Garden Design

The Top 10 Overused Landscape Plants

by Risa Edelstein on September 24, 2010

in Garden Design,Rants & Raves

Be honest and go into your yard with this checklist.  If you have most of these plants, it’s time to shake it up a little and add a bit of pizazz to your garden.  These are the top 10 overused plants in New England or at least that is my assessment without any formal surveying [...]

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The Blue Stick Garden by Claude Cormier

by Risa Edelstein on April 26, 2010

in Garden Design

I am huge fan of landscape art and I absolutely love this garden installation by Claude Cormier, who did it in 2006 for the International Garden Festival in Montreal (my home town!).  I appreciate the repeating quality of the wooden fence poles and apparently depending on where you stood, you would see blue or red.  [...]

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Can You Translate Yarn into a Garden?

by Risa Edelstein on March 15, 2010

in Garden Design

   I love the notion that inspiration for gardens can come from anywhere….hence this photo of a ball of wool.  This is what I came up with. What do you think? Share

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