Outdoors rooms are wonderful for extending your living space. They often function as a dining area and living room. The ambiance of surrounding plants, hummingbirds and cool breezes is refreshing and peaceful at least 3 seasons out of the year. In the winter, you can cuddle around a fire pit as long as you protect […]

This is an interesting urban landscape design I found in Aspen, Colorado. It is a narrow deep meandering “creek” that wraps itself on both sides of the downtown mall. There is no sound, but it has an amazing effect when you see it as you window shop or sit listening to the violinist street musician. […]

My perennials have never been as pretty. The cool and wet spring allowed them to stand tall and bloom in a huge song of color.

As July hits I walk up to all my gardens in trepidation that the blistering heat and thunderstorms has filled them with mildew, burned leaves and tromped stems.

I think I have […]

This past month we have had 2 small gardens in Church Hill that we were lucky enough to create from the dirt up.

This first garden on 32nd Street begged for a cozy front with some garden accents and style. After looking through my favorite Smith and Hawkins garden accent book, we decided on this funky […]

We have had so many beautiful projects this May and June. It’s hard to decide which one to present in this blog.

Here is our selection with a few short descriptions.

A small Church Hill garden with a picket fence, bench, 2 window boxes, stepping stones and perennials! It gives the whole neighborhood a lift!

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