Garden Smackdown™ by Andrew Keys

A Southern Saga

September 13, 2012

On the clickthrough, it’s a story straight from the heart of the Deep South I come from…

Remember how I resolved to take August off? Not just from the blog (that would be too easy, har har), but from Facebook? Well, I did it, and it WAS amazing, and I learned to love August, because it was the best August ever. Soon after I committed to a social media-free August, the stars [...]

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Dog Days

August 8, 2012

A couple weeks ago I caught myself doing something I have never done: lamenting the fact that summer was “almost over,” while it’s only just August. That’s always struck me as a slap in the fact to the summer that’s still happening, and I’ve always hated it when people do that. This prompted a small [...]

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Garden Confidential #8: Natural History

July 12, 2012

I had never heard of herbaria until a few years ago, and when the word first floated across my desk, I didn’t much think about what one was. Then I met my friend Julie, who works at one, whom I interviewed for this podcast, and the more she told me about her work, the more [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Texture

June 26, 2012

In the world of design elements, color is king, and the rest are courtiers. This is unfortunate, because to my mind texture is a far more sophisticated prospect, and maybe the one I like to play with most. But have you ever just wanted to rip it all out and start over again? I have, [...]

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Memory and Big Sur

June 21, 2012

When I was in high school, I read an article in Garden Design about a couple in Big Sur who grew fields of lavender, and I was so captivated I by the idea of the place I knew in an instant I had to go there.

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Why Indeed?

June 7, 2012

If you know me or follow me on Facebook or Pinterest, you may have heard a bit of news last week. You may also have noticed a new item in the menu at the top of the page. If not, then let me be the first to tell you: IT’S MY BOOK! That’s right, I [...]

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Garden Designers Roundtable: My Home Garden

May 22, 2012

My garden: let me show you it. Well… Some of it.

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Garden Confidential #6: X and Y, Pt. I

May 11, 2012

People. This week has threatened to be my undoing. But I got to shop ’til I dropped yesterday at the Brimfield Fair with friends, which helped. If that weren’t enough, I discovered the lovely SoundCloud service I’ve been using to bring you these podcasts on my site isn’t free like I thought–which is convenient, since [...]

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