On Tuesday evening a box of fresh off the press copies of the relaunched Garden Design Magazine arrived at my house. I know I cannot provide a truly objective point of view since I contributed an article (page #62 ) and pretty much stop every ten minutes to confirm it is really there. But the magazine is must subscribe and great coffee table book.
When the magazine shut back in 2013, it was sad but not initially mourned. Its last issues were too west coast, uber high end, and less grounded in horticulture. Then I started reading shelter magazines for their garden features and just got annoyed. Great photos, but plant IDs were limited to boxwood, roses, lavender and hydrangeas and never helped readers gain any plant knowledge. Worse yet, articles always skipped over the often amazing landscape designers and architects that created the spaces. Garden Design needed to come back!
The team at the magazine really listened to all the chatter about the magazine, interviewed readers, and realigned to create a garden magazine that can be enjoyed by people across zones, coasts, yard size and level of horticulture knowledge. The magazine includes no ads or sponsored content and the paper is think with some heft to the magazine. Congratulations to the team at the magazine and thank you for allowing me to be a part of it. I pinch myself you included me with the cool kids (ahem, Dan Hinkley) in helping to bring it back.
Ok, now go subscribe!
Just wanted to tell you what an outstanding blog you have – which led me to your website – and another wow moment looking at your designs. Outstanding work – wish you were in the NW! Kristin
Thank you so much for the comment! It is so nice to hear some feedback……and, by the way, half the time I wish I was in the northwest too!
fantastic put up, very informative. I wonder why the opposite specialists of this
sector do not understand this. You must continue your writing.
I’m confident, you have a great readers’ base already!