A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 With the new landscape season now upon us, you may be thinking about doing one of those HGTV do-it-yourself landscape projects. Thanks to HGTV, Sunset Magazine, and the internet, many homeowners are inspired to add more color and interest to their landscape, but then they go outside to figure... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2004 It’s the age old question of philosophers. If a giant tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it fall, does it make a sound? Landscape designers have a similar age old question: Is a beautiful garden or landscape really beautiful without someone there to see and experience it?... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2003 If there is one thing that most flower buyers share when selecting flowers for their planters and hanging baskets, it’s uncertainty. Everyone wants those beautiful, overflowing flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets sitting on their deck or pation by mid-summer, but many garden center customers... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2005 If there’s anyplace in the country that can produce better summertime gardens than Wyobraska, I don’t know where it is. After a wet spring, a few weeks of summer sunshine and heat have brought Wyobraska gardens to the brink of their summertime glory. Shrub roses are in full bloom and most... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2004 “Good fences make good neighbors” is undoubtedly the most famous line from Frost’s poem Mending Wall. The poem speaks of the annual chore of rebuilding the rock walls that typically marked the boundaries of farmsteads in rural New England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the poem,...