Sowing Seeds of Spring
by Anna Johansen As the days are starting to get longer and my canned goods…
JMMDSFebruary 9, 2010
A Glossary of Garden Houses
by Julie Moir MesservyAfter spring arrives and the cabin fever passes, you'll long for a…
Exposing the Amaryllis
by Val Khislavsky What you think of as an Amaryllis may not be one after…
JMMDSJanuary 26, 2010
Garden Conversations in the Digital Age
by Julie Moir MesservyWe revisit some of our readers' emails, letters, and photographs of the…
JMMDSJanuary 19, 2010
Powerful Places: The Baja Peninsula, Mexico
by Anna JohansenAfter blasting through Tijuana and Ensenada, the subsequent agricultural vastness of the likes…
JMMDSJanuary 12, 2010
New Perspectives for a New Year: Seven Ways to See
by Julie Moir MesservyMy seven spatial archetypes provide a contemplative framework for looking at the…
JMMDSJanuary 5, 2010
Landscape Design 101: The Garden in Winter
by Julie Moir Messervy Ironically enough, it’s the dead of winter when making changes to…
JMMDSDecember 29, 2009
Building with Beavers: A Habitat of Home
by Julie Moir Messervy An inside look at the industrious beavers living in my own…
JMMDSDecember 22, 2009
The JMMDS Holiday Gift Guide
by Val KhislavskySnow is on the ground and the Holidays are upon us! Whether you're…
JMMDSDecember 15, 2009
Powerful Places: Machu Picchu, Peru
by Val Khislavsky Design inspiration can be found right outside your door, but it's always…
JMMDSDecember 8, 2009
NEW from JMMDS: Toronto Music Garden Book
by Val KhislavskyJMMDS announces the newest addition to its book catalog: The Toronto Music Garden:…
JMMDSDecember 1, 2009
Beautiful Brassicas: Fall Landscape Favorites
by Katharine Gehron Winter is just around the corner here in the Northeast. All the…
JMMDSNovember 24, 2009
Home Outside a Top Book of 2009 on Washington Post & Amazon.com!
by Katharine GehronWe received the exciting news that Home Outside has been named one of…
JMMDSNovember 23, 2009
Meet the Designer: Maggie Judycki, GreenThemes Inc.
by Mary Landon Maggie Judycki, the proprietor of GreenThemes, Inc., a landscape-design company based in…
JMMDSNovember 17, 2009
Landscape Design 101: Pools of Space
by Julie Moir Messervy Unify the elements of your property using a little trick from…
JMMDSNovember 10, 2009
Eye on Design: Recycled Outdoor Products
by Val Khislavsky Breezesta furniture brightens an outdoor gathering space. Photo: Breezesta. On a recent…
JMMDSNovember 3, 2009
Colors of Fall: Vermont Foliage through a Photographer’s Lens
by Val Khislavsky Fall Foliage highlights a JMMDS Vermont landscape design. Photo: Bill Sumner. Fall…
JMMDSOctober 27, 2009
Landscaping Faux Pas #4: Designing with Concrete: Think Outside the Block
by Val Khislavsky Our Landscaping Faux pas series continues with a hard look at concrete…
JMMDSOctober 20, 2009
Inspired Design: Shore Country Day School, Beverly, MA
by Julie Moir Messervy An early perspective sketch of the Inspiration Garden by JMMDS Landscape…
JMMDSOctober 13, 2009
Artists Among Us: Supporting Your Local Talent
by Julie Moir Messervy Sandstone heads by Donald Saaf. Photo: Donald Saaf website. Since I’ve…
JMMDSOctober 6, 2009
Fairy Houses Tour Comes to Grafton Nature Museum
by Val Khislavsky This past weekend marked Vermont's first Fairy Houses Tour at the Nature…
JMMDSSeptember 29, 2009
Erica’s Oddballs: The Alliums
by Erica Bowman Here's the latest from the Erica's Oddballs series! With each post, Erica…
JMMDSSeptember 25, 2009
A New Community Garden Campus: Celebrating at Franklin Park Conservatory
by Julie Moir Messervy One of the Culinary Gardens. Photo: Julie Messervy. I just got…
JMMDSSeptember 15, 2009
Meet a Designer: Alma Hecht, San Francisco, CA
by Mary Landon We first got to know Alma Hecht, APLD, from our Call for…
JMMDSSeptember 8, 2009
Walking the Rose Kennedy Greenway: Landscape Design in the Heart of the City
by Julie Moir Messervy Plantings soften the cityscape in Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway. Photos: Julie…
JMMDSSeptember 1, 2009
Erica’s Oddballs: Nature’s Treasures
by Erica Bowman Here's the latest from the Erica's Oddballs series! With each post, Erica…
JMMDSAugust 25, 2009
Creating Home Outside: A Success!
Julie gives feedback on the tabletop exercise. Photo: Val Khislavsky. Thank you to everyone who…
JMMDSAugust 25, 2009
Join Julie for a Vermont Landscape Design Workshop!
THIS Saturday, August 22, 2009 9:30am – 4:30pm Vermont Academy Saxtons River, VT Click to…
JMMDSAugust 18, 2009
Summer Hours: A Landscape Designer’s Dream
by Julie Moir Messervy Julie's pond in the morning light. Photo: Julie Messervy For the…
JMMDSAugust 18, 2009
Landscaping Faux Pas #3: The Plastic Edge
by Julie Moir Messervy Our Landscaping Faux pas series continues with the perils of plastic…
JMMDSAugust 11, 2009