Designing Eden's Landscape Design and Installation Blog
Designing Eden LLC has been providing landscape design, installation and garden maintenance services in Fairfield and Litchfield County for over 30 years. Richard, the owner, holds degrees in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. Check out our landscape design tips and information from the only nationally certified landscape designer in Litchfield County!
The Move to Fine Garden Maintenance
After 40 plus years in the landscape industry, the spring always brings a heightened sense of excitement and anxiety. We are heading into our third full year with a focus towards fine garden maintenance. Although we’ve always offered fine garden maintenance services, the service acted as a filler between our landscape design and installation projects.
Volunteer Plants in the Garden
Sometimes the power of nature is amazing to witness. At the same time, sometimes nature makes you scratch your head. What’s better than when a good plant decides to make an appearance into your garden. The white and blue plants below are volunteers in my garden, They are the Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica, and
Litchfield County Best Landscaper and Landscape Designer
Litchfield Magazines Readers Choice Awards were just released. For the second time since the awards were started, we did not make the list. That’s unfortunate. Designing Eden llc has made the Best of Litchfield County list multiple times for the category of Best Landscape Company. Last year, the magazine added a new category, the Best
Landscapers Road Map for a Secure Future.
During the winter months, I visit Lawnsite, a landscape website for the trade. It’s a forum where landscapers from all over North America participate. Sometimes there are some interesting discussions. On a recent visit to the site, I saw multiple posts on different topics where the underlying theme was people feeling stuck because of a
Buying a Vehicle, Is There Anything Worse?
I have been on a mission over the last couple of months to find a small SUV for a new garden maintenance crew that will be starting next year. I didn’t anticipate the battle ahead of me. This post is about what I learned along the way. Maybe, just maybe, I will save someone from
Native Garden Litchfield
This native garden in Litchfield is looking good in late summer but it’s not the meadow but what lurks directly behind it, that this post is about. It’s hard to see but behind this native garden is an area that’s heavily maintained with string trimmers for most of the garden season. The reason? Knotweed! The
Fine Garden Maintenance Services
You might be asking what fine garden maintenance services are. Over the years, I’ve heard way too many people say that they renovated their gardens a certain amount of years ago and obviously the company we hired didn’t know what they were doing because our yard is a jungle. That might be true. There are
End of Season Deadheading Equals Free Plants.
As the landscape transitions from summer to fall, it’s a good time to accomplish some tasks including starting to cut back and clean up some perennials. It’s also never too early to start thinking about next season. One of the garden maintenance tasks I like to do is to deadhead self-seeding perennials and spread them
Fall Container Ideas
As summer comes winds down, it will soon be time to start thinking about the fall garden. After the first frost, we will pull out our summer annuals and soon after that, we will start to plant our fall annuals. Some of those plants will be planted in containers so as I start planning for
A Washington, CT Cutting Garden
This is the second season planting this cutting garden in Washington, CT. Last season, when I took over the landscaping of this property, I didn’t have a lot of time to plan this garden or procure mature plants. Subsequently, I planted it with a lot of small plants known for cutting. Season one was mostly
Planting a CT Native Woodland
I have a beautiful woodland behind my house. It’s a couple of acres that runs along the West Aspetuck River in New Milford. We’ve spent a lot of time over the years trying to clean up and improve the space. First, we removed hundreds of fallen Red Pine and brought in a tub grinder to
Our Powered Wheelbarrow for Large Landscapes
Here is our newest tool, I’m calling it our powered wheelbarrow. In a quest to always find more efficient ways to maintain our landscapes, we purchased this small articulating loader to help reduce long walks back to the truck or compost pile. The size of this machine is small enough to drive across lawns all