Tag: landscape designer
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Spring Front Gardens are Feasts for your Eyes
Colorful pairing of bulbs and shrubs create the first phase of flowering succession as part of a custom landscape design.
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Reimaging Your Landscape & Gardens
Image yourself pausing in this happy garden Just a few minutes on the way to or from somewhere. Image all your senses engaged. Surrounded by flower gardens, slowing down to hear the bees buzzing and the birds tweeting, scents of flowers, sun and the occasional breeze on your skin. Calm. Deep Breathing. Creating this Garden…
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Garden Design in the time of Covid-19
Staring out your windows and walking around your yards during our Covid-19 hibernation can be depressing. If you’re wondering if I’m available to help you with your aggravating landscape problems. The answer is Yes! I’m creating landscapes and gardens plans. I’m available for design planning and coaching over Chime, Zoom, or FaceTime. I can work…
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Gardens Help Relieve Stress-Consider “Garden Bathing”
Consider a new take on “Forest bathing”–I call it “Garden Bathing”. “Forest bathing is taking time to unwind and connect with nature to improve your health. Simply put: Forest bathing is retreating to nature to immerse in the forest atmosphere. The practice originated in Japan in the late 1980’s and was coined by the Japanese…
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Lighting Our Way
March roars in like a lion and leaves like a lamb. Prickly pear hail storms batter us. While the next day, gentle sun caresses our skin. One moment black clouds, while another cerulean skies give way to contented sighs. Meteorological spring has sprung. Daffodil stems from grocery stores now cheer up our counters and tables.…
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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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Quick Fall Harvest/Halloween Containers
Welcoming Fall Harvest Entry Container Arrangements That frosty morning “did in” the flowering annuals in my front containers. I had procrastinated and now dead leaves greeted me. Time to make fall themed containers! The Containers You See are Quickly Made. You can fill your fall and winter containers with branches found in your yard (or…
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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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Containers Ideas found on a Mini Vacation
Sitting in Boston Public Garden I’m enjoying a special early-morning moment on a lovely summer like day. On shady bench in front of an active fountain, I’m relishing it’s gentle sound except when the tourist with the creaky wheeled cart goes by. I’ve rediscovered that when you have a house guest from out of town, you become a…
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Maria von Brincken Teaches Color Gardens at Mass Hort
Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three-Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal In this three-session tutorial course Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you how to use color and plants to design gardens filled with color from flowers and foliage. You’ll learn how to create beautiful plant combinations that flower from spring to…