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Green and Pink
What’s not to love about this combination of the dependable pink reblooming fairy rose and the lacy green foliage of chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Gracilis’. I’m happy after the break it took mid-summer that the rose is back blooming it’s heart out by my front door. Nice welcoming. Thank you Rosa ‘the Fairy’!
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Irene’s Storm Tossed Combinations
Monday, August 29th–the day after Irene gusted, blew, and poured–I snapped this photo of my back shade garden. Storm tossed, but still intact and lovely, the flowers of the hosta (lavendar) and the ligularia dentata ‘Othello’ (yellow)– are lovely in combination. Yet it’s the foliage of all the plants–ferns, hostas, daphne, ladies’ mantle–that really makes…
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Back Yard Retreat
My clients really like to entertain outside. These photographs show the newly installed landscape design with multiple entertaining areas –pergola, patio, lawn and a flower garden that will look good in four seasons–plenty of plants for winter interest.
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A Great Place to Hang Out
In my work as a landscape designer, I create spaces for entertaining. I designed the deck shown above. The plan shows the footprint with the seating and openings for circulation. Here’s one built last winter shown just graded and seeded for the lawn surround. Now this section of the landscape design is almost completed –just…
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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).
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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…
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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…
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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…