Tag: Custom Garden 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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It’s that time of year…to reimagine the landscape you live in
Time to reimage the landscape you live in. Time to Create a Backyard Oasis. Time to book me for a Landscape Planning Consultation.
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Spring Front Gardens are Feasts for your Eyes
Colorful pairing of bulbs and shrubs create the first phase of flowering succession as part of a custom landscape design.
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Front Entry Transformation
From ordinary to extraordinary, this four season garden features a mini courtyard with focal point and colorful plant combinations.
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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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Reimaging Your Landscape & Gardens
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. Deep Breathing. Creating this Garden…
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Learn the Art of Planting Design using the Plants You Love this July
“The Art of Planting Design, Designing with the Plants You Love” will be explored on three virtual Wednesdays, July 15, 22, 29 (10am-2pm) with a site visit on Thursday, July 16. In this four-session tutorial course Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you the art of lay-out, plant combinations using color, and creating waves of…
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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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Lighting Our Way
March roars in like a lion and leaves like a lamb. Prickly pear hail storms batter us. While the next day, gentle sun caresses our skin. One moment black clouds, while another cerulean skies give way to contented sighs. Meteorological spring has sprung. Daffodil stems from grocery stores now cheer up our counters and tables.…