Tag: Custom Landscape
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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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Green and Pink
What’s not to love about this combination of the dependable pink reblooming fairy rose and the lacy green foliage of chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Gracilis’. I’m happy after the break it took mid-summer that the rose is back blooming it’s heart out by my front door. Nice welcoming. Thank you Rosa ‘the Fairy’!
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Irene’s Storm Tossed Combinations
Monday, August 29th–the day after Irene gusted, blew, and poured–I snapped this photo of my back shade garden. Storm tossed, but still intact and lovely, the flowers of the hosta (lavendar) and the ligularia dentata ‘Othello’ (yellow)– are lovely in combination. Yet it’s the foliage of all the plants–ferns, hostas, daphne, ladies’ mantle–that really makes…
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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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A Great Place to Hang Out
In my work as a landscape designer, I create spaces for entertaining. I designed the deck shown above. The plan shows the footprint with the seating and openings for circulation. Here’s one built last winter shown just graded and seeded for the lawn surround. Now this section of the landscape design is almost completed –just…