Sense of Place
I think the universe is trying to tell me something - it seems that everywhere I turn I hear or read the words 'sense of place" / "spirit of place" /"genius loci" ! (All interchang...
The Gardenist Forum
The Gardenist Forum is like a conversational greenhouse, cultivating a growing list of questions and ideas for passionate gardeners. Expand your thinking by joining a broad range of conversations encompassing the art, science, philosophy and craftsmanship of gardening. Dig deeper with like-minded learners. Join the conversation today.
Garden Design Principles
Light bulb moments
My gardening journey has been less like a learning curve and more like a learning staircase. There's moments of plateau, and then moments of leaping ahead - of sudden and dramati...
+4
Colour ‘rules’
I am a baby gardener so please forgive the naivety. I was told at some point to choose which colours I wanted to focus on for my garden, I have been working mostly with purple, yel...
+2
Symmetry or Balanced Asymmetry?
Would be interesting to know how fellow passionate gardeners feel if we have an intrinsic bias to symmetry or asymmetry with balance when it comes to what gardens we prefer?C...
+7
Tulips: How much is enough?
Hi Michael and readers,Following, as we all do, many English and European designers and gardeners on Instagram, I've been enjoying all of their recent spring photos of tulips e...
+2
The Tricky Ground Layer - What Plants Do Well?
Hi everyone, I thought I'd start a thread on this as it was a theme running through the marvellous Landscape Conference last week. Claudia West and others challenged us to plant ...
+7