Oxford College of Garden Design: Plant Hardiness Zones for Europe, US, Canada, China, Japan & Australia

Oxford College of Garden Design: Plant Hardiness Zones for Europe, US, Canada, China, Japan & Australia

grounded design: Garden Design Trends 2012

grounded design: Garden Design Trends 2012: Cleve West's winning design for Chelsea Flower Show Each New Year, the internet is abuzz with it the inevitable horde of prophets an...

Pitlochry proceeds

Despite times of heavy rain, much of the construction of walls and steps is now complete, Unlikely that seeding of a lawn will happen before the onset of cold weather as the soil is far too wet for seed-bed preparation.

Loch Tay revisited

It's always enjoyable to return to a project after 10 years to see how it has matured, how the spaces work to create an integrated landscape, what works and what could have been done better. The setting for this garden made it a challenge - you can't compete with a loch and mountains but you can introduce human scale and allow them to set the scene.

Pitlochry garden under construction. Out of chaos comes forth?

At first it looked like this.

And now it looks like this.  Retaining walls to terrace a slope end then allow a level lawn to be installed. In the meantime chaos reigns.

grounded design: Beyond the Border 4: Maintaining Perennials to Las...

grounded design: Beyond the Border 4: Maintaining Perennials to Las...: This is the final post in a series I’ve been doing on how to design perennials and grasses in landscape settings. By landscape settings, I’...

grounded design: Beyond the Border Part 2: Massing Matters

grounded design: Beyond the Border Part 2: Massing Matters: "The same rules that create impact and drama in art can be applied to perennial planting. My last post set up my proposition that perennia..."