I love finding new public outdoor spaces, especially when they’re almost in my back yard.  A few weeks ago I went out for a run and instead of taking my usual route, I took the Boston Harborwalk over to the (relatively) new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.  This location in Ch

I read an article this morning about The Ruth Bancroft Garden in California.  I was fortunate to visit there a few years ago with the APLD Annual Conference.  It is an a amazing, arid garden, featuring the most stunning cacti, agave, and other succulents.  Given the very dry, hot weat

Choosing a front-yard fence should be a calculated decision — a fence changes the way your home is seen, affects the layout of the landscaping and lasts, typically, the life of your home. And with the hundreds of fencing options out there, it’s no small hurdle to find a fence that fit

Mother’s Day weekend this year I went to Connecticut with the intention of going on the Open Days Garden Tour in Litchfield County with my mom.  After driving for 2 hours, though, another hour and a half in the car wasn’t too appealing.  Instead, after a little bit of rese

It’s taken me some time to get back to the blog and write this post. Mostly because my new website launched last week and my old blog content was moved over to this new platform, I hope you like it! When I last wrote, it was about my recent trip to New York City and my visit to

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An Interview with Andrea Nilsen of Nilsen Landscape Design Tell us a little bit about your company and its foundation. Nilsen Landscape Design is a small design firm based in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. I founded the company in 2010 after earning a Certificate of Landscape

An Interview with Andrea Nilsen of Nilsen Landscape Design Tell us a little bit about your company and its foundation. Nilsen Landscape Design is a small design firm based in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. I founded the company in 2010 after earning a Certificate of Landscape

I spent last weekend in NYC, and though there is so much to see and do there, I only had a few items on my agenda.  The High Line  which I had walked a few times before (in both summer and fall), Bryant Park (which I’d never been to), and a really great dinner out

Every fall I walk through my small garden and gather seeds from my region’s native perennials. I have a little paper lunch bag for each plant (nearly 100), labeled and dated, that I store the seeds in. Sometimes I take a mix of six to 10 carefully selected plants, put them in one bag,