I’m loving being in the Bay area this week at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show–it’s my second time to the show, and it’s such an exciting week seeing the display gardens and getting caught up with friends! On the Tuesday before the show begins, our wonderful friend, Rebecca Sweet, opens up her gorgeous [...]
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For those of you who are used to visiting my site on Thursdays to pick up the “Garden Project of the Week,” I have good and bad news for you! The good news is that it’s Thursday and there are 5 more days in the “Garden Up!” Cyber Book Party, so that means 5 more [...]
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Hey, I’m all about a party–you give me a reason and I’m there! And I’m so excited, because today is one of the biggest reasons to party and celebrate this spring–my super-talented landscape designer and writer friends, Rebecca Sweet and Susan Morrison, have written a fantastic book that is in bookstores starting today! “Garden Up! [...]
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I’ve been so excited to write this post! I started creating my balcony garden (as it is) during the spring of 2010, and finished it up right at the beginning of summer. I had a lot of help–Katharine Tretter helped me with space planning and her husband, Kevin, built my free-standing wall fountain. My awesome [...]
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I run across a LOT of garden blog posts that I love–mostly because I’m an avid reader but also because I have met a number of very talented gardeners/landscape designers this past year who share some superb ideas on plants, design and projects. This is a potpourri of garden writing–some posts advise, others teach, and [...]
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For those of you who are regular readers of J. Peterson Garden Design, you’ll remember that I am a part of an illustrious and (in)famous group of garden designers around the United States (and actually the UK). This group bands together and produces monthly blog posts on a particular aspect of garden design. Although I [...]
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Good Morning, readers! This morning I woke up in the lovely home of Rebecca Sweet (Harmony in the Garden), who is hosting me while we attend the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show this week! I flew in Tuesday morning and began tweeting about it all while Rebecca’s husband Tom tried out his pomegranite cosmos [...]
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Every now and then I run across something that is really powerful in its simplicity and honesty, and that happened today. I followed a link to fellow garden designer Rebecca Sweet’s blog, Gossip in the Garden, where I found a video made by another garden designer, Susan Morrison. Susan had just finished a film class [...]
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