Garden Design for the South
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Garden design services for Atlanta-area gardeners. Planning, design, plant selection and maintenance advice.
One-on-one coaching for anyone new to gardening in the South.
Mentoring for landscape professionals interested in learning seasonal color design.
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
Minnie Aumonier
Color-Rich Gardening for the South
Roxann Ward’s book is now available on the University of North Carolina Press website. You’ll find the order link under the Book tab.
Latest Design Ideas
- A Color Checklist for FallIf you live in the South, now is the perfect time to get pansies and violas planted so they’ll have plenty of time to settle in before the frosty mornings begin. Pansies and violas thrive in cool temperatures, so once you see the 80s disappear from your weather forecast it’sContinue reading “A Color Checklist for Fall”
- Fall for AnemonesThere is nothing I love more than helping fellow plant lovers discover something new, and my top recommendation for this month is the fall-blooming anemone, Eriocapitella japonica. Elegant, charming, and easy to grow, anemones are often overlooked because they bloom at the end of summer, but this is the veryContinue reading “Fall for Anemones”
- The Resilient GardenThe weather is on my mind a lot these days. It seems that when I was new to gardening many years ago, you could count on rainfall during the cooler seasons of spring and fall, with dry spells sprinkled through the summer months. While there were certainly storms and droughts,Continue reading “The Resilient Garden”