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Drawing plant symbols in plan view is a great way to step into garden graphics. It starts with a circle, then you can embellish it as you wish (though...

Each year when I teach my students about drawing plant symbols there is always confusion about what I mean by on-center vs. spread, so in anticipation...

I weeded a lot this summer and that means I had a lot of thinking time. Time to think about how the type of bed edge determined how much time I spent ...

Here in the US Midwest (zones 4 & 5) our predominant native plant community is prairie (what's left of it). Rolling hills, open plains, fewer trees, f...

As gardeners we strive to learn as many plants as possible.  We learn by weeding around them, taking photos and notes, and simply working with them.  ...

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to visit Disney World for spring break.  I think I was just as excited as my kids (maybe even more).  I h...

Garden design has a vocabulary all it's own and even though many of these terms are quite common, we often confuse them.  I've tried my best to define...

Once the holidays end in December, it seems that January and February can dwell on as we yearn for spring to arrive. To add a bright light to these sh...

I've been wanting to do a proper marker rendering tutorial for awhile, but haven't carved out the time, so thought I'd share a quick sketch I did for ...

This past week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) annual conference in Orlando, Flor...

Stippling is an art technique that uses small dots to create a larger image. In this case, I'm using stippling to add extra character and spatial defi...

I'm a pen and ink artist to heart so love adding textures to the ground plane in my landscape plans. Yes, they take a little time, but add such charac...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on my favorite summer blooming alliums; Allium 'summer beauty' and Allium 'millenium'. Now I'd like to share my late-su...