Making Gardens

Why sometimes site conditions, client preferences and native plants just don’t mix.

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.