Occasionally, some of our Connecticut landscape clients want us to install a shade garden. There are so many worthy native plants for natualizing a shade garden but one of my favorite plants for early season interest is Virginia Bluebells. For early spring, it’s hard to beat these blue flowering plants that will naturalize the forest […]
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It seems like everyone is in the nursery business these days. Every parking lot in Fairfield and Litchfield County seems to have plants for sale. Some of these plants are worth buying, others, honestly is just a waste of money. I saw these trees for sale in a parking lot last week. Does anything look
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Came across these metal panels by Parasoleil the other day when looking through the mail. I can see myself utilizing these in a future landscape design as maybe a focal point, screen or maybe even covering an arbor for shade.
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As a landscape designer, we design a lot of landscapes over the colder, winter months. A lot of our clients, or at least the prepared ones, come to us in the fall or winter for their future landscape. This gives us an opportunity to create a design through the slower winter months and have the
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Do it once, do it right! It seems logical, doesn’t it? We have a landscape client who bought a beautiful house in Middlebury after years of living in Southbury. Originally, we designed and installed a landscape that included a back yard retreat behind their Southbury home that they really loved. We maintained the landscape for
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a huge fan of ornamental grasses. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use them in a landscape design or actually plant them in a landscape, I would. Being a plant-a-holic and someone who has a real problem throwing a plant out, I actually have 1 ornamental grass,
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Perennials in a New Milford Landscape For a lot of our clients in Fairfield and Litchfield County, our fall garden maintenance visits involve a lot of cutting back of perennials and other herbaceous plants. There is no specific reason why we cut back perennials at this time of the year besides our clients expect the
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All too often, landscapers and homeowners rely on hedge trimmers to maintain plant size and height. The problem with this approach is a very dense, unnatural looking shrub where all the foliage is only at the outer most edges of the plant. A plant that is so dense is a perfect environment for diseases and
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