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A Successful First Season Landscape in Ridgefield, CT

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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Landscape Installation: Dealing with Poor Soil in Bridgewater, CT Landscape

At Designing Eden we pride ourselves on our soil work prior to planting a new landscape.  Why?  Because 90% of plant problems occur below ground.  It’s my feeling that one of the most important parts of any new landscape is the work we accomplish prior to planting.   That’s why our current landscape project in

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New Landscape for Historic Ridgefield, CT House

Here are pictures of a recent project we completed a couple of weeks ago.  The makeover included a new landscape and paint for a historic house in downtown Ridgefield, CT.  Our project included the removal of existing plants, transplanting some Boxwoods and Hydrangeas, widening the small existing plant beds, removing the lawn and installing new

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