This front walk is mortared because the slope of the land creates heavy erosion during a rain. Any dry lay walkway would wash away.
We lay a cement pad, then carefully measured out and lay a brick border. We matched […]
Martha Stewart magazines are great in showing you stunning perennial gardens. Christie’s create those magazine cover gardens too. What Martha doesn’t tell you is what the quintessential perennial garden looks right after it goes in and what it will need until it is “magazine worthy.”
Here is the reality check.
I thought that this month I would share with you the variety of features that we have created in our gardens. Ready?
Cottage Garden in Manakin –Sabot
This site surrounds a small building used to store tractors and tools. But with this sweet little garden, you are fooled into thinking […]
Remember the clearing of woods article in March? Well, this homeowner told me to keep going with the most functional part of her outside space. So we designed and executed the plan for the driveway and outside terrace and garden.
How did we do it? […]
This week we performed one of my favorite tasks of clearing the woods along a lovely pond in Goochland County. Clearing woods artistically is a matter of having an educated labor force who knows what is valuable. A random American holly, dogwood, forsythia or wild blueberry bush is left alone. We take out […]