Getting rid of the lawn

August 15, 2021

What can you do if you get rid of the lawn? See one example in my article published in Pacific Horticulture:

“Organized Chaos — Food, Roses, and a Jungle Retreat”

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So many radii to get just the right layout! ⁣
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Do you remember this design? My friends @maidenhair_landscapes are installing it now and I wanted to help them understand the hidden workings of all those curves. Taking the design from paper to ground involves stakes, string, tape measures, paint, and hopefully not too much head scratching. ⁣
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Good luck out there today @maidenhair_landscapes ladies! You’ll make it beautiful!⁣
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#magicalmiddlegarden #layout #circles #radii #landscapedesign #gardendesign #landscapelayout #funwithgeometry #collaboration #habitatgarden #pnwgarden #morpholiotrace @morpholio #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ Sometimes I miss the back side view of my old

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Sometimes I miss the back side view of my old paper designs, copic markers bleeding through, as if the paper were left in the rain, washed with color.⁣
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Turning off all the layers except color in morpholio trace satisfies this nostalgia. No lines, only color and shadow.⁣
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#smallwithitallgarden⁣
⁣#coloronly #morpholiotrace @morpholio #ipadart #landscapedesign #habitatgarden #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ “I don’t know all the names, but those flo

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“I don’t know all the names, but those flowers that kept blooming all fall have been just covered in little birds eating their seeds!”⁣
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That’s what I LOVE to hear! Welcoming a little ‘mess’ of standing stalks through the winter is for the birds. And, the bird lovers!⁣
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#openairlivingroomgarden #rudbeckiafulgidafulgida #blackeyedsusan #birdgarden #leavethestalks #habitatgarden #pollinatorgarden #outdoorliving #libertiaperegrinans #seneciogreyi #brachyglottisgreyi #arbutusunedo #wintergarden #pnwgarden #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty

⁣ I love that Kathy and Elliott were familiar wi

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I love that Kathy and Elliott were familiar with most of the native plants I included in their design. Ocean spray and red flowering currant are old friends of theirs. Yerba buena, too, making Kathy smile and call out it’s minty scent when she saw it pictured on the collage. ⁣And, Elliott will have fun seeing the lupine in bloom. I included our native big leaf lupine in the front garden and the compact Gallery Blue lupine in back. The front becomes more naturalized while the back is the puttering ground for hands-on gardening.
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Coming from a forested, rural home to this urban lot, they wanted a little bit of everything they were used to, but now, organized into a much smaller space—all the functionality for outdoor living, dressed in layers of native and climate adapted plants. More life, more privacy, more beauty. ⁣
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This is the Small with it All Garden. What do you think? Could you live here?⁣
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#smallwithitallgarden⁣ #landscapedsign #gardendesign #plantingdesign #outdoorliving #habitatgarden made in #morpholiotrace @morpholio #pnwgarden #flagstonepaths #boulderfountain #oregonnativeplants #climateadaptedplants #droughttolerantlandscape #openyourdoors to #naturesbeauty
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⁣ What does it mean to be radical? ⁣ ⁣ It’

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What does it mean to be radical? ⁣
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It’s to be rooted in place, to make transformative change, to challenge the status quo, to come from deep understandings.⁣
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Read the new blog: Follow the Rain - Radical Attention to Place to explore local inspiration for your garden dreams this year. ⁣
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Let January be the month to rekindle a rooted sense of the sacredness of place. ⁣
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Link in bio.⁣
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Thank you @eugparks for caring for the places that nurture and educate us!⁣
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If you want to read more, sign up! You’ll get the landscape alternatives e-book, these monthly blog posts, and any articles I publish elsewhere. ⁣
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To care for the balance, allowing your values to i

To care for the balance, allowing your values to include the right to self care, read Nature Therapy From the Contemplative Garden. This is my latest contribution to Pacific Horticulture. In it you'll learn three keys to design that foster opportunities to take in the healing complexities of nature.

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Deep beds at the entrance to the Contemplative Garden allow for layers of shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and groundcovers to lap at the edges of the path. Credit: Leslie Davis
#gardening #gardendesign #health #lifenotlawn #gardenformentalhealth
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