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Giveaway: Home Outside by Julie Moir Messervy

March 15, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 76 Comments

Let’s start the week off with a giveaway, shall we? I have one copy of Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, by Julie Moir Messervy to give to a lucky reader. In Home Outside, award-winning landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy demystifies the art and practice of landscape design. By introducing an easy, tangible yet […]

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: book review, contest, Garden Design, Home Outside, Julie Moir Messervy

Hardscaping in the winter garden

February 5, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

Even covered in snow, a bench is a focal point that provides a resting place for the eye and reminds us of peaceful reflection. [Photo: sarae on Flickr.] The experts are constantly exhorting us to add winter interest to our gardens. “Emphasize structure,” is a popular refrain. “Think about hedges, arbours and other permanent landscape […]

Filed Under: Garden Design Tagged With: Garden Design, gardening for winter interest, hardscaping, structure, winter gardening

Garden Tour: Owen and Cait’s designer test garden

December 9, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

The Basics Names of gardeners: Owen and Cait Black (aka Aloe Designs Test Garden) URL: www.aloedesigns.com Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Size: Roughly 15’W x 30’L Orientation: South Zone: 8b Years gardened: Renovated from June 2006 ongoing. Heavy Petal says: Ever wonder what garden designers do in their own gardens? Do they maintain an exquisitely dramatic […]

Filed Under: Garden Tours Tagged With: Aloe Design, Garden Design, Garden Tours

Garden Tour: Andrea and Ben’s urban patio

October 9, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Today marks the launch of Rock n’ Scroll: the Heavy Petal Garden Tour (woot!). See gardens from around the world, and share your garden with the whole wide web. Here’s how. To kick off the tour, I’m sharing my own back patio with you. Enjoy! The basics Gardeners: Andrea Bellamy and Ben Garfinkel (with daughter […]

Filed Under: Garden Design, Garden Tours, My garden Tagged With: design, Garden Design, garden makeover, garden tour, patio, small space, urban

Submit your garden! Take us on a garden tour.

October 9, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 9 Comments

Everyone loves a garden tour. But we can’t personally visit all the great and deserving gardens around the world. So climb aboard the Heavy Petal tour bus, where you can tour fellow readers’ gardens rain or shine, in spring or the depths of winter. The tour is full of fun people. And you don’t have […]

Filed Under: Garden Tours Tagged With: before and after, Garden Design, garden makeover, garden tour

Rephorm design

January 5, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

Berlin-based Michael Hilgers is a busy fellow. An architect by training, he is also a skilled joiner who enjoys designing retail products. He had designed and independently produced the stackable polyethylene dialounge pair chair (above) and was touring it around at product fairs, where he discovered a dearth of outdoor design products – especially for […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Living Tagged With: garden, Garden Design, gardening, Outdoor Living, rephorm

Flora table

September 10, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Mmmmmmm… pretty. It’s Columbian designer Danilo Calvache’s Flora Table. Lo amo. Via MocoLoco.

Filed Under: Garden Design, Inspiration Tagged With: danilo calvache, flora table, Garden Design

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