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Tools of Enchantment
I’m happy to post a link to my feature article in WaterShapes Magazine. Enjoy! http://watershapes.com/landscape/plants/hardscape/decks/tools-of-enchantment.html?utm_source=WaterShapes+20+January+2016&utm_campaign=1-20+newsletter&utm_medium=email
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October Colorful Shrubs in New England
Mid-October in New England is the time of colorful shrubs. The green leaves of summer respond to cool temperatures and short days. To the left, the burgundy hued foliage of the ‘Mariessi’ viburnums and the “just-starting-to turn” Oakleaf hydrangeas wear their fall colors while the pink ‘Knock Out’ shrub rose continues to bloom. …
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Patio Garden Make-Over Blends Old with New
Here’s one of my recently completed projects – a patio garden make-over after a kitchen and family room renovation. I love it when existing clients call me when they are doing a renovation. I already know their garden style, family lifestyle, how they use and enjoy their landscape, color palette, and the land’s orientation to sun and shadow. (Of…
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Garden Paths–Journey and Destination
Happy to say that I was quoted extensively in Sunday, July 12, 2015 Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Here’s link so you can read the section on paths. https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/07/10/projects-that-will-add-flair-your-garden/Dy1UtryOiL9x9AMLafYG7O/story.html
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Stunning Perennial and Shrub Combinations
Often gardeners grow really beautiful plants well, but they don’t look like much. That’s because they’re just randomly plunked in the garden or at look that way. Gardeners don’t think about creating stunning perennial and shrub combinations. Usually it’s because the flowering perennial or shrub lacks a contrasting background that also may enhance the color.…
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Home Gardener Landscape Design Coaching
Landscape Design Summer Workshop Award winning landscape designer, flower garden specialist, and home gardener coach, Maria von Brincken, will teach a four session workshop this July at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS). Perennials & Shrubs Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal. This four session tutorial course will teach you how…
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Home Gardener Landscape Design Coaching
Landscape Design Summer Workshop Award winning landscape designer, flower garden specialist, and home gardener coach, Maria von Brincken, will teach a four session workshop this July at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS). Perennials & Shrubs Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal. This four session tutorial course will teach you how…
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Dreaming my spring flower garden
I’m dreaming. I’m dreaming of my spring flower garden. I’m longing to see the daffodils by the granite bird bath with the emerging silver allium by the grey wooden bench with the green metal legs. It’s been a long, long winter here in New England. I’m dreaming of my spring flower garden. I remember…
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Well-Designed Entry Gardens: Healthy, Welcoming, and Beautiful
A well-designed Entry Garden welcomes you, your family, and guests daily. It’s the place you trek through on car or foot to gather the mail and perhaps the newspaper. It’s the first place you see when you return home and the last place as you travel to work, school, or wherever. It’s beauty can cheer, soothe,…
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Color Starved? Enjoy these Plant Combinations
Mid February in New England finds us color starved. We’ve seen enough white. Piles of snow cover our landscapes and line our roads. We’ve received over 6 ft of snow in the last two weeks. Enough! I hope these images of spring and summer plantings help.