Making Gardens

When we work with nature, we can use its habits to our advantage.

I spend a lot of time looking at what’s already growing around the property. It’s what the land wants to become. And it’s a clue to what to plant.

When you’re in the garden, you’re in a process that started long before you put a shovel into the ground and will continue long after you’re gone.

Why the design process isn’t done when the plants are put in the ground. (And why that’s a pleasant thing.)

Our gardens offer everything a deer could ever possibly want. So what do we do with the deer we attract?

What my septic bed is teaching me about feeling at home.

Before you decide what your cottage landscape should become, it helps to notice what it’s already becoming.

“Finished” is a lie our landscaping culture keeps telling itself. And the pressure to get there is why your property feels like a chore instead of a place.