Good to Grow: Vinca plays a major and minor role in garden design | Life & Arts

Greg Stevens

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Tree Talk: Kyoto to Seattle, old Edo to today

Greg Stevens

Tucked into the hills, west of Kyoto, Katsura Rikyu is the oldest current example of the Japanese Stroll Back garden. Done sometime in the mid-1600s, this backyard garden surrounds an imperial villa. Tucked into the hills, west of Madison Park, in the Washington Park Arboretum, is the Seattle Japanese Garden, […]

Get It Growing: Herbs with flavor and style

Greg Stevens

What’s not to appreciate about herbs? Culinary herbs time our foodstuff and are delightful crops to exhibit in our landscape or backyard. You can tuck them in with perennials or develop them in containers. Herbs are flexible, deer-resistant, and typically drought tolerant vegetation well suited to Sequim’s local climate. Herbs […]

Wayfair’s first store, lumber prices plunge and more

Greg Stevens

Extraordinary, ephemeral and just out of reach, this season’s Broadway sets are an attraction of their have for some theatergoers—now, designers at the rear of many current onstage environments are sharing how they introduced every area to existence. Whatever will come following, stay in the know with our weekly roundup […]

The Remote Gardens and Pavilions of Versailles

Greg Stevens

Set far back again in the grounds of Versailles are the refined gardens and pavilions of the Petit Trianon. With each other, they display how European yard design transitioned in the 1700s with two contrasting types: On the west aspect, there is a quiet but uplifting official French backyard garden, […]