Tag: Designed Garden Journey
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Boston Flower Show a Beauty in sights, sounds, and scent
The Boston Flower Show open through March 18th stimulates all your senses. I’ve so many great photos of beautiful garden rooms with lovely details and features. Difficult to choose one photo, but the enchantment in the exhibit designed as a children’s garden featured above won my vote this morning. As a landscape exhibit Judge representing the…
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Arnold keeps its Promise
Away over President’s Day holiday weekend, I returned to find the Witch Hazel ‘Arnold’s Promise’ in full bloom! This wonderful Hamamelis leads the way to springs’ bounty. Depending on the winter it blooms from anywhere from late January or early February to April. In last year’s record- setting cold and deep snow cover winter it…
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Creating Place, a unique ‘Home’ Place, and Solving Drainage Problems
Arriving at this home before this landscape renovation (see ‘before’ photo below), you may well wonder why this landscape needed renovation. After all, the lawn looks great and the plantings are okay. That’s it. Just looked ok. But the great lawn can’t make it a special place to live. Walking the path on a dry…
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Late Fall Images from my Garden
The garden’s a mess–the hard frost took out most of the perennial foliage. But look at what I see out my windows and as I travel the garden path. The first photo shows a close-up of the late fall foliage color. The planting composition you see below shows spirea in yellow with brown flower remains,…
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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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Just Completed Sanctuary Garden
Welcome to the side entry to this sanctuary garden retreat. Designed to provide privacy and special views from the new four season room, this garden also provides gathering spaces on the new lawn and in the courtyard area around the bend. You can see the field-stone stepping stone path at the edge of the photo.…
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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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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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Contemporary Courtyard Magic
This contemporary (post modern?) style home had a serious grading and drainage issues and people and car circulation problems. The problems were solved by a fieldstone retaining wall, the parking court with path and edging, a meandering curve path to front door, and the arch that framed the entry and repeated the arch design of…