We were on holiday in the UK this very month last year visiting friends. There wasn’t much time to research points of interest before leaving, in typical fashion, we planned to travel only weeks before departing. However, I’d been there before and quickly formed a must-do list. Visiting gardens was on the top. Sissinghurst Castle, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden design’
April 10, 2011 by Emily Murphy · 1 Comment
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Ideas, Plans, Planting, Profiles
Social Tagging: Everything British • garden design • Gardens to Visit in the UK • Gertrude Jekyll Planting Philosophy • Harold Nicolson • Kent • Virginia Woolf • Vita Sackville-West • William Robinson
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Ideas, Plans, Planting, Profiles
Social Tagging: Everything British • garden design • Gardens to Visit in the UK • Gertrude Jekyll Planting Philosophy • Harold Nicolson • Kent • Virginia Woolf • Vita Sackville-West • William Robinson
December 8, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DESIGN, Gardens, Habitat
Social Tagging: Designing a Garden • Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer • garden design • Garden Map • John Brookes • Observation • Site Analysis • Site Evaluation • Take Cues From Nature • The Secret Ingredient to a Good Garden • Washington State Fish and Game: Design for Wildlife • Weeds and What They Tell
Filed under: DESIGN, Gardens, Habitat
Social Tagging: Designing a Garden • Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer • garden design • Garden Map • John Brookes • Observation • Site Analysis • Site Evaluation • Take Cues From Nature • The Secret Ingredient to a Good Garden • Washington State Fish and Game: Design for Wildlife • Weeds and What They Tell
Designing a garden is an art. The landscape, with all of it’s endless possibilities, your palette. However, unlike many other forms of art, it doesn’t begin with a blank slate, but a living system. Even if the intended garden is a potted garden, it still involves a multitude of environmental factors. Garden design is also [...]
November 21, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Perspective
Social Tagging: Environmental Landscaping • garden design • Gardening Behavior and Development • Gardening Psychology • Importance of Garden Design • Landscape Sustainability • Planning • Psychological Stages of Gardening • Site Evaluation • Sustainability • The Whole Experience • University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Study
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Perspective
Social Tagging: Environmental Landscaping • garden design • Gardening Behavior and Development • Gardening Psychology • Importance of Garden Design • Landscape Sustainability • Planning • Psychological Stages of Gardening • Site Evaluation • Sustainability • The Whole Experience • University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Study
Ever found yourself driving home from the nursery with a car full of plants, every shape, size and color? You’ve squeezed them in, some one on top of the other. I’ve done this at least twice, both times in spring. The early blooming flowers always catch my eye and lure me in. And then there [...]
October 14, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Educate, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Grow, Inspired, Perspective, Tips
Social Tagging: Garden • garden design • gardening resource • Grow • grow a garden • ideas • importance of gardening • insatiable • inspiration • inspiring gardeners • learning • love • plants • play • process • publication • read • resource • take it to heart • tend a garden
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Educate, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Grow, Inspired, Perspective, Tips
Social Tagging: Garden • garden design • gardening resource • Grow • grow a garden • ideas • importance of gardening • insatiable • inspiration • inspiring gardeners • learning • love • plants • play • process • publication • read • resource • take it to heart • tend a garden
“Shit or get off the pot.” This is a phrase my mother commanded on a regular basis while I was growing up and continues to utter to this day. She has never needed to shout, these five words are enough. Especially for someone like me with a good, Catholic upbringing. (Guilt, duty, respect. They all [...]