a garden maker's notes

Yellow perennial Digitalis grandiflora and red Dianthus ‘Frosty Fire”? highlight the foliage of Hemerocallis and Enkianthus

White Iris  siberica, blue and yellow Hosta ‘Francis Williams’, yellow Hosta ‘Sum and Subtance’, pink Agilegia

Designed as a journey of garden moments–sometimes at first all I see are the weeds and the plants that need dead heading. Then the magic takes [...]

Purple Iris germanica with pink Dianthus, pink Rhododendren, blue Nepata, chartreuse Alchemilla in the front side garden

Clematis montana ‘Grandiflora’ Adds to Deck View

Today’s  images were taken from the north west and north east garden areas.  I couldn’t get them in the order I wanted so imagine being enchanted by the flowering clematis montana ‘grandiflora’ as seen from [...]

Muscari, dwarf iris, and dianthus budded foliage

Found myself in waking consciousness muttering the words” enable beauty” one morning this week. The dream fragments that I woke with escape me now but do remember the words–a mantra of sorts. The mantra of one who gardens and designs landscapes professionally, I’m continually challenged to create gardens that delight, restore,and simultaneously [...]