My New Garden
One of the things I’ve been working on and playing around with is my new virtual garden. We picked up the property a year or so ago and it was quite a mess with weeds everywhere, some really funky (bad) designs and tons of unfinished construction. I think the economy wrecked the planning for it [...]
Green Garden Design
This is the start on a series about green garden design so hunker down and stay with me as I outline where my garden design is going. Last week, I asked about tillers. This week, I’m not going to go down that road. Things change in my gardening world and this week, I’ve been sensitized [...]
Ongoing Garden Design
Garden design thinking continues unabated here on the island. I’m still sketching away as the roof goes on the garage and we start getting ready to finish off the concrete floors before moving tools into place. This concept is a little more “formal” in that the lines are straight and the beds are clearly defined [...]
Garden Design at Someday
Regular readers may recall that we named our garden and home “Someday” because this was someday for us. We’ve landed, we’re enjoying life, and this is what we’ve worked for. No sense putting off till tomorrow what you can enjoy today. This picture shows the overall layout – between the garage concrete floor – the [...]
Garden Design Process
As regular readers know, the Princess and I bought a place together last year and have decided to make a garden. (As if that’s going to come as a surprise to any of my friends or readers.) The garden is going to be a lot bigger than most sane people will have but I thought [...]
Even More Les Quatre Vents Pics
OK – these are the last for now. The rest will pop up here and there. This was taken in the Japanese garden area – it’s the tea house. The waterfall beside the Japanese teahouse The wild garden walk beside the house
Les Quatre Vents
This is one of the outstanding gardens in Quebec, Canada. Normally open 4 times a year by reservation, a group of garden writers got a special invitation and we headed off to La Belle Province for a few days of serious garden touring and a full 3 hours in Les Quatre Vents. (The Four Winds) [...]
