Designing Eden's Landscape Design and Installation Blog

After 40 years in the landscape industry, I can say there isn’t a plant that creates more confusion than Hydrangeas. We must get 3-4 Hydrangea questions a year. Pruning Hydrangeas and a lack of flowers is often the cause of many of those questions. It’s hard to answer any Hydrangea related questions before knowing what

Since it was such a dry fall and I think a lot of evergreens, especially broadleaf evergreens, might struggle as we reach spring, I thought I’d write about our portable water system. It has received quite a bit of use the last 4 or more months. We used it throughout the fall, trying to make

I decided to start documenting the names and colors of all the mums, kales and other fall annuals that are typically available for our clients gardens so they can see what is available for the fall garden vs. me showing up with what I like. Below is a list of the mums and kales that

I recently attended the Connecticut Invasive Plant Conference at Uconn. In the afternoon, there was a panel discussion about invasive plant control and a question was posed regarding the control of Japanese Stilt Grass in a large wildflower meadow. The person asking the question felt his garden was doomed due to the invasion of Japanese

For years, we got away with just a small mini skid steer, the Swiss Army knife of landscaping and a full sized tractor loader backhoe to complete our landscape projects. Although we made it work, it wasn’t optimal. We use the mini skid steer for rototilling/removing turf, moving small trees across clients properties and digging

This backyard entertainment space in Washington was completed in the fall of 2023. It’s still filling in and small tweaks are still in the works so I’m looking forward to watching this garden mature. Unfortunately, that might not happen. The property is currently for sale. I wanted to take a moment to talk about this

Over the years, we have used a combination of trees, shrubs and perennials to create many new gardens. When we are creating gardens that has a large perennial component, we often use perennial liners to stretch our clients budget. The difference in price between the typical perennial liner and a full sized, one gallon perennial

I follow a Facebook page called Pizzaholics. It’s all about pizza. Every once in a while someone posts a picture of their home pizza oven. This usually starts a rant from people who denounce personal pizza ovens. Most of the time people say they’d rather buy a $15 pizza then make a $100 pizza. What

When designing pool gardens, it’s important that the landscape looks good from June to September…..the swim season. Although there are plenty of perennials that flower during the summer season, most perennials will only flower for a couple weeks. To create a really colorful garden that will continue to flower throughout the swim season, there isn’t

I’m posting some landscape concepts that have been developed for a project that we are currently working on. Our first meeting with the home owner developed the goals and design intent needed to start the design process. Once the first concept was developed and presented to the owners, it brought about more discussions and possibilities

Are you tired of maintaining your lawn and paying the associated costs with maintaining a lush carpet of green? There is another option. You can shrink the lawn and transform it into a vibrant wildflower meadow? We did a meadow in Kent a while back that has become pretty famous. Pictures of the meadow we

Our last step to putting a construction project back together is to repair the lawn areas damaged from all the construction equipment, material storage and foot traffic throughout the project. There are plenty of ways to repair a lawn after construction. Most companies will repair the damage by spreading some topsoil, seed and hay and