simpleleafdesign.com Dec 24, 2020 7 min Planting Design Inspiration in Trying Times This year has been a challenging one to say the least. As someone that takes inspiration from horticulture, history, art and travel I've ...
simpleleafdesign.com Nov 10, 2020 3 min 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 Oct 25, 2020 4 min 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 Sep 20, 2020 8 min 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 Aug 24, 2020 6 min 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
