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...
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The starry mass of the late blooming “Sweet Autumn’ Clematis welcomes visitors to Carlisle Center Park. It’s a great example of vertical gardening with the clematis’ amazing span across the fence. The planting also creates one ‘wall’ of the “outdoor room” I created for the conversation area. The massed...
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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 the front door. The...
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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 bloom with tons of...
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copyright 2010 Maria von Brincken The 60 degree weather yesterday was wonderful. In many years, a January or February thaw would be a great time to cut back large ornamental grasses. Not this year! The garden’s still buried under now snow mounds high above my head. This photo of the early blooming clematis ‘grandiflora’ helps me remember...
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