November 02, 2018
Garden destination Austin: My article in The American Gardener
Are you curious to know what Austin is like as a garden destination? If so, check out my article in The American Gardener magazine …
The elegant Pepper Garden with a water view
A flowery, elegant garden with a water view and beach access at the Seattle home of Vangie and Daniel Pepper …
Playfulness and planters in the garden of Richard Hartlage
The Seattle garden of Richard Hartlage, president of Land Morphology design firm, is a playful space with a flair for the theatrical …
Floating on an evergreen cloud in the garden of Tanya Bednarski
Enclosed by evergreen hedges, the serene courtyard garden of Tanya Bednarski is anything but boring with cloud-pruned boxwood and glass art …
Taming a hillside with terraces and sculpture in Bonnie Berk’s garden
Seattle gardener Bonnie Berk installed terracing to tame her intimidatingly steep yard, adding large sculptures to entice visitors uphill …
More exuberance at the Sparler-Schouten Garden, part 2
More garden goodness — plants and playful garden art — in Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten’s Garden of Exuberant Refuge. Here’s Part 2 …
Exploring the Garden of Exuberant Refuge, part 1
The Garden of Exuberant Refuge is the happy creation of Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten in Seattle, colorful, quirky, irreverent, and playful …
Hanging on in the late summer garden
August can’t end soon enough for my crispy Texas garden and my own crispy self. But we had a little rain a couple days ago …
Exploring Dan Hinkley’s Windcliff, part 2
Exploring the blufftop garden at Windcliff, Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones’s garden that overlooks Puget Sound in Indianola, Washington …
Winding my way through Windcliff, part 1
Seeing Windcliff, the private garden of plantsman Dan Hinkley and architect Robert Jones, was a huge draw on the Puget Sound Fling tour …
Colorful garden with a view of Puget Sound
The Brindleys opted for flower color, masses of grasses, and sculptural focal points for their garden overlooking Puget Sound …
Heronswood’s shady woodland and tribe-influenced Renaissance Garden
Part 2 of my July visit to Heronswood, including the woodland and Renaissance Garden with its Raining Wall and fern table …
Heronswood pilgrimage: House garden and formal garden
I visited Heronswood in Puget Sound, a garden I’ve wanted to see for years. Here’s Part 1, featuring the house and formal gardens …
Nancy Heckler’s hydrangea-colorful woodland garden
Nancy Heckler is a plant collector with more than 100 hydrangeas alone. All those flowering shrubs made for a beautiful sight at our visit …
