Virginia may not be that far south, but our summers do get crazy hot. It’s especially challenging for our clients building patios or pool …
Outdoor Living
2019’s Holiday Poem
‘Twas mere days before Christmas, but we hadn’t slowed down We were digging and building, criss-crossing the town. Not just us, oh no …
Hidden landscape gems in Culpeper
There’s a lot to love about Culpeper. Our downtown has terrific shops and restaurants and a great little museum. Speaking of the museum, …
Don’t make these 3 hardscape mistakes
Some hardscape mistakes are minor. The summer picnic equivalent might be putting too little salt in your potato salad. Others are major. …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …