Tag: Custom Garden Design
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Laceleaf in the Unusual Fall Snow
The Laceleaf Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum ‘Filicifolium’) looks great with or without snow in October. The normally light green leaves become this rich “red” color in the fall. Often starting to “turn” at leaf’s edge in late August, this maple plays a starring role in this part of the garden. In early spring, its’ brilliant red…
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Fall Tapestry before the Freak October Snow
The pink roses and burgundy foliage of the viburnum ‘Mariessi’ harmonize well together, don’t they!
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Abundance of the Late Flowering
Love this late flowering daisy. It may be the ‘Clara Curtis’ mum started from a piece from my previous garden. I manage it by pulling out huge chunks each spring and never put in a client’s garden because it’ll overrun if not watched and culled. But I love the fact that it’s one of the…
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Fall Foliage Tapestry in my Entry Garden
I’ve just updated the plantings with some fall blooming mums and asters on the steps and landing. But I’ve loved this foliage tapestry that greets me daily all thru the seasons. Now the richness of color, contrast, and detail of form in the foliage combination reflects a fall garden in that the large purple aster…
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Traditional Home Makeover
This home used be hidden by plants–well groomed, but awful! It was like a pretty girl with a bad haircut. The “before design” and “after design renovation” shows an overgrown landscape planting that hides the best features of this traditional New England home. The “after” landscape improvement photo, shows a carefully designed mix of foliage…
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A Break in the Rainfall
Seems like it’s been raining for days, and it has. But the cloud cover brightened a bit late this morning so I could snap this photo. I thought I’d share the view that lightens my mood and greets me each day. Recently the vine clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’ began its’ white flowering, the daphne continues to…
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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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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…