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Garden Designers Roundtable · 3d ago

Our Home Gardens!

Curiosity about other people is part of the human psyche. We want to work other people out. Find out what makes them tick. So other people’s personal spaces are always intriguing. You look for signs of character, taste and, let’s be honest, the little foibles which make life interesting. But you are
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 1M ago

Garden Travel, Best Gardens!

Have you ever thumbed through a gardening magazine, and planned your travels aroundthe gardens you found within the pages? Ever Googled a favorite movie to find out where it was filmed, just so you could see the gardens in the film in person? Well, my friend, you have a problem… you’re a gardener! D
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 1M ago

A welcome to our newest members!

Garden Designers Roundtable is growing! We are happy to welcome four new members this month, but first we bid farewell to two of our longtime members. Laura Livengood Shaub of Interleafings, and Tara Dillard of Vanishing Threshold: Garden Life Home, have moved on to the next chapters of their profes
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 1M ago

Contemplative Spaces

In this multitasking era, when few places exist without Internet access and we obsessively check our email and thumb Facebook updates on our phones, we need, more than ever, a refuge from the hive mind – a place of retreat, solitude, and reflection. Nature has always offered this; mystics and other
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 2M ago

First Impressions!

Everyone likes to make a good first impression. We play up our positive attributes and control our annoying quirks in order to impress others in that crucial first three seconds of meeting.  According to an article in Psychology Today, “Our brains form first impressions by creating a composite of al
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 4M ago

Garden Designers Rountable: Reality Check / Don’t Do This…

This month on the Roundtable, we take a break from perusing seed catalogs and planning for spring planting for a garden design reality check. Our topic, Reality Check/Don’t Do This… is sure to illicit a wide range of thoughts from our group of Roundtablers.. Joining us this month is our guest, noted
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 4M ago

Yikes! Garden Design Don’ts

This month on the Garden Designers Roundtable, it’s time for a quick reality check. You don’t have to be a professional landscape designer to have literally been stopped in your tracks by some major garden design ‘Don’t’ you’ve seen somewhere in your travels. It could be across the world, across tow
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 5M ago

Gardening with Deer

Quite a few years ago at a conference for the Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association, I sat in on a talk by a local landscape architect who’s topic was “Deer-Proof plants”. Slide after slide he would tell the audience “this particular plant has shown great resistance to deer” or “deer won’t eat this b
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 6M ago

Horticulture and Design Idols!

This month on the Roundtable, we would like to introduce you, our readers, to those individuals who have inspired us and shaped our visions. We are very happy to welcome Thomas Rainer as a guest this month. Thomas writes a very thought provoking blog called Grounded Design, and we know you’ll like w
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Garden Designers Roundtable · 6M ago

Idols!

Inspiration isn’t hard to find these days when it comes to gardening, books, magazines and the explosion of garden blogs on the web, provide myriad resources for the home gardener. But whom do the pros look to? This month on Garden Designers Roundtable you’ll find out, as our designers introduce you
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