Monthly Archives: July 2010

Jul302010
In my Reader…Design for Mankind

This one’s pretty eclectic.  I’ve culled some garden design related images from Erin Loechner’s Design For Mankind who culls them from everywhere.  Links back to the original source are on every post. It’s a fast and furious inspirational blog with … Read more

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  1. In my Reader…Nowness
  2. Rite of Spring
LABELS: Design, Garden Styles, Gardens, inspiration 2 Comments

Jul282010
Grounds for Sculpture

Last Sunday I met up with a group of my peers from APLDNJ for a summer social and private tour of Grounds for Sculpture.  I hadn’t been in a few years, so enough time had passed for me to see … Read more

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  1. Philadelphia Flower Show 2011
  2. In my Reader…Tokyo DIY Gardening
  3. Monday 2 | A Year of Mondays Project
LABELS: Garden Styles, garden visits, New Jersey, plants, sculpture 8 Comments

Jul272010
Garden Designers Roundtable – Underused Plant(s)

Underused plants is a totally subjective topic based only on one person’s experience.  So bear in mind that I’m the non-plant obsessed designer of the group! I have visited many, many gardens and I’ve only seen this plant in three … Read more

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  1. Spring is Sprung with Leaf Magazine
  2. Late Winter Plants in glorious bloom!
  3. 2010 Top 5 Posts–Yours!
LABELS: Garden Designers Roundtable, Gardens, Heptacodium miconiodes 21 Comments

Jul262010
Monday 26 | A Year of Mondays

Finally a cool summer morning after weeks of oppressive heat and humidity.  The slowest painter in the world should be finished this week and the most damage will be done to the garden–he left the foundation for last.  I am … Read more

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  1. Monday 44 | A Year of Mondays
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LABELS: Creative Process, Year of Mondays 4 Comments

Jul232010
In my Reader…The Good Garden

There’s a new garden lifestyle blog in town and it’s worth a look.  The Good Garden is Sarah Kinbar’s brand new blog.  In case you don’t know, Sarah was also the Editor in Chief of Garden Design magazine for the … Read more

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  1. In my Reader…Design for Mankind
  2. In my Reader…Slow Love Life
  3. In my Reader…Myburgh Designs
LABELS: blogs, Gardens 3 Comments

Jul222010
Bollywood and Vine

It’s hot, really hot and humid in New Jersey.  As a matter of fact it’s hot in most of the United States, so I went looking for some hot inspiration. I want color, glamour and fun.  Where did I look … Read more

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  1. Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration
  2. Monday 33 | A Year of Mondays
  3. Macato Murayama’s Technical Flower Drawings
LABELS: Garden Styles, Gardens, India 4 Comments

Jul212010
A Tale of Two Fences…

One of the big benefits of having a visual memory is that I frequently connect images that have only a tenuous relationship to each other. These urban fences are almost 3000 miles apart.  Both are extraordinary designs.  Both stand on … Read more

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  1. Aspirational Garden Design
  2. Grounds for Sculpture
  3. Miss R on the road…visiting gardens
LABELS: Buffalo, Design, Fences, Garden Styles, Portland, Travel 2 Comments

Jul192010
Monday 25 | A Year of Mondays

I went outside today expecting nothing.  The garden is in a state of profound neglect.  Heat, no appreciable rain, deer and the slowest painters on the face of the universe have had their effect.  What I found suprised me. There … Read more

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  1. Tuesday’s Find…a fan
  2. Tuesday’s Find: A set of 10 blue chairs
  3. Online Garden Shop: Shop Boxhill
LABELS: Gardens, Year of Mondays 3 Comments

Jul162010
In my Reader…Vulgare

A quick trip to Vulgare is often all I need to get a shot of inspiration.  Written by Thomas Barbey in collaboration with Olivier Cazin, this blog is a eclectic cornucopia of images and ideas of landscapes and the natural … Read more

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  1. Philadelphia Flower Show 2011
  2. Late Winter Plants in glorious bloom!
  3. Virtual Wanderlust…Le Pavillion de Galon
LABELS: Garden Design, Garden Styles, inspiration, Landscape Design 2 Comments

Jul152010
To Buffa10 with Love – Part 2

I have to learn to take more pictures.  When I travel I’m so intent on absorbing the mood and fabric of a place that I don’t look through my lens as often as I could.  Buffa10 was one of those … Read more

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  1. A Quick Start to the New Year
  2. Shift in Perception
  3. Garden Design Details: Cleveland Underfoot
LABELS: American Architecture, Travel 15 Comments