A Room with a View
The large window in my home office looks out onto a deep backyard, where weeping willows and majestic sequoias in adjacent properties extend the view so that my back garden looks much bigger than its actual size. This panorama, unfortunately, is ... [... more]
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A Big Garden on a Small Lot
When my clients built a two-story house on a corner lot, they also wanted a garden of their dreams and a landscape to set the house to its best advantage. The rooms in the Prairie-style house have a wonderful sense of space and proportion, and we ... [... more]
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A Backyard Makeover
As a designer and builder of gardens, I'm often challenged to transform a forlorn yard into a personal Eden. When I first met with my client, Tim O'Hearn, in his backyard in Portland, Oregon, this proved to be the case once again. He envisioned a ... [... more]
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Four Ideas for Screening a Yard - Fine Gardening Article
Garden historians believe that the very first gardens were created as places of refuge from enemies. Although my worst enemies these days are rabbits, raccoons, and deer, I still have a desire for enclosure and privacy. Perhaps this is because I ... [... more]
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Integrating a Pool Into a Landscape
As a landscape designer, I often get harried phone calls from potential clients who describe the horrors of a project already underway. This was certainly the case with Candace and David Beaulieu's swimming pool. The project started out simply ... [... more]
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A Tale of Two Side Yards
I like to wander around my small urban garden in Seattle as often as I can. Along the way, I look at the smallest of details and the big picture as well. Whether I start in the front or the back, I always go in a loop and return to where I began. ... [... more]
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Plants Enclose an In-Town Lot
To enclose the front garden, I started by planting large shrubs and trees at the property corners to screen the power lines from view. I did this with evergreen Burford and Foster's hollies ( From the street, these limbed-up trees and shrubs add ... [... more]
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Transforming a Barren Backyard
When my sister and her husband asked our landscaping firm to design and build the garden for their new home in Vancouver, Washington, we were both flattered and challenged. The budget was more than adequate, but the property offered little ... [... more]
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Redesigning the Backyard
Throw open the back door, step outside, and survey your empire. What have you got? Let's say it's a boring sweep of turf with all the allure of an overgrown billiard table. Across that monotonous swath of green lies another monotonous swath of ... [... more]
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Go Green on the Patio
Patios and WalkwaysDo it Now / Do it Fast / Do it Right®More Info [... more]
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Creating a Private Haven
From the lower level of our home near downtown Atlanta, we looked out onto an ugly, sloping pad of broken-up concrete. Beyond that were weeds and a fallen tree stump left over from Hurricane Opal's visit in 1995. Our small backyard-60 feet wide [... more]
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