- Work within my means and leave a small footprint on the land.
- Avoid water, pesticides and fertilization when possible.
- Don't force wishful thinking onto a piece of ground.
- Time is one of a gardener's greatest allies.
- It is only the continuum of day-to-day work that makes a garden great.
- Plants are the basis of garden artistry. They serve as pieces of the puzzle. They are colors in a palette. They are elements of sculpture.
- The more we find out about plants, the more ways we will find to use them.
- Combining plants in a multitude to ways, based on their habits and moods, how they live and how they die, gives the garden successive layers of interest that extend into every month of the year.
- Maximize the beauty and interest from each planted space, by combining complementary plants that either grow/bloom together or follow each other in succession.
- Creating a series of peak garden moments is what you should want to achieve.
- In creating gardens, we often look back to what we found beautiful in our early years, sometimes unconsciously.
- Gardens never come to someone all at once. It takes years to make the garden of your dreams.
- Take advantage and understand of the ways plants grow and change over the seasons and years.
- Study how plants provide textures, colors and effects and how it makes you feel.
- Bring Foliage to eye level and see how different beds and areas peak at different times.
- Herbicides are not an option, hand weeding is done.
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