Designing Eden's Landscape Design and Installation Blog

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 type landscape. The guy felt his garden was doomed due to the invasion of Japanese Stilt

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 work. Although we made it work, it wasn’t optimal. We use the mini skid steer for rototilling, moving small trees across clients properties and digging holes

The open area at the base of the seating wall was originally left open for a small BBQ and thyme was chosen as a green carpet to walk on. The owners have a large, beautiful covered veranda. Most of the outdoor living and cooking takes place up there but the owners wanted a quaint seating

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

We’ve been in the landscape industry for a while. Over that time, we’ve definitely created some confusion with the services we offer. It is true that we offer only three main services; landscape design services, landscape installations and garden maintenance/detailing/garden care. Where these service offerings cause some confusion is that we have never offered landscape

Last week, we swapped out the fall decorations at one of the properties we care for in Kent and installed the winter decorations. We typically fight the weather on this last swap out. Once the fall containers are past their prime, we pull the plants and remove quite a bit of the potting soil and

Above is a before picture of Stonegate, an Eric Rossiter house in Washington. We were hired to upgrade the tired landscape. The first thing we did was free the granite stone chimney and siding from English Ivy. We then transplanted and/or removed all of the existing boxwood that were haphazardly planted without a consideration to