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 a soft warm red light. It’s Rudolph! I hollered, now…
Category Outdoor Living
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.” That was the case with this project. As I drove…
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… whatever. Some have even considered materials and colors and finishes. No matter the excitement,…
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 landscape designer?” way back in 2010. And they’re all awesome and if you want…
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 path and does things a little bit differently. Literally every designer. Give…
What is it like to be a landscape designer?
This week I did something terrifying and lived to tell about it: I spoke to several marauding groups of middle school kids. The fine folks at Marsteller Middle School in Bristow asked me to come be a part of their…