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 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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A Front-Yard Garden in No Time
As a garden designer, I have developed many types of gardens: big, small, sunny, shady, formal, informal, classic, and contemporary. I have found, however, that no matter what kind of garden you have or desire, there does seem to be a common ... [... more]
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Say Good-bye to Weed Worries
Over the years, as I've walked from my house to a nearby track to exercise, I've noticed small, gradual changes in the way my neighbors combat weeds. Slowly, they've shifted from herbicide applications to alternative weed control methods like ... [... more]
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Front-Yard Gardens Make a Strong First Impression
Front-yard gardens can change neighborhoods. I've witnessed this both as a gardener and as a landscape architect. Years ago, I mixed some annuals and perennials among the evergreen foundation shrubs in front of my family's home. Before long, the ... [... more]
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Designing a Lawnless Front Yard
Apprehension grew in our conservative neighborhood the day the crane arrived. Those who saw it dangling 48-foot posts above our building lot could be forgiven for thinking that another monster house was under way. Such fears, however, were soon ... [... more]
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Fundamentals of Foundation Plantings
It was love and frustration that propelled me into landscape design. My love of gardening is a legacy from my grandparents. My frustration came about as a practicing architect when I observed many landscape plantings that were insensitive to a ... [... 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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