Garden Design
Every summer thunderstorm used to leave a brown puddle in the low corner behind my packing shed. Scout, the bigger of my two rescue dogs, treated it like a day spa. I treated it like a problem. One wet July afternoon I followed the water. It poured off the shed
Nobody builds a garden fence for fun. You build one because something has been eating your lettuce, or your dog keeps flattening the tomato bed, or the deer in your neighborhood have decided your yard is their personal salad bar.
I still remember my first cut flower garden. It was a small patch behind my farmhouse. Within a few months, I had fresh bouquets sitting on my kitchen table every week. That is the real joy of growing a cut
I built my first gravel seating area around a client’s fire pit on a shoestring budget, and we almost made the mistake that ruins these projects: shoveling leftover pea gravel straight into the pit itself. That one habit is where
