New Milford landscape

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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Winter Plant Damage in a New Milford Landscape

With the amount of snow we’ve had this past winter, Connecticut landscapes have really taken a beating.  In the last 3 weeks I’ve seen more damage from this winter than I have in the previous 10 winters combined.  Here is a picture of a beautiful Japanese Cutleaf Maple not only with a major crack in

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Native Landscape Planting New Milford, CT. A low maintenance, deer resistant garden.

When we bought the property, which would eventually become our home and the base for Designing Eden, we had quite a bit of woods on the 10 acres.  The woods were composed of both hardwoods and Red Pines.  Within a couple of years of purchasing the property, the Red Pine began to fall.  Over the

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