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When the Garden Says No: Intention vs. Reality

Making & Materials

A collage featuring green architectural elements and ceramic items, including a green building facade, a historic storefront, colorful cups, and a lavastone hanging lamp. Garden pots with plants complete the scene, with a text overlay highlighting glazed lavastone for garden style.

Glazed Volcanic French Lavastone for the Garden

A person in a winter coat, hat, and gloves sprays a pinkish substance on evergreen trees using a handheld sprayer. Snow is falling, and the trees have a dusting of snow on their branches, creating an intriguing mix of colors against the white backdrop.

How to Stop poachers from stealing Your Christmas-like Tree

The Case for Burning?

Making & Materials

A bowl of flowers sits on a window sill in a shell house garden folly.

Blott Kerr Wilson, Shell Houses, & the Magic of Natural Materials

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ocotillo plant blooming in the desert

Desert Gardens and Living Ocotillo Fences – Fouquieria splendens

Building a Dead Hedge: Healing the Land and Creating a Living Barrier

A rustic dead hedge made of intertwined branches and green foliage stands in a sunlit area. Above, a tree with sparse orange leaves extends its branches. The background is softly blurred, suggesting a natural area dedicated to healing the land.

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serpentine walls crinkle crankle walls

Garden Design Basics: Wavy bricks- The Reason For Serpentine Walls

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Food, Seasonality + Ritual

Garden History + Precedent

Genus Loci

Gardens as Practice

Plants

ESSAys + Signal PIeces

Planting Design & Ecology

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