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 off all the outside lights until after…
I grew up in New England. We weren’t nuts like people from Minnesota (seriously, I’ve seen Minnesotans wearing shorts on days that would freeze a polar bear’s tongue to the hull of a passing ship) but we didn’t let a little…
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 around the new tagline and mission statement…
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 a secret? That’s just a foo-foo way…
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 designers are trying to convince us to…
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 them for Hanukkah and Yule, too) is…