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Lily of the Valley is one of those ground covers you may not always think to use.  Yet it is one of the easiest to grow, can spread like crazy and needs hardly any care.  I know, you’re probably thinking “Why am I not using more of this plant?”. In case you’re not familiar with [...]

Plant Information Is Step One I can remember taking plant identification courses in school and being overwhelmed by how different each plant is.  Setting aside their cultural differences, like what type of soil and exposure they prefer, let’s just think about the differences in terms of shape and size. How we design and arrange plantings [...]

Forsythia has to be one of the most well known plants.  Heck, I’ll bet it’s right up there with Christmas trees and roses. Forsythia actually makes me think of childhood.   Probably because it was what we saw when the weather first started to get warm and we could play more outside. Although Forsythia is not [...]

It’s sometimes difficult to describe a design concept in writing.  I recently talked about why you should use plant groupings in your designs and felt this pool setting gave a nice example of this concept. There is so much to gain by understanding and using plant groupings (or “plant massings” as they are sometimes called).