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December 29, 2014 0 Comments

New Year's Eve is coming quickly, and if you're planning on having friends over to watch the ball drop you have two choices. You can spiffy up the landscape, or you can turn

December 18, 2014 0 Comments

Have you noticed the new layout of the website? It's because I'm getting away from project management and installs and really focusing on writing, speaking, and video content. I'm still wrapping my head

December 17, 2014 0 Comments

I'm a wine drinker, and I love a good, crisp Sauvignon Blanc. One of the ways people describe Sauv Blanc is to say it smells like boxwood. Can I let you in on

December 16, 2014 1 Comment

This week I got an email from someone interested in hiring me to do a planting plan. One of the things she said that stood out to me was "some of the other

December 15, 2014 0 Comments

Is that the most click-baity headline ever? Anyhow, the short answer to that burning question: maybe. The problem with old school, incandescent holiday lights (don't send me hate mail for that, people use

August 20, 2014 0 Comments

One of my favorite things to do on this blog is to profile recent projects. It's a fun opportunity to show what's possible, and maybe brag a little. Hey, my clients let me

August 8, 2014 0 Comments

I grew up in a 1950s ranch house in Rhode Island. It's the one in the photo above. You can see that there are two doors on the front of the house: the

August 1, 2014 2 Comments

At 3 am I came back to bed. I love my dog, but I'm not a huge fan of the refusal to do anything on last outs but a frantic need to do

July 12, 2014 0 Comments

One of the goals of this blog was to celebrate great, innovative design, and if it overlaps with landscaping? Even better, which is why I love sharing these garden tools for women! Ergonomic

June 23, 2014 2 Comments

  We see a lot of concrete porches, especially on older homes (1950s-1970s for sure). If I had to guess, that’s about the time the prior owners poured our front porch. The thing