The Red Trowel: A Journey with Piet Oudolf & Friends
I pursed my lips in quiet victory. At the ungodly hour of 5:30 a.m. on a Friday morning in April, my trowel and I glided through U.S. Customs to dig into my New Perennial opportunity of the year: a...
View ArticleWild is the Windcliff
The Pacific West Coast is where I first found my voice. It was decades ago that my 19-year old bohemian self flew out alone from Toronto on a one-way ticket to California, armed only with guitar,...
View ArticleSupernaturalistic: The New Perennial Pond Garden
At its roots, the New Perennial movement in naturalistic planting design is about making gardens in symbiosis with nature. It calls for a wilder aesthetic, attuned to ecology, and informed by...
View ArticleSpeechless: A Northern Garden Comes into its Own
Upon hearing that my New Perennial pond garden just won a 2020 Honour Award in Landscape Design, the highest such honour from the US-based Perennial Plant Association, I find myself lost for words. I...
View ArticleWildscaping: The Home Edition
Over the past few years, I've been too busy making new gardens to actually find the time to write about them. We're only now at a point where I can sit down to share something of the bigger picture....
View ArticlePiet Oudolf At Work: A Conversation
Right from its plain brown-wrap cover, the new book 'Piet Oudolf At Work' strikes a different chord in how it chooses to show and tell its story. Oudolf has always been a visual thinker and his...
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