• Making a Dream (Plan) Real

    The dream starts at the first client meeting. And the landscape plan maps it. Then the installation begins to make the dream real. Below are some images from a landscape I’m working with. Last fall we constructed a curving perimeter stone wall with an arbor entry and installed the Knoll and Rock Sitting Gardens. Now… Read more

  • BUILD Magazine Award for Best Residential Landscape Design

    BUILD Magazine has announced winners of the 2018 Landscaping and Gardening Awards.       Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design Best for Residential Landscape Design 2018 – Middlesex County The 2018 Landscaping and Gardening Awards pays homage to those who create the picturesque vistas and accentuate nature’s beauty through thoughtfully designed gardens, parks and… Read more

  • City Shapes

    As seen walking to and from my car. Read more

  • Great ideas from Boston Flower Show

    More photos to inspire or inform that caught my eye. Read more

  • Images from the Boston Flower & Garden Show

    Wandering among the exhibits before I speak today on “Color Gardens”, I snapped some images of design elements that illustrate concepts for my clients. Here are a few: Read more

  • Places to Inspire

    Places to Inspire

    Whatever your daily trek, we all need places to inspire us. Places that ask us to pause, breathe deep, and rediscover our connections. Nature leads me to that place of discovery. And, a direct inspiration for my work. It’s the patterns, patterns of interconnection, that most interest me. Shapes of plant colonies intersecting with others… Read more