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Select native plants to encourage songbirds and caterpillars to your gardens.

Selecting native plants for home gardens has become popular over the last decade. It’s a shift in the way we think about residential gardens. Most (not all) gardeners believe ‘traditional English garden plants’ are the only flowers for their home […]

My Top 10 ‘Wild and Crazy’ Client Requests!

As I start into my 23rd year as a landscape designer, I got to thinking about all the wild and crazy ideas clients have requested as part of their landscape projects.

Watering Perennials

What Are Perennials? A perennial is a remarkable feat of nature. It is defined as an outdoor plant that lives for more than two years. Perennials emerge in the spring after the snow has melted and temperatures have warmed. They […]