Evening gardens are designed from a unique perspective — created for drama with carefully selected plants featuring pale blooms and silvery foliage that shine in the moonlight, or night-scented flowers that release fragrance after dusk.
Sue Goetz
Sue Goetz is an award-winning garden designer, writer and speaker. Through her business, Creative Gardener, she works with clients to personalize outdoor spaces, from garden coaching to full landscape design. Writing and speaking are other ways she shares her love of the garden. Her motto, “inspiring gardeners to create,” defines her talks and hands-on workshops. Goetz is the author of “A Taste for Herbs” and “The Herb Lover’s Spa Book.”
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How to Pick the Best Hydrangeas for Your Garden
Gardening columnist Sue Goetz shares her tips.
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Make Them Look Twice: Small Changes to Create Big Curb Appeal
Curb appeal is the overall impression you get when you drive up or walk past a home. Our home and garden columnist shares tips on how to improve yours.
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How to Elevate Your Outdoor Living Space
Find a place in your garden to dwell, rest, live, and grow.
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A Garden for All Senses
Gardens have the power to help heal the body and mind. Here are a few ways to improve yours.
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Winter Skin Care with Herbs
As winter dampness settles in, the changing season alters the way people take care of their skin. Indoor heat can be drying, as furnaces and heaters take humidity from the air. Indoor air can be stuffy too, and the cold dampness chills to the bone. Go back to the garden with herbal remedies to help […]
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Florigraphy — The Language of Flowers
When we send someone flowers, they are usually sent to express a sentiment. Wishes of love, sympathies, regrets, new birth and death all get scribbled on the little card tucked into the arrangement. “Those of our time do use the flowers in sallads to exhilarate and make the mind glad. There be also many things […]
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The Beauty and Effect of Gravel in the Garden
Gravel patios or “terraces” are an outdoor element used in home landscapes in Europe for many centuries. Elegant and natural, they are typically made of crushed indigenous stone, widely used for many years because it was a readily available and inexpensive material. The look is an easy surface tamped to flatten and harden the terrace […]
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A Garden for Tea
Tea time will stop business in some cultures; it can also conjure up images of romantic and floriferous parties or bring warm relaxation to a cold winter day. Tea… Is it a ritual, an herb or a beverage? Technically, tea is the plant Camellia sinensis. Varieties of true tea plants are not cultivated in many […]