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.
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.”
Posted inGarden
How to Elevate Your Outdoor Living Space
Find a place in your garden to dwell, rest, live, and grow.
Posted inGarden
A Garden for All Senses
Gardens have the power to help heal the body and mind. Here are a few ways to improve yours.
Posted inGarden
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 […]
Posted inFeatured, Garden
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 […]
Posted inFeatured, Garden
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 […]
Posted inFeatured, Garden
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 […]
Posted inFeatured, Garden
Put on Your Winter Bloomers
Good garden design shows no bias to seasons; there is something for everyone as the changes mingle and blend. To discover the garden in winter, bundle up and take a walk outside. The season shows the real bone structure and also reveals the nakedness of mixed planting borders that don’t have much to offer after […]
Posted inFeatured, Garden
Gifts From the Garden
There is much to learn about the garden: the planting, the weeding, the pruning, what to grow, plus all those plant names. One of the more enjoyable aspects of what a garden teaches is how the garden gives back. A gifting garden is all about growing useful plants — varieties that are harvested and preserved […]