Much of our focus this time of year is directed toward snow, Christmas, family, and the festivities surrounding the holidays. Not much attention is given to the plant kingdom outside of the annual Christmas tree, and house decor, but this season brings many unseen benefits to th Read more...
It’s September. The clouds are whiter and puffier than usual, the sky is clear and blue, and these September evenings are chilly. So chilly, in fact, that they make us excited for bonfires and campfires and little quality times spent around our own backyard patio fire-pits. Read more...
Here’s a common landscape myth: I moved to a new house; I need to just tear everything out and start over. Too often when we get in charge of something new, our first instinct is to make-over. Redo. Put our signature stamp on it. Out with the old, in with the new. Read more...
Here’s a common landscape myth: Never plant Taxus. Taxus, Yew. You may not know their name but you’ve seen ’em before….those unimaginative, hard green shapes that line every house and driveway in suburban America—can’t we just move past them and not use them anymore? We’re ti Read more...
I can easily make a natural, pleasant look in my yard just by putting in curves. Not always. In landscape design, you’ve got to be careful with curves. Too many and it feels too cutesy, squiggly, and busy. Too few and it feels too sterile. Curvature done well in the landscape Read more...
Really? No fragrance, no movement, no back-lit leafy transparency? No softness, no changing seasonal effect? No swelling buds, no emerging green, no growth, no quiet surprise of spring color? No gentle transformation from green to gold to orange and scarlet as summer turns to fal Read more...