If I asked you to tell me about crape myrtles, what would you say? My guess is the first thing you’d mention is the fact that the flowers …
Virginia plants
Winter plant damage: watch for these 3 problems
If you're like a lot of homeowners, you've been looking at your landscape plants with a little bit of worry lately. The cold has been …
Protecting your landscape from winter storm damage
Winter storm Jonas (why are we naming them again?) is barreling towards us, and that's caused a number of friends to send me panicked texts …
Plants Map: because paper gets wet and we forget stuff
I'm always on the lookout for new tech tools, especially ones that could make life easier for my clients. A few months ago I stumbled across …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Your fall landscape is boring if you don’t know about these 8 plants
The great thing about this time of year is that the days are cooler (well mostly, it's supposed to hit 87 today), the humidity drops, and we …