This was a great Alexandria landscape design project. Sometimes you roll up to a new potential client's home and you see something that …
One simple question that will make your landscape project 1000x better
Over the years I've had hundreds of clients come my way, asking for a patio or a kitchen or a retaining wall or new plantings or... …
When should you NOT hire a landscape designer?
There are no shortage of posts out there telling you when you should hire a landscape designer. Heck, I wrote one, “Do I really need a …
Guest Post! What it’s like for Ben Bowen of Ross NW Watergardens to be a landscape designer
Last week I wrote my post "What is it like to be a landscape designer?" and it occurred to me that every designer has come via a different …
Creating a book-themed reading garden
I was a voracious reader as a child. It didn't matter what you put in front of me, if it had letters imprinted upon it I would read it. …
It must be fall ‘cuz people are griping about leaf blowers
Ah, autumn. Crisp, cool nights, apple cider donuts at the farmers markets, the crunch of leaves underfoot… and the infernal, deafening, …
Case Study: Virginia Landscape Design with Native Plants
Several months ago I got a call to do a Bristow landscape design project (for those not in the know, Bristow is a little town in Prince …
Cook outside AND stay warm with a wood fired pizza oven!
Pizza is good. Pizza done on the grill is better. The absolute best pizza you could hope to have is made in a wood-fired pizza oven. We all …
Do landscape professionals hate native plants?
One of the benefits of being quite possibly The Most Approachable Guy in the World is I get into a lot of conversations. When these …