February 4, 2019

When is the Best Time to Prune Your Overgrown Flowering Tree?

We make it a practice to evaluate every feature of the landscape during the initial consultation. We look at the property as if our family owned it and lived there! We are interested in evaluating and analyzing every view, every tree and plant, drainage and flow paths; what we can see and even what we can’t. In this case, our 

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January 28, 2019

Landscape Design Master Plans: Design, Plan & Adapt | Rye, NY

Each and every landscape environment, each property, each client, each homeowner offers a unique and special opportunity to improve or downright convert the landscape into a highly efficient and productive ecological system.  In this day and age of climate change and environmental threats to our well-being and human health, we must find ways to optimize existing conditions and resources while redesigning 

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January 19, 2019

How to Hire a Landscape Designer or Landscape Architect; What is a Landscape Ecologist and Why You Should Hire One

When we think about our landscape what do we think about? It could be a simple as what you might do to make your property look better or be able to entertain outdoors more. It may be something useful and practical, something you need, like a new driveway, a retaining wall, new walkway, a green lawn etc. Maybe it will 

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January 15, 2019

What Business is Ours? Landscapes for Better Living

What do we do? Why do we do it? How do we do it? We are in the nature business. We work with nature every day, with plants, soil, water, and countless creatures. We believe nature is an expression of God’s love. We need to appreciate it, love it and value our precious natural resources: the trees, the flowers, the 

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December 3, 2018

Pond Restoration & Native Bog Garden in White Plains

This adorable property features a stream babbling through the backyard.  At one point, probably in the 1930s, a concrete dam was poured to create a “natural” swimming pond that until now, held up fairly well, but had recently begun leaking in several spots.  Given the woodland setting, the pond had also accumulated quite a bit of debris from surrounding trees, which clouded 

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