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garden design

What goes with what, and what goes where? Ideas from designers I have interviewed and other such inspiration are all here.

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making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser

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natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

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design tips from american gardens: ‘american roots’ with nick mccullough

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cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

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crevice gardens: brave new rock gardens, with kenton seth and paul spriggs

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flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

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solutions for dry shade and other shady spots, with ken druse

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gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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why garden design begins with acceptance, with james golden

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tips for the shade gardener, from ken druse

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reading the garden’s layers with an eye to enhanced design, with david culp

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monocots: a geeky theme for collecting plants and designing gardens, with ken druse

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dividing and editing perennials, with wethersfield’s toshi yano

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how texture and variegation beat august’s garden lull, with ken druse

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‘natural community gardening,’ with patrick mcmillan of heronswood

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garden-sized trees and how to use them, with bruce crawford

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beyond organic gardening: ecological horticulture, with rebecca mcmackin

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dreaming of a ‘new heirloom garden,’ with ellen ecker ogden

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starting over: page dickey’s new book ‘uprooted,’ on making a new garden

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lessons learned in making a garden: ‘windcliff,’ with dan hinkley

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turning ‘lawns into meadows,’ with owen wormser

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lessons in ecology from mount auburn cemetery, with david barnett

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leaves first: favorite foliage to unify the garden, with ken druse

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‘spirit of place:’ designing and defining a garden that belongs, with bill noble

'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener