Blog of the Week

Valentine Garden DIY: Camilla’s Simple Flower Gifts

Family Chic, the blog home of Camilla Fabbri, is one of my new favorite online haunts.  She is a woman after my own thrift-shopping, transforming, incessant small project, heart.  Except she seems to be able to get her projects completed, where as mine tend to languish for months on end in my basement ”project” area.  [...]

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Blogs I Like: January 2011

A couple month break not withstanding, I am happy to share with you the latest edition of Blogs I Like.  See you in February! The Gardeners Eden – Michaela writes in a lovely style about her garden (called Ferncliff), gardening, photography and living a beautiful design inspired life in Vermont.  Its worth a visit for [...]

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Top Ten (Most Visited) Garden Design Posts

I have never before checked the numbers to see which posts you all click on the most (shame on me for being a bad blogger!).  But now that I have, I am wondering if just because you click on it the most, does that mean that these are your favorites? I love these, but some [...]

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There are Things Awry Here

I am terribly light on the posting and I am sorry for that.  I am trying to get my ducks in order for the holidays as well as organize what feels like an epic shift in my own career focus.   I have decided to pare down my work in some areas in order to ramp [...]

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Changing Seasons

I am struck today by the epic shift that not only am I feeling but it seems also so many around me feeling too.  It shouldn’t be a surprise to me that other designer and gardener types are moving into another gear, after all, winter is coming.  But I am feeling a bigger shift.  Perhaps [...]

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Blogs I like – October 2010

How did September and October go for you?  Mine — were a bit out of control — but it is November 1st and is a new day. I am ready to be refreshed and organized in a new way.  First on the list is to give October a proper close out with the return off [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Healing Gardens – A Tale About What Makes a Garden Healing

Here is the thing. I cringed when I realized that I had inadvertently signed up to post about Healing Gardens. What do I know about “Healing gardens”? Little. Except that most I see make me wince. It’s the overworked themes, twee fiddily-ness, garden junk, and green nooks that are often tortuously carved out of places [...]

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