Spring Greens
Spring greens—mustard, miner’s lettuce, radish—grow wild in the orchards on my Sacramento Valley farm. They’re not indigenous to this part of California, but efforts at […]
Plan Your Garden
The Craft of Interplanting with Jacqueline van der Kloet
Dutch garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet plants bulbs in an unusual way, creating painterly results in the garden. For a slide show of her […]
Shape Shifters
We don’t know who the first gardener was to look at a boxwood shrub and see its inner cube, but we do know that the […]
Lay Your Own Path
See our article “Set In Stone” about different types of gravel and its growing popularity. Thank you to Michael Donnellan of Summerhill Landscapes in Sag […]
Designing a Backyard Shed
Working with Seattle photographer William Wright to create Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways, I have visited close to 100 sheds occupying city gardens, suburban backyards […]
8 Tools for the Beginner Gardener
It’s easy to go overboard with purchasing gardening tools. The latest equipment promises a new level of expertise previously unrivaled, not to mention ease of […]
Stretch the Season with Container Plantings
Nothing brings new life to a fading midsummer garden like some fresh container plantings. Try these “recipes” for plant combinations created by Seattle landscape designers […]
Tips for a Kitchen Garden
Just as the kitchen is seen as the heart of a house, I see the kitchen garden as the heart of a garden. When growing […]
Mara Seibert’s (Seibert Rice) Garden
The morning of her son’s graduation party, Mara Seibert walked out onto the terrace of her Short Hills, New Jersey, home and gazed out over […]
Magic Number: Piet Blanckaert’s Textural Garden
How many plants does it take to make a garden? Sounds like a good topic for a thesis-in horticulture or philosophy. Among painters, a common […]