in the wind […]

A couple of years ago, one of my Australian garden design students mentioned that Edna Walling was a huge inspiration to her. As an American, I’d never heard of Edna Walling, an early 20th-century landscape architect who was responsible for hundreds of residential gardens across Australia. Convinced I’d find her equally inspiring, my student encouraged […]

I’m finally starting to believe that, eventually, these piles of snow will recede – we have a long way to go here in New England, but every day of runoff-wet roads lifts my winter-weary spirits.  I’ve even started to plan for new plantings. I’m hoping to add interest and variation to my garden-fresh bouquets, and […]