Speechless: A Northern Garden Comes into its Own
Upon hearing that my New Perennial pond garden just won a 2020 Honour Award in Landscape Design, the highest such honour from the US-based Perennial Plant Association, I find myself lost for words. I...
View ArticleWildscaping: The Home Edition
Over the past few years, I've been too busy making new gardens to actually find the time to write about them. We're only now at a point where I can sit down to share something of the bigger picture....
View ArticleThe Wildscaping Talk: Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design
I'm ecstatic to present my latest talk focused on the wilder frontiers of designed landscapes. We delivered the talk live to an international audience of gardeners and designers in early April. If you...
View ArticleWildscape Update: New Talks
When I first posted my idea for Wildscaping here in spring 2019, it was with the secret hope that both the word and its spirit might take on a life of its own. Like a message in a digital bottle. We...
View ArticleLet’s Build Wildlife Habitat into Everyday Places Everywhere
Where others see trash in an industrial wasteland, John Little sees the raw materials to create startlingly effective ecological habitat. For 25 years now, this English innovator has worked to recycle,...
View ArticlePiet Oudolf At Work: A Conversation
Right from its plain brown-wrap cover, the new book 'Piet Oudolf At Work' strikes a different chord in how it chooses to show and tell its story. Oudolf has always been a visual thinker and his...
View ArticleTrees for the Future
The best time to plant a tree will be right after you watch this talk. Catch up on the latest thinking in tree selection for climate resilience, carbon storage, boosting biodiversity, and other...
View ArticleDesigning with Randomness: A Masterclass in Planting Design
Join me on the leading-edge with James Hitchmough, Professor Emeritus of University of Sheffield, a genius innovator and iconoclast in modern planting design. James will catch us up on his latest...
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