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Summer Sea of Mint or Natural Herb Garden
Mint creates a lovely ground cover, flowers profusely mid-summer, and is great in my watermelon salad! (Mint is the lavender spiked plant growing in the foreground). Read more
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Woodland Garden in Process
In the midst of construction, this woodland garden shows it’s bones. The field-stone stepper path, the boulder marking the steps to the lower area, the area laid-out for the BBQ pad of granite squares, and the first large drifts of ferns and lily-of-the-valley shape the spaces and create texture and movement . What you don’t… Read more
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Clouds and Biophilians
Photo: Maria von Brincken copyright 2011 Sometimes clouds add an awesome dimension. Here in this landscape created by beavers, herons rear their young, while birds sing, frogs croak, and humans, if they are lucky enough to encounter this world, rediscover wonder. Biologist E. O. Wilson coined the word “biophilia’ to express the idea that “we have… Read more
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Mid-Summer Container Combinations
The garden’s alive with daylily joy and the hostas are going mad with flowers, too. The containers that flank my front door and steps continue to greet me daily with flower color. I think annuals add an additional layer of exuberance of color and happiness. I find using them in containers the easiest to maintain… Read more
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Busy Season, Such a Beautiful Spring to enjoy Flowering Trees
Forgot to publish this photo of the landscape I designed that includes the existing flowering trees leading the eye up the drive. Working with the client I created new driveway perennial bed for waves of seasonal color. The Spring bulbs that you see flowering in harmony above is the first wave of the season. Now in early July the beds are filled… Read more