Abelia
Abelia is just one example of my ongoing love affair with “old fashioned” plants. We provide landscape design and landscape installation for a lot of historic properties, especially old farms, so I like to use the plants you’d expect to…
I built this! My Brickwood Ovens Mattone Barile Grande review
For years, I’d been talking about building a pizza oven in my backyard. At one point I found plans online for how to build a dome-shaped oven the old-fashioned way, a brick at a time, and that was my plan.…
Can I plant a tree where I had a tree stump ground out?
Especially after damaging storms, I have people asking me if they can plant a new tree right where the old one used to be. “What did they do with the stump?” I’ll ask, and invariably they’ll tell me “we had…
“Why can’t you work in the rain?”
As someone with the double whammy of being a middle child AND a Libra, I’m the ultimate people pleaser. That becomes really tricky this time of year, when everyone wants their landscape project done yesterday and we’re booking several weeks…
Fixing rootbound plants
A couple of years ago, one of my clients asked me to plant a couple of Japanese maples in containers for their pool area. We did, the trees grew well, and everyone was happy. Last year, my client mentioned that…
What we’re working on now
It’s official: spring is coming, and everyone wants cool stuff now. Here are a few current Revolutionary Gardens projects: 1. A flagstone front walk in Herndon, VA I’m super proud of this one. Before: And, after: 2. New pergola and…