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I can’t wait to get to this Washington, CT landscape every year to see this spring plant combination.

Here is a landscape design for a Washington, CT period house our clients, two architects, purchased a couple of years ago. The house has been updated and restored so now the homeowner are focusing their attention on improving the outdoor spaces.  This landscape design is for phase 2 work that will be installed this season.

All too often the landscape architect or landscape designer is called upon as the newly constructed house is nearly complete.  Typically, the homeowner calls and says they are nearing completion of their dream home and would like to meet and discuss a landscape design for their property.  I arrive to the meeting and the excited

Designing Eden, LLC is a landscape design and installation company.  Most of the projects we install are from landscape designs we’ve created.  Every season we also have a project or two that come from landscape architects.  The project we have been working on this fall is from another landscape architect.  The first picture below is

We are always pushing the envelop and trying to extend the landscape season as far into fall as possible.  When I designed this Fairfield County landscape, the goal was to create interest throughout the swim season .  This pool is heated and our clients tend to keep it open and swim into early fall. While

I have a new love affair with Taxodium.  I’ve known about the tree for years but it wasn’t until sitting underneath a grove of them near the Intrepid Air and Space Museum that I became reaquainted with this special plant.  Ever since that day this summer, I can’t get enough of the plant.  Just this

At a time when most plants and landscapes are slowing down, asters start to shine in the fall landscape.  There are so many asters available to choose from with all different shapes and sizes.   One of my favorites is Aster ‘Purple Dome’.  Growing about 15″ tall, this New England native is a reliable fall

When we designed and built our house years ago we didn’t really give woodpeckers much thought.  Why would we? We live on 10 acres and they had plenty of places to peck in the woods surrounding the house.  Fast forward 8 years, woodpeckers have become a real nuisance.  Over the years, woodpeckers have done plenty