Here’s an update on a Ridgefield garden we installed about 10 years ago. One of the things we love about doing landscape design is watching the landscape fill in completely over the years. After we do an installation like the garden below, we are just as invested in it as the home owner. This particular […]
After 30 years in the landscape business, I decided to enter my first landscape design awards competition. The CT Green Industry Alliance released their categories for 2018 and there was a small garden category. It tempted me to enter my favorite small garden. There is so much to love about this property that we designed,
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At Designing Eden llc, the landscapes we design and install tend to have a lot of seasonal interest. We accomplish this by using a mixture of various flowering trees, shrubs, perennials and groundcovers. For most of our clients, that approach is more than sufficient in terms of providing enough seasonal color in their landscape or
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This week will be my 5th computer aided design class. As you can see from my original post about my experience with getting back into CAD for landscape design, I have made huge progress. This landscape design is not a homework assignment but an actual landscape design project for Designing Eden LLC. Take a look.
20 years after graduating with a degree in Landscape Architecture, I’ve decided to go back to school. I’m dating myself by saying that I took one of the first computer aided design classes my college offered. It was such a disaster. Hard drives were crashing daily due to the memory needed for the software to
This is an update, from a previous blog post, of a landscape design and installation project Designing Eden installed in the fall of 2010, in Ridgefield, CT. Watching and maintaining this garden’s growth through its first full growing season has been a real joy. Despite the wettest year in Connecticut history, I would consider this
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Last fall we landscaped this house in Ridgefield, CT. After 20 plus years in business, this has been one of my favorite projects to date for many different reasons. First, the homeowners were really excited about having a nice garden. Second, the house as well as the landscape was getting a facelift so we were
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