Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design

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  • The Garden Comes Alive

    I know it’s really spring because the flowers have started. These early blooming spring bulbs cheered me despite the clouds and threatening rain yesterday. Who knows what I’ll find tomorrow after today’s downpours. Read more

  • Pansies & Pussywillow Brighten the Early Spring Garden

    Planting the large containers in this city garden/outdoor room I designed and installed last year brightens the early spring garden. Any day now the spring flowering bulbs will bloom in bursts of color. Soon after the earliest flowering shrubs will add to the chorus. The hellebore are blooming now. The blue, white, dark pink pansies highlighted with the pussywillow… Read more

  • Muted Tones of Early Spring Woodland

    Driving around and thru local towns, I notice the brown and grey theme of the local woodlands–nothing wrong with it, but I’m winter weary. It’s always this way in early spring here in New England–uninspiring native landscape and my own cultivated land a mess. But I find if I look to the places with water… Read more

  • Favorite Flower Show Image

        I love this image and this display taken at the Boston Flower Show, March 18, the morning I managed to attend.  It shows color, form, texture from plants, sculpture, and field-stone steppers. I love the use of sculpture in this exhibit as a whole. I wish more people would go the extra step and… Read more

  • Boston Flower Show

    Thoroughly enjoyed my morning at the Boston Flower Show, so much lovely color to our winter starved eyes. Okay, I’m talking color and tons of flowers, yet the image I chose displays huge stones and plantings to create a wonderful garden room. Note the suggested walls, windows, and floor. And this landscape’s got a little of everything– a deciduous… Read more

  • Ochids & Witch Hazel-Two different Winter Flowering Plants

        An unlikely combination, but the welcoming cheer of early blooming Witch Hazel ‘Arnold’s Promise’ greets me outside, while the white orchids inside provide a note of grace. Note that the green leaves of the broad-leaf evergreen Rhododendron provides contrast so I can “see” the wonderful yellow flowers of the Hamamelis. In earlier winters,… Read more