We are delighted to reboot the journal as part of our redesigned website! Please visit mosaic-gardens.com to see the site and mosaic-gardens.com/journal/ to keep an eye on the latest Mosaic news, landscaping ideas and project photos. Thanks for visiting and see you there.
Rebecca and Buell
(Old information – thank you to all who attended!)
Visit our garden on Saturday, June 9!
Please stop by, walk through the garden and say hello! We’ve spruced the garden up for the Hardy Plant Garden Tour, and would love to share. Our garden is open to any and everyone interested, but the larger tour is for plant group members, by prior reservation.
We hope to see you tomorrow!
Not bad for a deer garden....
There comes a time in every good garden when you can stand back and recognize that all of your hard work, planning and, yes, frustration is paying off. Joy and Steve Davey’s garden has been a learning process (see our earlier journal article), but now that we’ve balanced the aesthetic goals with reality and a little time, the results are fantastic. The garden is having its first moment in the limelight in the current issue of Sunset (page 48!), and there is more to come.
Congratulations and thanks to Joy and Steve, who have given us the gifts of patience and inspiration in building and developing their garden. It will only get better from here!
Ted and Nancy Dobson’s Asian-inspired garden is getting a lot of attention these days! It is now featured in the May/June issue of Fine Gardening, where you can see some of Buell’s gorgeous photos and get a few ideas for your own small space from Rebecca’s article. Subscribers will receive their issues any day now, and non-subscribers can pick up their copies at Market of Choice, Jerry’s and some of the bigger bookstores on or after April 3.
We are delighted for the Dobsons! While we helped them lay the foundation of their garden, they have made it absolutely their own. The garden reflects not just their eye for detail and hard work, but their joyful and peaceful personalities, as well. Congratulations on a job well and beautifully done, Ted and Nancy!
Much more on the Dobson garden here.
Photos from a beautiful morning in the garden, plus a gratuitous pic of the newest Mosaic mascot, Kai! Hard to believe it’s the second day of spring….
Have you seen the terrific little garden on p. 44 of the latest issue of Sunset? Ted and Nancy’s Asian-inspired space is getting a bit of well-deserved attention!
You can learn more about the Dobson Garden in these journal entries, *and* in the next issue of Fine Gardening, which will feature lots of beautiful, new photos by Buell!
Much, much more to come!
The Dobson garden this fall
Even fall rains can’t get Ted and Nancy Dobson’s garden down. This tiny, magical space only gets better with age and the careful attention of its inhabitants. Readers familiar with the space through garden tours or the journal may note the beautiful new water feature at right, one of the Dobson’s summer projects. Stunning, isn’t it? It seems that we’re not the only ones who love this intricate and collaborative space, and you may get to see this fabulous garden in print soon (more details to come, of course)!
While photos may be worth a 1,000 words, a visit to this garden speaks volumes. The Dobsons’ garden (and several of our other gardens) will be on the tour for the Hardy Plant Study Weekend next June 7-10, 2012. Save the date and stay tuned for more information!
While we’ve been working away in Salem, of all places, two more of our gardens have put in an appearance on Sunset’s Fresh Dirt! These shady gardens are just a short hop apart in the Fairmount neighborhood, but they have dramatically different styles.
A post featuring the entry of the Hoyman Garden includes some of Buell’s terrific photos. You may remember that space from our earlier post here. It’s an evolving space that will be open for the first time on next spring’s Hardy Plant Study Weekend tour.
Another fabulous post about a garden shared by neighboring families, the Englishes and the Bascoms, highlights a young and very successful space in the Fairmount neighborhood.
There’s more to share in each of these gardens, so you can expect to see and learn more in future posts! For now, we’re back to stonework in Salem and creating a wonderful new garden that we hope to show you when it’s finished and a little filled in.
The Tersigni Garden
Have you seen the wonderful post about the coast garden on Sunset’s Fresh Dirt? I spent a lovely morning there with Jim McCausland, while he shot the photos you’ll see in the article (there must be 2000 more!). The Tersignis’ garden has been a delight to develop, and we couldn’t be more grateful to have such terrific clients and wonderful backdrop. More photos and notes on that garden can be found in some of our earlier posts, many of which are here (be sure to scroll down). And, of course, there are more photos and notes to come!
The Dobson Garden
Have you seen the Dobson garden on Sunset’s garden blog, Fresh Dirt? Jim McCausland’s terrific article and photos offer a great view of the peaceful courtyard garden. If you would like to know more, check out our earlier post on the space here. Careful observers will note changes between our photos and Jim’s. Like any great garden, Ted and Nancy are always refining their space, and we think it’s better than ever right now!
The Dobson garden will be on the Hardy Plant Study Weekend Tour next June. More information on the Study Weekend to come.
Mosaic Gardens Journal 