Holiday Garden Shows
on Nov 20, 2009 in Events Christmas shows gardens holiday garden shows Nov 3- Jan 3, Holiday Train Show, Atlanta, GA Atlanta Botanical Garden, 404-876-5859 Nov 20-Dec 30,Fantasy in Lights, Pine Mounain, GA Callaway Gardens, 706-663-2281 Nov 21-Jan 10, Holiday Train Show, Bronx, NY NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700 Nov 2...

Books: Low Maintenance Gardening
on Nov 18, 2009 in garden books garden design gardening Valerie Easton In my years as a landscape designer, I’ve only had a couple of clients who were interested in high-maintenance gardens, and they’re just alike: They love to spend time working outdoors in the garden, favor unusual and hard-to-find plants, and are...

In the Magazines Nov-Dec 09
on Nov 15, 2009Garden Design Nov Dec 09 Climatic Challenge in Patagonia, AZ by designer Margaret Joplin. A Private Tropical Garden on Kauai by designer Andrea Lecusay. New England: Lengthening the short garden season with winter plantings. Conifers for year-round i...

Michael Pollan's Edible Front Yard
on Nov 13, 2009 in Vegetable Gardens edible gardens garden design Michael Pollan sustainable gardens You'd expect nothing less in the garden of Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ; and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Pollan and his wife hi...

New Botanical Garden: Naples, FL
on Nov 11, 2009 in Announcements Gardens to Visit garden design Naples Botanical Garden tropical plants The first significant tropical botanical garden in the United States opens this weekend in Naples, Florida, designed by some of the country's leading landscape architects. Brian Holley, executive director of the new Naples Botanical Garden described...

Books: Meadow Gardens
on Nov 8, 2009 in Books garden books garden design lawns meadows There's a big move afoot among many gardeners to get rid of lawns, and here's the book that will tell you just how to do that. In his new book, The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn (Timber Press, 2009), n...

Home Gardens Going Green
on Nov 6, 2009 in Environment American Society of Landscape Architects garden design Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center sustainable gardens Sustainable Sites Initiative US Botanic Garden Just think ... how nice it would be to have an entire suburban street with landscapes like this one ... entire streets without lawns! It's just one of the new ideas that could become a reality ... thanks to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI), a c...

Cornell's Trees
on Nov 4, 2009 in Environment climate change cornell university trees The campus of Cornell University has more than 7000 trees, and they're storing millions of pounds of carbon, worth more than half a million dollars to the university. A comprehensive tree inventory was recently conducted by two graduate students, as...

Chinese Garden - Portland
on Nov 1, 2009 in Gardens to Visit garden design Portland classical chinese garden portland OR The Classical Chinese Garden in Portland, OR, is a 21st-century ancient garden. It opened in September, 2000, and it's destined to be (if not already) one of the most popular garden destinations in the country. Built on the site of an old parking lot...

Halloween Rose
on Oct 30, 2009 in Plants garden design plants roses Weeks Roses Pumpkin Patch™ Rose Could there be any rose as perfect for Halloween? This is a new one from Weeks Roses, described as the color of pumpkin pie, on the caramel side. It's a floribunda, medium-sized, round and bushy, with a moderately fruity fragran...