Tag: Beauty
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Landscape Design for a Vibrant Spring Garden
As spring blooms with vibrant flowers, the garden beckons us to enjoy its beauty and unwind. If your garden doesn’t, now’s the time to book a Landscape Design Consultation and bring your dream outdoor space to life.
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Celebrating Snow Flowers and Winter Wonders
The author reflects on the beauty of fresh snow during winter, recalling the term “Snow Flowers” which evokes images of delicate snow formations on branches. Inspired by a novel about a Japanese winter festival, they encourage appreciation of the natural wonders around us, inviting others to explore the outdoors.
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Welcome Spring with Early Blooming Perennials
It’s fun to watch for early spring flowers to appear in your garden. Helps to temper gray skies and soggy days. Now’s the time to start planning your garden’s design.
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Elegant Stone Number Piers: A Design Solution for Home Addresses
The post discusses the challenge of house numbering and presents a solution: a stone number pier integrated with an entry garden. Inspired by the historic Codman House, the design features natural stone piers and seasonal plantings that enhance the landscape. A client praises the designer’s creativity and long-term project management skills.
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Transform Your Landscape to Extraordinary
Booking an initial Landscape Consultation is the first step in the Design Process. Explore and reimage the possibilities to beauty, function, and earth-friendliness in your landscape and gardens.
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Gardens Help Relieve Stress-Consider “Garden Bathing”
Consider a new take on “Forest bathing”–I call it “Garden Bathing”. “Forest bathing is taking time to unwind and connect with nature to improve your health. Simply put: Forest bathing is retreating to nature to immerse in the forest atmosphere. The practice originated in Japan in the late 1980’s and was coined by the Japanese…
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Pause, Savor & Breathe with Long Exhales–Garden Bathing
Consider a new take on “Forest bathing”. “Forest bathing is taking time to unwind and connect with nature to improve your health. Simply put: Forest bathing is retreating to nature to immerse in the forest atmosphere. The practice originated in Japan in the late 1980’s and was coined by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry…
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What’s Beauty Anyway?
To some, it’s a well organized sock drawer, or the roll of a perfect putt, or the gurgle of a remote canyon stream. Or a garden. To me, its not “either–or, but “and”. Our home landscape and gardens have to potential to offer a place of retreat, play, welcome, and beauty. A designed landscape and…
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Maria von Brincken Teaches Color Gardens at Mass Hort
Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three-Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal In this three-session tutorial course Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you how to use color and plants to design gardens filled with color from flowers and foliage. You’ll learn how to create beautiful plant combinations that flower from spring to…
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Take a Moment for Wonder
Check off the Design boxes Function, Horticulture, and Beauty to set the stage for a moment of wonder—even in winter.