September 8, 2016

6 Key Principles for Drought Tolerant Landscape Design

An underappreciated yet highly valuable benefit of a natural landscape is resilience to weather extremes, including drought. A thoughtful, established natural landscape is the next best thing to xeriscaping when […]
April 27, 2016

2 Key Strategies in the War with Weeds

In this post I want to focus on just two key interrelated high-level strategies in the war with weeds in the context of natural landscaping:1 – where to first focus […]
March 15, 2016

Pruning and the Art of Landscape Design

This is the time of year when my landscape efforts focus on pruning.  This year we’ve had a chance to get out on the early side and I’ve already done […]