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Take a Moment to Notice the Autumn Light on the Plumes
As landscape designers, we create spaces to experience “outside” and a large part of that experience is creating planting combinations that work four seasons. This ornamental grass glows with the light of late afternoon and contrasts the deep maroon fall leaves and green conifer beyond. We imagine them, you get to take a moment and look… Read more
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Will these Late Bloomers Last ’til Thanksgiving?
The bench always invites no matter the season and also frames the garden view here. The plantings embrace and these ‘Clara Curtis’ daisies romp freely in the garden. Indeed, plant them with plenty of room and the intent to control them in early spring by pulling out the expanding ones. I’m enjoying them daily and… Read more
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Charming Frost Colored Leaves
The sun highlighted this ‘Johnson’s Blue’ perennial geranium foliage when I went to fetch the Sunday paper. The spotlight shifted when I photographed it minutes later, but you get the idea of these brilliant lovely orange leaves complimented by the blue/gray dianthus, the brown astilbe, and the green chamaecyparis conifer foliage. Even though it’s mid November look for combinations… Read more
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Texture Combinations in the Early November Garden
Today–this combination has ‘gone by’–the recent storm washed the orange foliage to the ground. However, for several weeks autumn color of the green leafed Japanese maple (acer p. d. ‘viridis’) and the ferns presented this lovely visual gift. Read more
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Treat at our Feet in the Early November Garden
Wandering the gardens doing a bit of fall clean-up –cutting back some dead perennial foliage– I rediscovered this wonderful combination of creeping Thyme, fieldstone steppers, and Ladies Mantle. This composition of color and texture creates the view you only find at your feet from late April to at least early November. Read more