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Sunday, April 26, 2009

How to Design a Thicket

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Thickets are mysterious: dense, dark & impenetrable. They harbor wildlife, heard yet unseen. They are low-maintenance, best left un...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

How to Design a Mixed Border

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Mixed borders (or mixed planting beds) are those that combine shrubs & perennials. They have outpaced perennial beds to become the mo...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

How to Design a Privacy Screen

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A privacy screen is used when you don't want to see what is beyond your property line, which might be the street, or the sidewalk, or ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

How to Design a Bosque

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A bosque is a grove of trees. Some mimic the forest, while others are more formal. Trees are spaced regularly, or more randomly. Bosq...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

West Coast Perennial Garden (Cascadia Garden)

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Iris tenax May 2009 Iris macrosiphon May 2009     Erythronium oregonum March 2010 Lithocarpus densiflorus echinoid...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Privacy Screen (Cascadia Garden)

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Hebe ochracea in front of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Blue Surprise’ May 2009 Aster in front of Juniperus chinensis ‘Blue Point ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Bosque (Cascadia Garden)

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  Chamaecyparis lawsoniana December 2008 Sorbus gonggashanica September 2008 Rhododendron 'Cynthia' May 2009 ...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Mixed Border (Cascadia Garden)

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  Agapanthus africanus August 2008 Acanthus hungaricus June 2009 Ceanothus thyrsiflorus June 2009 Kniphofia thompso...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Cupressaceae: The Cypress Family

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Cupressus sempervirens illustration by Maxfield Parrish 1903 Chamaecyparis pisifera August 2008 Juniperus chinensis Decemb...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ericaceae: The Heath Family

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Erica australis February 2009   Erica manipuliflora September 2009 Arctostaphylos columbiana April 2009 Rhododen...