Moving perennials or shrubs once they’re in situ can be daunting for a novice gardener. But when you are starting a garden or reinventing one, it’s almost impossible…
Read more Secrets of an English Head Gardener: How to Transplant Shrubs and Perennials – GardenistaA steeply pitched lot can present a challenge for even the most seasoned garden designer. Many resort to terracing the slope to create flat ground to work within,…
Read more What to Plant on a Hill or Slope: The Experts Share Design and Gardening Tips4. Keep deadwood standing. Above: A simple habitat pile tucked away in the meadow at Chanticleer. Horticulturalist Chris Fehlhaber built the stack around a center post. As the…
Read more Circular Economy Gardening: How to Close the Loop in Your LandscapeLudden also recommends mulching when planting a shrub border. “I would put shredded bark mulch down because it keeps moisture in the soil and prevents weeds, and it…
Read more Rethinking Mulch: Why You Shouldn’t (And Don’t Have to) Use Mulch in Your GardenMy clients are often in love with gravel, or at least with the idea of gravel. But as a landscape designer, I have a love-hate relationship with the…
Read more 10 Things Your Landscape Designer Wishes You Knew About Gravel (But Is Too Polite to Tell You) – Gardenista“Necessity is the mother of invention” is a famous proverb, precisely because it’s so true. If you need proof, look no further than the origin story of Dovetail…
Read more Garden Visit: Tour Dovetail Cofounder Sara DeLuca’s Small Garden in Portland, ORHindsight is a wonderful thing: After you’ve planted, say, a tree in the wrong spot, everything becomes clearer and more crystallized—including where you should have planted it. Making…
Read more A Garden from Scratch: 8 Mistakes I Made as a Beginner GardenerToo bad soil isn’t dazzling like dahlias or sweetly fragrant like freesias, because gardeners then would be gushing over this dirty stuff instead of overlooking its importance. A…
Read more Know Your Dirt: The Right Type of Soil to Buy for Your Garden – GardenistaMany of us have destructive wildfires on our minds; so it’s smart to think carefully about your mulch choices, especially around your home and other buildings or wood…
Read more 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Mulch – GardenistaSpring is in the air, and for many gardeners, that means it’s time to start cleaning up the yard. But what if I told you that your garden…
Read more Leaf Mulch: Why You Should Leave the Leaves in Spring, TooYou’d think choosing plants was easy enough—just find the ones you like, right? And for single specimens in a pot or a monoculture of, say. roses or hydrangeas,…
Read more Garden from Scratch: How to Choose the Type of Plants You Need in Your LandscapeFebruary is a weird month—far enough away from the year-end holiday festivities for them to feel like a distant memory and yet, with the dreary days, also far…
Read more What to Prune in Late Winter: A Guide to What Plants Can Be Pruned in FebruaryIf you’re a gardener in the New York City area, you’ve likely toyed with the idea of taking a class at the New York Botanical Garden to stretch…
Read more NYBG’s Plant Studio: Online Classes for Beginner Gardeners at the New York Botanical GardenAs rain events have become more intense and more frequent, you may have noticed stormwater from the street flooding your property, rainwater from downspouts carving gulleys into your…
Read more Garden Design to Help Absorb Stormwater and Prevent Flooding
