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Most people who call looking for new gardens and landscaping often mention that creating a low maintenance landscape is important to them. I often explain that there’s no such thing as a low maintenance garden. Gardens always require ongoing maintenance. Earliy in my career, when I was eager to succeed in the landscape industry, I

Below is the perfect example of why we avoid planting Bigleaf Hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) in Litchfield County. As I’m sure you’re aware, Hydrangea varieties are about as diverse as any other plant species. Not all Hydrangeas are created equal. Hydrangeas have the ability to flower on old wood, meaning buds are set on last year’s

Repetition is an important element to consider when designing a landscape. Every time I consider repetition, I think about a project in Washington. I was brought in to make improvements to a property that the homeowners built two decades earlier. Nothing stood out as I drove up but when I was brought to the backyard,

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.

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

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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

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

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