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A Landscape in Middlebury, CT. Do It Once, Do It Right!

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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Some Winter Interest in a New Milford Landscape

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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Hollies Too Big? Connecticut Landscape Experiment

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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