All the Dirt on Gardening

I've linked to Deborah Silver's blog, Dirt Simple , before and must again. Silver is a landscape designer with an online portfolio here . A recent blog entry called "A Sheetcake Garden" has photos and descriptions of a truly clean approach to landscaping - planting shrubs in masses. Silver then introduced her readers to Spanish landscape architect, Fernando Caruncho . The website is in Spanish, of course, but the photos make it worth a visit. Clean elegance. A Google search on Caruncho yields pages and pages of images. The website, Vulgare says that most of Caruncho's designs are in Spain. "Caruncho has carefully studied the history of oriental and occidental garden architecture and translates a number of archetypical elements of Moorish and Arabic gardens into contemporary designs." Hence the clean lines. Take a look at these spectacular designers' ideas as you consider your landscape over the months ahead.

The Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens spans about 100 acres and contains more than a dozen gardens, including a Japanese tea garden and multiple studio gardens for a television show, Oklahoma Gardening. 2009 additions include a Native Splendor garden and The Painter’s Pallet. Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Council provided a grant for anew sensory garden. The gardens are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with an open house on the first and third Saturdays May through October from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gardens are west of the campus - Highway 51 between Sangre Road and Western Road. For more infomation - 405.744.5404 ------------ Mountain Valley Growers sale is extended. Here's the link . Everything is organic. The ordering has a minimum of 6 or $19.50 ---------------- Garden Rant has an excellent post on what you need and do not need to make healthy compost. ------------------ Deborah Silver's Landscape design blog, Dirt Simple , covers espalier trees ...