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Outdoor Rooms We Love
Green walls form outdoor rooms as well as wood. From HGTV, a garden I submitted to Rate My Space on page 5 of “Outdoor Rooms We Love From Rate My Space” illustrates this concept. Happily its one of eight favorite garden rooms selected by viewers. See it at http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/outdoor-rooms-we-love-from-rate-my-space/pictures/page-5.html Read more
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APLD Member of the Month
Check out my project featured as APLD Member-of-the-Month. The classic fountain I designed above is part of the courtyard design of this estate project. Use the link: http://www.apld.com/apldmembers/featured.asp Read more
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Yellow’s Cheerful Complement
Yellow Hemerocallis ‘Happy Returns’ and the yellow-orange Coreopsis brightens the purple spikes of Salvia and low mound of lavender blue Nepeta ‘6 Hills Giant’. A quick look at the color wheel illustrates the dynamic duo as ‘complements’. In the language of color, complementary colors intensify each other like a passionate affair. Yellow reads more yellow in purple… Read more
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Rainy Sunday Saved by Orange
Donning my tangerine colored raincoat I headed out the door to church this solstice Father’s Day. I needed some cheering and the coat always does it. It’s been raining here in the Boston area for weeks or has it been months? Seems like it. I’m thinking Ken Kesey’s novel set in rainy Portland. It wasn’t the well-known ‘One… Read more
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A Few Garden Moments
Yellow perennial Digitalis grandiflora and red Dianthus ‘Frosty Fire”? highlight the foliage of Hemerocallis and Enkianthus White Iris siberica, blue and yellow Hosta ‘Francis Williams’, yellow Hosta ‘Sum and Subtance’, pink Agilegia Designed as a journey of garden moments–sometimes at first all I see are the weeds and the plants that need dead heading. Then the… Read more
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June Bursts
Growing up the house was filled with the sound of Broadway musicals. That’s probably why the refrain “June is bursting out all over” (which may be the title too) that applies so aptly to the garden this time of year serenaded me as I visited my garden. Just that refrain mind you. Have no idea what… Read more