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Landscaping
Christie’s Fine Gardening offers upscale landscaping and garden design, installation, and lawn maintenance services. We are the quintessential one-stop shopping for creative landscapes and fine gardening.
Our Southern Gardens are not only captivating from afar, but create a soulful connection between you and nature. Every time you move into the space, you feel better. Have a look at some of our garden makeovers . . .
Creative Gardening
Over the last 25 years in the Richmond area, we have developed a crew that executes all aspects of creating and preserving plantings, stonework, water features, and garden accents, so they are more spectacular with time.
Garden Design
Christie’s objective is to design, install, and maintain the perfect landscape garden for you. Christie and her team use garden design plans as a blueprint to develop your luxury garden. Read more about the design process . . .
Lawn and Garden Maintenance
We provide ongoing maintenance for your lawn or garden and flower beds and are evaluating such things as:
- if a plant has outgrown its space, we try to move it where it will thrive
- if perennials are too big or need a sunnier spot, we split them
- the best time of year to prune back an overgrown evergreen
- the optimal times to spray particularly invasive lawn weeds
- which organic alternatives are available for specific tasks
- preventative checking of your ornamental shrubs for harmful pests
- analyzing soil samples for repeatedly difficult areas.
- the best time of year to cut back top heavy roses for spectacular fall blooms.
We are fully insured, hold 4 different sets of Class A licenses, hold memberships to “green” organizations throughout the state, and are certified by the Virginia Society of Landscape Designers. More about our lawn & garden maintenance services . . .
Find out how your yard can be turned into a luxury garden and outdoor room
Christie’s Garden Design & Landscape Maintenance Projects . . .
Don’t Forget to Plant Alliums in the Fall
Alliums are frequently forgotten when planting bulbs like daffodils, tulips and crocus in the mid autumn. Most alliums bloom in late Spring or early summer just like our more familiar friends.
A Little Garden for the City Dweller
Here is a sweet little garden we did in Church Hill. It is reminiscent of the English gardens where 8lowers are planted in the front yard behind picket fences. This garden has a long blooming cycle with roses
The Freeze Date is long gone…
Have fun with Pots! For those of you who want pots that look like Lewis Ginter or Duke Botanical Gardens with 4 or 5 different plant types, leaf texture and colors…I applaud you.
Complete Make Over in Golden, Colorado
Complete front yard make over in Golden Colorado. A family affair!
Creating a Berm
I use berms on flat landscapes where there is a need to create interest.
Planting Perennials
As we approach spring. I bet you are itching to get holes in your garden filled.
Walkway to Garbage Cans
If you can keep garbage cans and HVAC equipment out of sight from the garden space- that is good!
Planting ‘steps’ on a Hill
Sit on a Stone wall.. Look at the View.. Smell the Flowers
Down in Deltaville
Sit on a Stone wall.. Look at the View.. Smell the Flowers
Feature of the Month: May
Somewhere on Hanover Avenue . . . Another great space Over the Rainbow (Terrace)
Instead of pillars . . .
Try something a little more dramatic I love driving through neighborhoods and seeing how people mark their entrances or driveways that lead to their houses.
The Wisteria Vine
One of my favorite spring treats is to see the graceful draping of the purple, blue and white wisteria blooms along fences, arbors, corners of houses and even hanging from other trees.