I design & build gardens and this blog is about all things landscape and garden that can influence garden making. My bias is toward the clean, straight forward, and spare but I can be seduced as much as anyone by the sensuality of nature. However, what I post will be about more than the pretty, precious, and nostalgic. We'll see how well I do. And "Carex"? It's a sedge frequently used in planting native gardens. I like it very much.
If you’ve been wondering how Piet Oudolf, Dutch planting designer of the High Line and Millennium Park (among many other projects) works out his plantings, here’s a glimpse into the process: a planting plan in rough draft.