From Ordinary to Extraordinary This Entry Garden is designed to draw your eye to the recessed front door. The wide and roomy bluestone entry path acts a mini courtyard with the container as the focal point. Filling it with bold color and repeating the color in the planted annuals surrounding it help draw your eye to the front door. The color echoes the...
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It’s Mid October and the Montauk Daisy steals the show. Just beyond it we see the fall seedheads of Black-eyed Susans and the autumn coloring of the four varieties of Hydrangea. This lush “mixed border” type flower garden was planted this last May 2022. That’s 5 months ago. The design planning for this Spring Planting Installation...
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A Client writes: Garden design by Maria von Brincken. Planted May 2022. Flower Gardens start with a Plan & a Vision This past May we shaped beds and planted my Landscape Design that was created the previous fall. Working with Jim and Diane, the Plan for the Perimeter Flower Garden would embrace two sides of their property. The new garden connects...
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My Shade Garden Both retreat and design inspiration, my daily treks could easily be considered “forest bathing”. Quick strolls and lingering pauses help me absorb the garden as it is awakening my senses. Pausing in the garden also rests my brain, so active while I’m deep into design work creating landscapes and gardens. The drift of Pink...
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Swing in the Ferns Create a Sitting Garden and Rest Your Brain A bench or a chair creates the simplest of Sitting Gardens. The gardens I create are designed to invite you to pause and linger. Invite you to engage your senses. Even if just for a few minutes. Turns out that research indicates that the “pause” is important to rest you brain....
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Landscape & Garden designed and implemented by Maria von Brincken. Image yourself pausing in this happy garden Just a few minutes on the way to or from somewhere. Image all your senses engaged. Surrounded by flower gardens, slowing down to hear the bees buzzing and the birds tweeting, scents of flowers, sun and the occasional breeze on your skin. Calm....
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