Most people who call looking for new gardens and landscaping often mention that creating a low maintenance landscape is important to them. I often explain that there’s no such thing as a low maintenance garden. Gardens always require ongoing maintenance. Earliy in my career, when I was eager to succeed in the landscape industry, I […]
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Below is the perfect example of why we avoid planting Bigleaf Hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) in Litchfield County. As I’m sure you’re aware, Hydrangea varieties are about as diverse as any other plant species. Not all Hydrangeas are created equal. Hydrangeas have the ability to flower on old wood, meaning buds are set on last year’s
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Repetition is an important element to consider when designing a landscape. Every time I consider repetition, I think about a project in Washington. I was brought in to make improvements to a property that the homeowners built two decades earlier. Nothing stood out as I drove up but when I was brought to the backyard,
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After 40 plus years in the landscape industry, the spring always brings a heightened sense of excitement and anxiety. We are heading into our third full year with a focus towards fine garden maintenance. Although we’ve always offered fine garden maintenance services, the service acted as a filler between our landscape design and installation projects.
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Sometimes the power of nature is amazing to witness. At the same time, sometimes nature makes you scratch your head. What’s better than when a good plant decides to make an appearance into your garden. The white and blue plants below are volunteers in my garden, They are the Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica, and
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Litchfield Magazines Readers Choice Awards were just released. For the second time since the awards were started, we did not make the list. That’s unfortunate. Designing Eden llc has made the Best of Litchfield County list multiple times for the category of Best Landscape Company. Last year, the magazine added a new category, the Best
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I have been on a mission over the last couple of months to find a small SUV for a new garden maintenance crew that will be starting next year. I didn’t anticipate the battle ahead of me. This post is about what I learned along the way. Maybe, just maybe, I will save someone from
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This native garden in Litchfield is looking good in late summer but it’s not the meadow but what lurks directly behind it, that this post is about. It’s hard to see but behind this native garden is an area that’s heavily maintained with string trimmers for most of the garden season. The reason? Knotweed! The
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You might be asking what fine garden maintenance services are. Over the years, I’ve heard way too many people say that they renovated their gardens a certain amount of years ago and obviously the company we hired didn’t know what they were doing because our yard is a jungle. That might be true. There are
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