Category Archives: Landscape Design

May62013
Garden Inspiration: Luciano Giubblei’s Parterre Ideas

I’ve been a member of Pinterest almost since its inception.  I use it as place to store ideas both useful and random.  I also explore other designer’s boards to see what inspires them and maybe understand a little bit about … Read more

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  1. Philadelphia Flower Show 2011
  2. Tuesday’s Find…bargain hunting
  3. Departures and Debuts
LABELS: Creative Process, Design, Gardens, inspiration, Landscape Design 2 Comments

Apr122013
A Facelift for a Tudor Grand Dame

Some of my favorite landscape design projects involve American Tudors.  I love the romance of these houses, their quirky details, their materials and how often they survive the wrecking ball.  Many of these homes were built in the 1920s and … Read more

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  1. Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration
  2. In my Reader…three books
  3. Field Trip: Terrain at Styer’s
LABELS: American Architecture, Garden Design, Landscape Design 2 Comments

Mar192013
Tuesday’s Find: A set of 10 blue chairs

It’s spring and I’m scouting furniture and accessories for clients’ gardens and patios so I’m reviving Tuesday’s Find.  These blue steel Pascal Mourgue chairs from the mid-80s stopped my virtual browsing.  I love the color and the styling.  They can work … Read more

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  1. Wear Your Veggies! Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2012
  2. Garden Designers Roundtable: Hort Idols the Live Show!
  3. Spring is Sprung with Leaf Magazine
LABELS: American Architecture, Furniture and Accessories, Gardens, patios Leave a comment

Mar182013
Design Inspiration: Black and White Stripes

I’ve become slightly obsessed with black and white stripes.  The bold and graphic quality combined with what can be a vibrating optical illusion is energetic and brash…two things that I always like anyway.  The really interesting thing about stripey black … Read more

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  1. In my Reader…three books
  2. Garden Design Details: Painted Wood
  3. Garden A Go-Go
LABELS: color, Gardens, Landscape Design 2 Comments

Mar112013
Spring is Sprung with Leaf Magazine

I hope you’re not tired of hearing about the new issues of Leaf and my involvement with them.  I think the latest issue–out today– Spring 2013–is as good, if not better, than those that have come before it. It’s a great … Read more

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  1. Blogfest 2011
  2. An Afternoon in Berkeley
  3. Virtual Wanderlust…Le Pavillion de Galon
LABELS: Garden Centers, gardeners, Gardens, Hamamelis x intermedia, Landscape Design Leave a comment

Jan222013
Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration

I’m totally obsessed with winter gardens.  The thing is though, by spring, just like everyone else I get caught up in the sexier spring and summer seasons and completely forget to plant for winter.  This year I’m going to try … Read more

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  1. The Drawing Board
  2. Garden Designers Roundtable: Hort Idols the Live Show!
  3. Monday 45 | A Year of Mondays
LABELS: Gardens, Heptacodium miconiodes, inspiration, Landscape Design, winter 16 Comments

Oct222012
My Dirty, Little Garden Secret

Yes, I have a secret.  You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything about my own gardens this year.  That’s because I have a dirty, little secret about them. Here it is.  For the past year I have done … Read more

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  1. Aspirational Garden Design
  2. Garden Design Lessons from Vogue?
  3. Tuesday’s Find…Modernist planters
LABELS: Gardens, Landscape Design, Planting Design 9 Comments

Oct122012
Virtual Wanderlust…Le Pavillion de Galon

Every now and then I get sucked in.  I wander off my intended path and Voila! I find something wonderful, better yet when the possibility exists to stay there.  I love the gardens at Le Pavillon de Galon, a bed … Read more

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  1. Garden Color Inspiration: Navy Blue
  2. In my Reader…Tokyo DIY Gardening
  3. Tuesday’s Find…rethinking tree guards
LABELS: Dining al fresco, France, Gardens, inspiration, Landscape Design 1 Comment

Oct22012
Carved in Stone

There’s a current and rather annoying trend to share words of wisdom in graphic form on Pinterest and Facebook.  I’ve been known to share said same on the former as the link proves. These are careless, superficial toss-offs pearls of wisdom … Read more

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  1. Hubert de Givenchy and Gardens
  2. Blogfest 2011
LABELS: Gardens, inspiration, Stone Leave a comment

Sep262012
Guadeloupe, Gardens, and Prie Dieu

Have you ever visited a garden that as a whole didn’t speak to you but parts of it made you smile?  That happened to me last week.  A garden I visited incorporated an extensive and lively collection of Mexican folk … Read more

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  1. House & Garden (British)
  2. Antique Cart Wheels
LABELS: California, folk art, garden ornaments, garden visits, Gardens, Landscape Design, vintage Leave a comment