Making Gardens

How “orderly frames” help us engage with the landscape and “messy middles” make it truly beautiful.

How to use native plants to enhance the view between your cottage and the lake.

Some plants are useful. But they can also do more harm than good. Here are some native alternatives.

Shade doesn’t have to be about hostas and ferns. Instead, how about a sedge meadow?

How we follow nature to create landscapes that mostly look after themselves.

When we work on our designs, we identify their inherent patterns and then amplify them to create landscapes that are inherently pleasing.

Here are three useful ways to make sure we choose plants that will thrive with little management.

Here’s what we know about how to garden naturally – in 18 short paragraphs.

Working with the seasons helps us create landscapes that are as beautiful to nature as they are to us.

Understanding sociability could be the difference between a self-sustaining plant community and a landscape that fights its own nature.