Tag: outdoor rooms
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Come learn with me! Reimagining entry gardens: designing for winter. New start date 3/11
Learn how to design your Winter Entry Garden. Workshop class starts March 4 at New England Botanical Garden. Sign up now. Space is limited
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Maria von Brincken Speaks at Boston Flower Show
SUDBURY, MA—Ever wonder how to make outdoor rooms using vines? Award winning landscape designer and flower garden specialist, Maria von Brincken, a featured speaker at this year’s Boston Flower and Garden Show www.bostonflowershow.com will share those techniques. Held at the Seaport World Trade Center, on Sunday, March 20th at 1:30 PM, Maria will talk about vertical gardening…
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Winter Wonder Found on a Chilly Morning
Twenty degrees Fahrenheit at 9am on a Sunday morning. A cold January New England day with a wind chill factor of 0! I spotted this evergreen fern thriving in this hundred fifty year old foundation wall. Cold or not, I paused to admire and dig out my camera. The field-stone wall retains the glacier made…
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This Squirrel a Friend of Yours?
This squirrel’s enjoying the rose hips offered by Rosa ‘new dawn’. I thought rose hips were eaten by the birds only. Imagine my surprise looking out my window at the rose trellis and coming eye to eye with this fellow. By the time I got my camera out, he or she had turned but you…
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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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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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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…
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Outdoor Rooms We Love
Green walls form outdoor rooms as well as wood. From HGTV, a garden I submitted to Rate My Space on page 5 of “Outdoor Rooms We Love From Rate My Space” illustrates this concept. Happily its one of eight favorite garden rooms selected by viewers. See it at http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/outdoor-rooms-we-love-from-rate-my-space/pictures/page-5.html