The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the […]
Creating a Beautiful Landscape
Ideas and inspiration, tips and opinions, guidance on style for your home landscape. I believe that most people with a little education n design concepts and exposure to great landscapes can create their own plans.
Garden Photos
Here are some pictures from the garden lately. A clematis which is supposed to be on a lattice, but I didn’t get to painting it yet… it clambers among the mugho pine. Dortmund rose is finally settling in and blooms with deep cherry single flowers. Peony, Dames Rocket, and Hansa rose blooming together in neglected […]
Purple Leaf Sand Cherry: Short-lived Shrub
I was warned. When in the midst of life (my late twenties, early thirties) and in full thrall of new garden planting, I had read that purple sand cherries were short lived shrubs. I planted a beautiful purple leaved sand cherry, anyway. For years it grew and flourished. I even planned a color scheme around […]
Spring Blooming
So much is blooming it is hard to keep up making notes on it all. The cherry trees, pear, and peach are all in bloom-probably the apples, too, but I didn’t walk out that far to check. The crabapples are breaking into bud, the ‘Snowdrift’ variety has been blooming for most of this week already. […]
July ’07 State of the Garden
Lavender Walk I have been gardening, not blogging, and this was one of my resolutions for 2007. So far so good. It has been hot here, but we received some rain earlier this month; a huge downpour on the Fourth, which as a lady at Curve’s said “We will take what ever comes and not […]
Don’t Miss
Perhaps you are more aware of Raven’s Nest than I was; if so, you perhaps read this excellent post on grasses in the landscape. I have long been looking at grasses as a way to make my gardens more in keeping with the environs here ( this was once prairie), but that isn’t the only […]
