Garden Center Scene This year I have visited many of the garden centers, greenhouses and nurseries in my area of Central Ohio. It inspired a decision to do a series of posts to highlight the ones that I like and tell you more about them. That is coming right up, since I have been (after […]
Good garden design ideas
More Design Thoughts
Thanks to Rob for mentioning Terence Conran in connection with my Ikea illustration for Everyday Design. It inspired me to see what was current for this well-known designer (whose books I had read a good ten years or more ago when we were planning to remodel our kitchen). I’m a research fiend and read everything […]
Our Prairie Home
One of the things I love about garden writers is the way they express the familiar through new eyes. I may not agree completely on their take of it, but it brings me into a new appreciation of something that I might have cataloged and then filed away in some obscure forgotten corner of my […]
Summer Containers in Bloom
Took pictures of some of my containers, I especially liked the shady one with salmon impatiens, caladium, ivy and the strawberry begonia. As of today I had to cut back the sunny combination of blue salvia, yellow petunias, African daisies, and million bells. I always enjoy the container flowers. They are presently my annual gardens, […]
More From My Town
There were a large number of ideas in that one “High Victorian” garden…so let me focus on a few of those as well as a few others of different style…. I liked this quietly landscaped sideyard for a couple reasons. One is the inclusion of a fringe tree, which is not a widely used ornamental […]
Color Harmony: July Pink
I usually attach a color idea of orange and yellow to July, maybe because of the bright light, or the fact that many flowers in those hues are in full bloom in this month. But pink is still a garden color that while warming towards salmon in many of July’s bloom choices helps to cool […]
