Tag: Designed Garden Journey
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Dreaming of Flowers? Time to Book a Garden Design Consultation
The author specializes in creating beautiful, functional, and environmentally friendly gardens tailored to individual lifestyles. Their expertise includes designing four-season landscapes, ensuring year-round appeal. Consultations involve discussing client needs, proposing design solutions, and transforming outdoor spaces. Services are available in select towns, with an invitation to book a design consultation.
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Exploring the Beauty of My Winter Entry Garden
Loving the mix of textures, shapes, forms, and foliage colors in my winter entry garden.
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A happy garden and Early Spring Flowers
Winter weary senses rejoice in the very early spring blooming plants. In a front garden they greet coming and going. The flowers beckon you to linger and engage your senses. It’s the best kind of treat–for you and the neighborhood.
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Charming Patio Makeover Seats 10!
Back yard makeover transforms this back patio from ugly to Charming, Beautiful, and Functional. Before: Nasty steep slope with miscellaneous plants to old ugly back patio. After: the newly installed landscape design transforms the back patio area. The back patio makeover includes wide easy to use granite steps and landings that lead to the new…
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Places to Inspire
Whatever your daily trek, we all need places to inspire us. Places that ask us to pause, breathe deep, and rediscover our connections. Nature leads me to that place of discovery. And, a direct inspiration for my work. It’s the patterns, patterns of interconnection, that most interest me. Shapes of plant colonies intersecting with others…
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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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Marsala Colors my Day
Aren’t these peonies luscious? The burgundy wine pink Marsala, Pantone’s 2015 color pick, is embodied in these peony selections. These yummy visions are from “Peony’s Envy” collection. I can envision them growing in my garden and enlivening my vases. I need such feast for the eyes and soul this freezing Mid-January day. The wind chill factor creates…