Mountain garden

Today Jordan Buckner is sharing photos of a beautiful garden he had the chance to visit recently. I recently visited Ohme Gardens in Wenatchee, Washington. I live 90 miles north […]

Welcome back, Bless My Weeds readers! We're starting a new series called Indigenous Inspiration to focus on native plants of several different regions. We're starting out with our favorite plants of the Mountain West. If you love the Mountain West like we do, you'll love the indigenous plants that grow there.

Today Jay Sifford, an award-winning landscape designer in North Carolina, is sharing his home garden. For the past two years, I’ve been realizing a dream that I’ve had since childhood: […]

This year I had four goals: (1) Make the garden feel enclosed; (2) create a formal entry; (3) have a balance between tall, medium, and short plants; and (4) add interest through garden art.

February 6, 2017Thomas Woltz does not look like one of the world’s most important landscape architects or, for that matter, like much of a garden person. Seated ramrod straight in his Manhattan office and wearing a tailored sport coat, dark jeans rolled at the bottom and polished black boots, he could be mistaken for the […]

RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t hire a landscaper to build a boulder wall when boulder outcroppings will do. Finished this one in the fall, will plant it this spring (June?) I see a lot of boulder walls in landscapes where the same need – keeping a hill in place – could have

Got a tricky hillside or slope?

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Why not add an Alpine rockery to your garden or turn your garden completely into an Alpine one? Here are great alpine garden design ideas.