Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design

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  • Winter Patterns

    Circular container, circular shaped plant (purple Kale), and a light layer of white crystals create this lovely pattern of light and dark. Even in winter, there a moments to enjoy along the journey from front door to car. Read more

  • Winter Bones

    Painter Andrew Wyeth  says “I prefer winter…when you feel the bone structure in the landscape–the loneliness of it–the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath –the whole story doesn’t show.”  I snapped this photo before the last blizzard. It captures the many nuances of the word “bones”.  We speak of the ‘bones of the landscape’ and we’re… Read more

  • snow enhancement

    I didn’t have time to complete the winter theme for the deck containers. However, it’s amazing what a little “snow enhancement” does to an incomplete arrangement of rhododendron, winterberry, and magnolia branches.  I had planned to gather some white pine and spruce to fill and finish the winter design. But alas….didn’t get done.  Thank heavens for… Read more

  • Pattern and Texture found in Golden Gate Bridge Gardens

    Golden Gate Bridge’s remarkably beautiful  Southeast Side Gardens overlooking the bridge filled my eyes with plant combinations and filled my soul with textural details. (You know the phrase, “God is in the details”?)  The leaf pattern of a plant unknown to me (it could native to South America, South Africa, or Europe’s Mediterranean Sea Area) fascinated and… Read more

  • Freezing here in New England while Roses in bloom in San Francisco

    Visiting family in San Francisco over the weekend I took this image of the gorgeous park planting at the Golden Gate Bridge Park (not the official name–too jet lagged to look it up). Here in New England I return to making winter arrangements in containers, decorating for the holidays and trying to ignore the garden clean-up chores… Read more

  • Savoring Creative Play

    I had fun Thanksgiving morning creating the table arrangement. Dashing outside (brrrrr) to clip leucothoe (a native New England broadleaf evergreen) from the garden to expand the grocery store bouquet, down to the storage room to find the gourd/leaf synthetic garland I used in the window box last year, and adding green candles found in my candle… Read more