This past January my family decided to bond on a week long “inclusive- o” package to Cancun, Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula.
Before hitting the resort and getting totally spoiled, we trod off the beaten path by staying a few […]
If you walk by one of our gardens this time of year and have a swaft of fragrance over take you, chances are it is the Daphne odora. My neighbors have been known to hike into my woods sniffing for the diminutive flower with variegated leaves. Once they do, they are hooked and […]
It was such a treat to start from scratch with the garden renovation of this Sears Catalogue home. Not only that, we worked with a long time client who had moved from another home we had landscaped. We had our own mutual admiration […]
Our first concern in analyzing landscape projects is to consider drainage problems that may exist for the house foundation, plantings, and traffic areas.
These new homeowners wanted to take no risks in stopping any drainage issues that had contributed to their moldy basement from years of neglect.
Our solutions were to:
When this renowned artist asked me to landscape his studio on Cary Street. When I learned that his space had no irrigation or light available, I immediately thought of using boulders.
There is no better way than […]