Garden Design | Loving Nature's Garden

How to potter about in your garden

Pot-ter (verb): to do things in a slow and enjoyable way (MacMillan Dictionary).

Have you pottered about in your garden recently? It seems to me that pottering about is a neglected, maybe even a dying, art.

What is pottering about?

Online dictionaries describe pottering about with a variety of terms, many of them derogatory. Some say it’s the [...]

There’s a little corner of my front yard, right by the driveway, which needs some help.

I’ve issued myself a butterfly garden challenge. You too can do a butterfly garden in a weekend.

Plan your garden

I’m sure every garden has a place for at least a few butterfly plants. Whether there’s a non-native plant you’d like to [...]

Back Yard West Garden Corner 03-29-10

Dear Reader,

If your garden plans don’t always turn out the way you expected don’t give up. Call it a challenge! Here’s mine…

The year 2010 is gone and it’s time for me to ‘fess up about the good, the bad, and the ugly of my gardening efforts over the last [...]

Hike Kansas by earlycj5

“The prairie is absorbing, captivating, even overpowering.” – Alison Kerr, 2010

Natural landscapes are captivating in a way most gardens are not.

What can we learn from the Kansas prairie which we can apply to the design of our nature gardens? Wouldn’t we all like a garden which is captivating?

How a natural landscape [...]

Spanish Courtyard Garden, Rachel Mathews, 2010

I don’t know what others use for do-it-yourself garden design, but I recommend working with Rachel Mathews, because that is what worked for me.

Lesson Learned

After my failure with hiring a home landscape designer I was more than happy to find a way to get the help I needed to [...]