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sustainable urban landscape design

Don't Wait to Buy Good Gardening Tools

Don’t Wait to Buy the Best Gardening Tools

Ok, I’ll be honest with you. For years I (a one-time municipal hort tech) took a really long time to buy good tools. I was…

copse

A New Twist (on the Ancient Copse) : Multipurpose Landscape Design

Picture in your mind, your ideal woodland landscape. Perhaps there are loose grasses and wildflowers that slowly morph into small, multi-stemmed trees. Open canopies, allowing…

delos at sissinghurst

Garden Disturbance: How to Think Like a Goat & Build Resilience

I watched a seminar given by Dan Pearson earlier today. Detailing the renewal and redesign of the Delos garden at Sissinghurst. And, as you can…