Spring Visit To A Kent Landscape
November 19, 2017
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I stopped in this spring to a landscape we did in Kent a couple years earlier. Boy, I’m glad I did. I couldn’t have chosen a better day. Even though the landscape was installed year’s earlier and I stop in on a somewhat regular basis when I’m driving by, I never saw the landscape at ...
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Aster ‘Purple Dome’ Alternatives
November 10, 2017
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I’ve long used Asters in our landscape designs to extend the garden season into fall. One of the most popular Asters has to be Aster ‘Purple Dome’. It’s also a plant that continues to frustrate me. This a the common growth habit of Aster ‘Purple Dome’. Even with all those flower buds, it’s hard to ...
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Native Plants
August 22, 2017
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I’ll admit that I’m not a plant guru. I am a self proclaimed plant-a-holic. I’m always looking for new and under used plants that haven’t made it to the popular list. As a designer, I look at plants based on shape, texture, flower color, when they flower and for how long. With most plants, I ...
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Favorite Native Plants
April 28, 2017
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We are designing a landscape in Washington that has a lot of native plants. It made me start to think of the plants, native to the Northeast, that we rely on for their ability to withstand drought and ease of care. Below is a list of some of our must haves. Phlox stolonifera Phlox stolonifera ...
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Native Landscape Design for a Washington, CT Property.
March 30, 2015
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Here is a landscape design for one of the projects we will be working on this summer in Washington, CT. The site is waterfront so the landscape design consists predominately of native plants. A rain garden is also planned to slow any runoff before it reaches the lake.
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A Landscape Design for a Native Landscape in Kent, CT
December 19, 2013
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We recently completed a landscape design for a house in Kent, CT. The homeowners goal for this landscape was to blend this newly constructed house with the natural surroundings of the property. The landscape design combined low groundcovers, perennials, flowering shrubs and evergreens that are all low maintenance plants that are native to the east ...
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