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The Challenges and Rewards of Mapping the Naturalistic Garden

Design Narrative, Ecological Horticulture, Garden Design, Garden Design Elements, Garden Management, Garden Update, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, How-To Lurie Garden, Lurie Garden's Story, Piet Oudolf, Pollinators

Maps that are rich in detail help us communicate the complexity and evolution of our dynamic garden. Lurie Garden is intended to be an ever-changing, dynamic planting. The evolving relationships between plant groups and their role in the overall design requires constant monitoring as well as deep historical and horticultural knowledge unique to this place. […]

Scaling a Public Garden for an Intimate Space

Garden Design, Garden Design Elements, Guest Blog Post, How-To Lurie Garden, Landscape Architecture

Can we as designers, horticulturalists and gardeners feasibly and successfully recreate park design and modern design features in our own gardens? My visit to Lurie Garden was all about looking at ideas, features and combinations and reinterpreting them to work on a home garden scale. In 2015 the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) announced that one […]

Gardens as Art: Principles and Elements for Better Designs

DIY, Garden Design, Garden Design Elements, Speaker Series

We can analyze the composition of a garden’s design like we study a painting. This allows us to understand how a garden is put together, and from that comes the ability to make educated design decisions in our own gardens. I recently heard a well-respected garden writer comment on Dan Pearson’s naturalistic garden at Chelsea 2015, saying that “Real works […]