simpleleafdesign.com date time-to-read.short-label Blok Planting Garden Design: A Naturalistic Nursery Dream Preface: Here at Simple Leaf, Alicia and I have been treating this very unusual year as a time to reach out online and meet other like-mi...
simpleleafdesign.com date time-to-read.short-label The Beauty of Fall in a Naturalistic Garden For a while now we've been practicing maintenance that's in keeping with a naturalistic garden style. We do a lot less work and we make s...
simpleleafdesign.com date time-to-read.short-label 3 Principles of Garden Design I Learned as a Kid Growing up in the Hillside neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, my windows framed Mt. Hood, but my gaze more often went to my dresser tops.T...
simpleleafdesign.com date time-to-read.short-label Bringing Structure into the Garden with Architectural Plants Structure in the garden is huge, it provides visual balance and depth, creates boundaries and helps to contain and show off free spirited pl
simpleleafdesign.com date time-to-read.short-label Deadheading for Pollinators: Prolonging the Bloom We planted a series of garden beds a few years ago specifically for pollinators. Part of what we wanted to experiment with (beyond plant ...
