Donald Pell
For more than three decades, Donald Pell has been reshaping gardens throughout the Mid-Atlantic. An award-winning designer, horticulturist, and lecturer, he has gained prominence by inspiring clients to abandon the ordinary for adventurous, visually immersive landscapes. A plantsman to the core, Don uses an extensive palette of native and ornamental, woody and herbaceous plants to give a site beauty and to ensure its longterm success. His landscape firm has won several prestigious awards, including the Perennial Plant Association Honor Award for Landscape Design and the Gold Award for Planting Design from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
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DesignBoost Your Garden’s Brilliance with These Spectacular Plant Pairings
Many plants that deliver high visual impact are rambunctious. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are aggressive, but when planted in masses (or sometimes singly) they can get out of…
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DesignDesigning for Impact Over the Long Haul: Planting Plan
Author Donald Pell’s career in horticulture started when he was 19 and eventually evolved into a landscape design practice that is located on a 14-acre farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania.…
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Design3 Strategies for Designing a Garden That Will Make an Impact for Years
Years ago I remember telling a landscape architect friend that I wanted to put together a talk about everything I’ve done wrong (in gardening rather than my personal life—that saga…
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