OK, so lots of songs unrelated to gardening remind me of gardening, but the refrain of this song particularly reminds me of gardening. “I wanted to control it, but love, I couldn’t hold it” — how often have you said that about YOUR garden? I know I have. Seu browser não suporta iframes. Download this [...]

If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re at least a little familiar with the traditional concept of the focal point, as in the photo at left*. Yes? So I’m not going to talk about the principles behind the traditional focal point today. I’m feeling like thinking outside the box. Here are my outside-the-box thoughts. *All [...]

Spring has sprung, and I’m a busy guy this week, so I hope you’ll forgive me for recycling this old post from my short-lived Oakleaf Green Landscape Design blog on my business’ web site. (I use that space for news of the business now and, well, I blog here.) I have to say, I’ve met [...]

Earth Day is this week! Here’s a little ditty to remind you how we all share this land. Seu browser não suporta iframes. Buy this album on Amazon* → *Amazon Associates link.

Today, I’m celebrating Arbor Day with tree-related ceremonies at two schools in town. A passage for our friends the trees seemed apropos. Puszcza, an old Polish word, means ‘forest primeval.’ Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Białowieża Puszcza contain Europe’s last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. Think of [...]

Trust me, you know Asteraceae. Whether you know asters themselves or some Aster relative, you’d have to live under a rock not to know at least one plant from the aster family. Asteraceae is the second largest family of plants, second only to the orchid family, Orchidaceae. When last smart people counted, there were around [...]

I have decided this particular Monday shall rock, and this has been my song for rockin’ for a few months now. It just doesn’t get old. Rock with me, Monday. Seu browser não suporta iframes. Order this album on Amazon* → *Amazon Associates link. If you buy, you support the artist, and you support me [...]

When I was in the first grade, whenever I stood outside waiting to be picked up from school, I watched a rice paper plant at a house across the street grow. At first, in spring, it was barely there, but by summer it was something big. I wasn’t sure I liked it, but it wasn’t [...]

My affair with Pennisetum alopecuroides cultivars ended almost before it began, and for that you can thank Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose,’ in my opinion a more exciting plant in so many ways, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I haven’t yet discerned whether ‘Foxtrot’ (or ‘Fox Trot’) is purely an alopecuroides cultivar or a cross [...]

Here’s a favorite song from a favorite album by weird, wonderful Juana Molina, an Argentinian artist who’s bound to make you sit up and listen. In a word: parrots. Seu browser não suporta iframes. Pre-order the album on Amazon* → *Amazon Associates link. If you buy, you support the artist, and you support me too!