This month on Garden Designers Roundtable, we explore the topic of Gardening with Deer. Rather than discuss deer-resistant plants, types of fencing or books that deal with the subject, all worthwhile topics, I thought I’d look at design strategies you can use — regardless of where you garden — to help make your garden less [...]
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Garden Designers Roundtable ~ Gardening with Deer
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, GDRT, tagged design strategies for deer-resistane. maintenance for deer-resistant garden, designing a deer-resistant garden, Garden Designers Roundtable on December 12, 2011 | 27 Comments »
Garden Designers Roundtable: Idols
Posted in Book Previews, Gardening Inspiration, GDRT, tagged Carolyn Summers, Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, garden design inspiration, Garden Designers Roundtable, indigenous plants, Thomas Rainer on November 22, 2011 | 19 Comments »
This month on Garden Designers Roundtable, we explore the topic of Idols, those people we look to for inspiration when we’re designing gardens for our clients. As I was thinking about who to profile, I started thinking about different aspects of inspiration. Perhaps I should profile a person whose book I turn to for inspiration and guidance [...]
Garden Designer’s Roundtable: Shades of Inspiration
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, GDRT, tagged Garden Designers Roundtable, inspiration for shady gardens, shade loving plants on June 27, 2011 | 35 Comments »
This month on the Garden Designer’s Roundtable we explore the topic of Shade. Our guest is none other than Margaret Roach, author of several best-selling books and the gardening blog, A Way to Garden. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to get a private tour of Margaret’s garden last year with several Roundtablers and other [...]
Garden Designers Roundtable: Stone
Posted in GDRT, tagged Garden Designers Roundtable, indigenous stone, native stone, New England potato, using stone in landscapes on May 23, 2011 | 26 Comments »
It happened again! Each time I write a Garden Designers Roundtable post, the topic initially seems so straightforward and simple but I soon discover it is anything but. This month, I join my fellow Roundtablers in exploring the seemingly simple topic of stone and how it relates to the landscape. Stone Walls and New England [...]
Garden Designer’s Roundtable – A Flower Arranger’s Garden
Posted in GDRT, tagged flower arranger's garden, Garden Designers Roundtable on January 25, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Dear reader, If you are stumbling upon this post without first having visited the Garden Designers Roundtable blog , I encourage you to start there and read the back story behind this month’s GDRT topic. Thanks. Since Amy, our homeowner, used to have a career as a floral designer, I decided to ‘design’ a garden [...]





