Tag: Custom Landscape
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Late Fall Farm House Borders & Meadow
It’s late October. Ornamental native grasses mixed with seedpods, late flowering white Boltonia, and varied foliage colors rule the meadow. In the house borders, Sedum “Autumn Joy” provides color combined with the lingering silver grey foliage of Russian Sage, Achillea, and the silvery fronds of the dwarf Fountain Grass. “October Glory” Maples color the landscape…
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Farm House Meadow & Borders
Year two: The pollinator wildflower meadow is taking off while the house gardens fill in.The two gardens share some of the same plants so they connect visually and create a sense of abundance.These are happy gardens. The meadow is wilder and seemly more randomly planted.…
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Decluttering Your Garden
Marie Kondo’s method for decluttering your house works for your garden too. While Reading her book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up I realized I’ve been using my own version for decades for designing landscapes, coaching gardeners, and teaching classes. Turns out that the word “clutter” easily replaces the word “chaos” . Chaos created from…
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How to Arrange Summer Annuals in Containers
Colorful containers play a starring role in my garden, but especially this summer with New England’s prolonged drought. It was time for an “end-of-summer refresh” for two key containers. Surprisingly the drought this summer hasn’t affected my garden’s seeming lushness. Right plant in the right place is key here and good soil. However, one effect…
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Front Foundation Planting Gets A Facelift
Sometimes plantings get overgrown, tired, or the current design doesn’t work. They need a face-lift, or a re-design. The front foundation plantings, in this case, were not only overgrown, but they hid a beautiful real stone facade at the front door. The composition of this left side foundation planting didn’t really work with the…
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Gardening at Dawn on a Summer-Like Day
I love gardening at dawn on a summer morning. Cool enough to pull weeds, prune branches, deadhead, plant, lay mulch as I did this last weekend-of-May Sunday. Yet it’s warm enough for shorts and a tshirt. It’s a time of birdsong and quiet in the neighborhood. No noisy lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or power songs.…
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How to make a Winter Garden to Delight, Invite, and Inspire
Winter landscapes and their views don’t have be dull or ugly. When well designed they delight and invite you to look out and perhaps venture outside to explore.
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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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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.
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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…