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This is the second season planting this cutting garden in Washington, CT. Last season, when I took over the landscaping of this property, I didn’t have a lot of time to plan this garden or procure mature plants. Subsequently, I planted it with a lot of small plants known for cutting. Season one was mostly […]

I have a beautiful woodland behind my house. It’s a couple of acres that runs along the West Aspetuck River in New Milford. We’ve spent a lot of time over the years trying to clean up and improve the space. First, we removed hundreds of fallen Red Pine and brought in a tub grinder to

Here is our newest tool, I’m calling it our powered wheelbarrow. In a quest to always find more efficient ways to maintain our landscapes, we purchased this small articulating loader to help reduce long walks back to the truck or compost pile. The size of this machine is small enough to drive across lawns all

For years, we’ve offered garden maintenance services as a way to help ensure our new landscape installations establish successfully. A long career has taught me that the only gardens that aren’t successful have been the ones where people ignore maintenance altogether, people try to save money by hiring someone who don’t know what they’re doing

After 40 years in the landscape industry, I can say there isn’t a plant that creates more confusion than Hydrangeas. We must get 3-4 Hydrangea questions a year. Pruning Hydrangeas and a lack of flowers is often the cause of many of those questions. It’s hard to answer any Hydrangea related questions before knowing what

Since it was such a dry fall and I think a lot of evergreens, especially broadleaf evergreens, might struggle as we reach spring, I thought I’d write about our portable water system. It has received quite a bit of use the last 4 or more months. We used it throughout the fall, trying to make

I decided to start documenting the names and colors of all the mums, kales and other fall annuals that are typically available for our clients gardens so they can see what is available for the fall garden vs. me showing up with what I like. Below is a list of the mums and kales that

I recently attended the Connecticut Invasive Plant Conference at Uconn. In the afternoon, there was a panel discussion about invasive plant control and a question was posed regarding the control of Japanese Stilt Grass in a large wildflower meadow. The person asking the question felt his garden was doomed due to the invasion of Japanese

For years, we got away with just a small mini skid steer, the Swiss Army knife of landscaping and a full sized tractor loader backhoe to complete our landscape projects. Although we made it work, it wasn’t optimal. We use the mini skid steer for rototilling/removing turf, moving small trees across clients properties and digging

This backyard entertainment space in Washington was completed in the fall of 2023. It’s still filling in and small tweaks are still in the works so I’m looking forward to watching this garden mature. Unfortunately, that might not happen. The property is currently for sale. I wanted to take a moment to talk about this