Tag: New England Spring
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Snowdrops and Hellebores: Early Spring Garden Delights
As winter fades and the snow melts, the author anticipates the arrival of Snowdrops and Hellebores in their garden. These early spring flowers symbolize hope and are appealing and deer and rabbits don’t eat them. The author expresses excitement for their beauty and promotes landscape design consultations to help others envision their dream gardens.
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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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Welcome Spring with Early Blooming Perennials
It’s fun to watch for early spring flowers to appear in your garden. Helps to temper gray skies and soggy days. Now’s the time to start planning your garden’s design.
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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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It’s that time of year…to reimagine the landscape you live in
Time to reimage the landscape you live in. Time to Create a Backyard Oasis. Time to book me for a Landscape Planning Consultation.
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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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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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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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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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Stunning Perennial and Shrub Combinations
Often gardeners grow really beautiful plants well, but they don’t look like much. That’s because they’re just randomly plunked in the garden or at look that way. Gardeners don’t think about creating stunning perennial and shrub combinations. Usually it’s because the flowering perennial or shrub lacks a contrasting background that also may enhance the color.…