by Ilona Erwin | Garden Style, Landscape Design Know-How
Garden Expert About Piet Oudolf “The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.” New American Garden Style The Big Picture I like to connect people with the processes of their own lives. What it takes humans a lifetime to experience, a...
by Ilona Erwin | Featured Articles, interesting facts, Landscape Design Know-How
Garden Expert About Vita Sackville-West the strictest formality of design, with the maximum informality in planting English Garden Style English Garden Maven -Rooms and White Gardens If you grow a ‘White Garden, ‘Moon Garden’, or plan on it, you have...
by Ilona Erwin | Featured Articles, garden tales, Landscape Design Know-How
Formidable in her time, Gertrude Jekyll has had an immense impact on modern gardening. Her name is still venerated even when her writings and what remains of her garden designs might be unknown to most gardeners. Of the many gardens she designed, some sources report...
by Ilona Erwin | Featured Articles, Garden Style, Landscape Design Know-How
“I have always tried to shape gardens each as a harmony linking people to nature, house to landscape, the plant to its soil. Everything that distracts from the idea of a unity must go.â€Russell Page, The Education of a Gardener, 1962 One of the pre-eminent...