Consider how you can benefit from removing your lawn and replacing it with a vibrant, flowering, ecologically friendly landscape. If your landscape consists of a lawn which you mow, water and fertilize regularly, a couple of trees and shrubs, and basically nothing else of interest, consider change. Consider elevating your landscape for your human health, wildlife, and aesthetic beauty. Below: …
Flowering plants give us pleasure and enjoyment. They also provide critical ecosystem services in our landscape environment. This lovely cottage style garden in downtown White Plains serves as a precious sanctuary for pollinators and a tremendous variety of migrating birds. Developing Westchester’s green spaces / native plant corridors are valuable to many life forms from the soil microorganisms to the …
Whether you are in field or forest edge in Westport or have a traditional lawn and foundation landscape in New Canaan or a rooftop terrace in Stamford, you can beautify your landscape environment, elevate your wellness and provide a Pollinator Pathway. Ask yourself: what do I want from my landscape? Answers could be: attractiveness, colorful, winter interest, curb appeal, low …
Realizing a Site’s Potential. Each landscape offers distinct opportunities and challenges. Like snowflakes, not two client’s or properties are quite the same. Although similarities may present, there are always significant differences characteristic to the individual site and client. As a landscape design professional, horticulturist, naturalist and ecologist, I am interested in the unusual or distinct aspects of a particular project …
Follow our journey on one of our biggest landscape design and construction projects of 2019! This project required two machines and three truck loads of top soil and two loads of boulders to achieve this three foot lift and leveling of the rear lawn. An organic lawn installation and terraced garden for pollinators completes this ecological masterpiece. For more …