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My husband Brian and I have installed three gardens in my over 20 year career as a landscape designer. I wrote this article in 2004 while we were installing our third [...]

Your new garden is installed and looks great yet the patio seems blah. What should you do? Garden furniture and colored accents can create that wow factor that we want in [...]

Sometimes bad drainage can be improved by amending the soil, but other times that is just not enough. Back when I was only 23 years old and had no idea [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that I will have a garden featured in the 2015 ANLD Designers Garden Tour. This will be my third garden in the tour over the past [...]

I had two holes in my garden that resulted from an old viburnum passing away and my miscanthus getting so big it kept flopping over. I’d planned dividing the miscanthus, [...]

When I pull into my driveway in the evening, I’m greeted with a delightful show of light and shadow. I appreciate the same show while I’m enjoying dinner in my [...]

My husband Brian and I like to collect over-used words and phrases. We declare that a word we’ve heard 39 times in the past week is over-used and then we [...]

Ten years ago Brian, my husband and I moved into my third home as a landscape designer. We chose this home for a number of reasons: it is within a [...]