Outdoor Spaces Landscape Designs:  In addition to writing The North Country Gardener, I create garden designs and offer design coaching for gardeners. I also give lectures on gardening topics such as sustainable landscape design, the winter garden, and portraits of gardens to visit.

North Country Impressions: Dick has more lovely garden and landscape photographs on his website.

Speckled Dog Media: Kinna Öhman is the web-designer for The North Country Gardener. She is a delight to work with, and I highly recommend her design skills and her artistic eye.

Sites for cold-climate gardeners

Perusing the vast world on-line is one of the marvels of our digital age.  Here are some useful sites if you are interested in sustainable gardening in a cold climate:

• Cady’s Falls Nursery: spectacular display gardens and unusual hardy plants for sale.
• Leonard Perry’s Perennial Pages: tips and leads on growing perennials everywhere.
• Cold Climate Gardening: an inspiring blog whose title says it all
• The Vermont Gardener: an expansive blog by an extensive gardener; posts are both knowledgeable and helpful
• Vermont Extension Master Gardener: selling Landscape Plants for Vermont, the definitive reference book on woody plants that are hardy in Zones 3-5.
• Vermont Sun Structures: energy-efficient, beautiful handcrafted home greenhouses.
• Plant Maps: interactive USDA hardiness zone map, search-able by ZIP code.