mainegardener

Great video - I really loved your comment about how you can use color to throw a spotlight on an area. I hope you do a garden series and let your inner design teacher go wild.

What a great review. It has me drooling for the book and the plant combos. I follow Gardenmentors nursery cart approach, and I always do something I learned in design class - I stand back and squint my eyes. Sounds weird, but sometimes it can give you a new perspective - you can see how colors meld (or don't). What the shapes look like together.

This works particularly well when trying daring color combinations - it really helps me see my design more holistically.

Kate - Not to worry - looks like we are all plant serial killers. Also, Billy, you were very kind to cut my mispronunciation of heuchera.

It is so interesting how stereotypes can even apply to gardens. I think film and TV art directors often use the gardens (or lack thereof) you describe, to instantly convey that you are in a typical American home. It is kind of amazing that off the top of my head I can't think of any mainstream US film or TV that has a location with a fabulous garden. Hmmmm...what's with that?

I look forward to your wise and witty words (even though I live in a place with rapacious woodchucks and feet of snow).