April 20, 2016

Designing with Native Plants for Ecological Services – Westchester County NY

When we look at many of our designed and constructed residential landscapes, what do we see? Is there a variety of plants, flowers, colors, heights? Is there a variety of different trees? Are there tall, mature trees providing shade and canopy? Is your landscape dominated by lawn? What condition is the lawn in? Are there layers of perennial beds and 

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April 16, 2016

The Sunrise Garden of Pastoral Bliss

Design Concept/Scope of Work We intend to reorganize your existing landscape to create a stronger thematic composition in your lovely, bucolic setting. We will repurpose and transplant your landscape material where we mutually consider best placement. The scope of work includes the pool area adding stone from your Woodland property to the front gravel walkway for a Zen effect and 

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April 16, 2016

Garden of Celestial Happiness Tour

It’s that time again ! We are offering a tour of our special ‘Garden of Celestial Happiness ‘again, Sunday, August 21 @ 10 a.m. Things are really singing now! The butterflies are free to fly ! Hummingbirds, goldfinches..everybody’s happy! This is also the peak for native wildflowers blooming on the island! Come visit ‘Haven’ and ‘Paradise’ at the Wetland Wildlife 

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April 16, 2016

Shade Garden and No Mow Landscape Design in Westchester

We live in a forest culture on the east coast. When many of our ancestors came to the new world as immigrants the forest were being cleared for the first or second time. If you stop mowing your lawn in Westchester, in time you probably would not be looking at a meadow but a young forest.   That’s fine with 

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April 6, 2016

Landscape Design and Spring Flowering Bulbs – Westchester County

I feel like no contemporary landscape design is complete without a spring flowering bulb display. These wonderful plants add so much cheerfulness to the early spring. They start the season off early and extend our enjoyment of our gardens and landscape for up to six weeks. The varieties of bulbs available to the trade are astounding in their diversity, color 

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