Winter plant damage: watch for these 3 problems
If you’re like a lot of homeowners, you’ve been looking at your landscape plants with a little bit of worry lately. The cold has been brutal. If the Weather Channel ...
Avoid these 3 outdoor kitchen design mistakes!
Outdoor kitchen design is a lot of fun, but it’s also easy to make some pretty serious mistakes along the way. No matter what your outdoor kitchen has to work ...
How to build a segmental retaining wall
I try to avoid walls where possible, but sometimes you just don’t have a choice. Segmental retaining walls can be a great choice because they don’t require a footer all ...
Dave versus the snow plow
Do kids still do chores? I feel like I never see anyone younger than me shoveling in our neighborhood. When I was growing up, the understanding was that part of ...
Protecting your landscape from winter storm damage
Winter storm Jonas (why are we naming them again?) is barreling towards us, and that’s caused a number of friends to send me panicked texts and Facebook messages like “will ...
Case study in progress: Landscape master plans and phased construction at my house
Over the years I’ve slowly (and I mean slowly) been chipping away at my own yard. The problem is that it’s happened in fits and starts, at the rare moments ...
Plants Map: because paper gets wet and we forget stuff
I’m always on the lookout for new tech tools, especially ones that could make life easier for my clients. A few months ago I stumbled across Plants Map, a cloud-based ...
7 landscape and garden blogs you should be reading
I’m currently working on a project to sort, categorize, and tag all the photos on my hard drive. All 24,585 of them. As a result I don’t read as many ...
A holiday poem by me!
‘Twas the holiday season and out in the shed your favorite designer had just bumped his head. I staggered on out and into the night when above me there shone ...
Outdoor Living, Virginia plants
Case study: An Alexandria landscape design all about the dog
This was a great Alexandria landscape design project. Sometimes you roll up to a new potential client’s home and you see something that makes you say, “we’re totally working together.” ...