Inspiring

Garden Gallery: Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Fleming’s – Best Show – 2013 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The medals have been posted for the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show.  There are lots of great gardens to share, but I am going to start with those that won best in show for their category. The Aussie team behind the Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Fleming’s has been awarded Best in Show. I can only imagine [...]

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Before & After: Shannon’s Charming Backyard Retreat

  I came across Shannon’s blog 8FOOT6 while I was out perusing blogs during my weekly Before & After hunt. Her house is incredibly charming and as soon as I saw this before shot I knew the after was going to look like a million bucks.

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Before & After: Heather’s Front Yard Makeover

I spent a pretty good heap of time out in the yard today and I’m actually feeling quite good about how far I got [not the usual case...]. While I was removing a never ending sea of river rocks I remembered that today is Before and After day on Studio ‘g’ and I started to [...]

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Before & After: Humphry Repton

I love sharing before and after shots.  They are so effective at capturing the sum total of a whole lot of work and subsequently are great inspiration.   I never really considered whether or not the whole concept and tool was being used before photography.  If I thought about it, I would have guessed not.  But British landscape designer [...]

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What Would it Take to Get You Outside?

This morning in my yoga class my teacher shared a dirty little secret.  She used to smoke <gasp>. This is confession was part of her sharing a realization that when she once had this habit (many years ago) it did have a very positive upside…..she did it outside.  Part of her smoking habit was to retire outside [...]

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Spring Tulip Planters

I love changing out my containers for the seasons.  After many years of doing this sort of thing for clients on a large-scale, it is nice to just do one or two around my own house — I can play and experiment in a way that isn’t always possible when the arrangement has to meet [...]

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Trend: Shelved Gardens

A couple of months back I was chatting with a new garden friend when she openly wondered what the next big garden trend will be.  I have to admit — while I look for design trends all the time…I hadn’t thought much about the big arcs of our collective garden specific tastes.  I think it is fair [...]

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