August 31, 2016

The Garden of Plenty: Food for Life, Health and Happiness

We will create a garden for all seasons featuring edible fruits, vegetables and aromatic herbs. In the fall you will enjoy flowering perennials and annuals as well as an assortment of fragrant herbs. For architectural interest, we will place one pink dogwood and three flowering Hawthorn, which will attract a wild variety of birds. Your layered garden will include tall 

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August 31, 2016

Pool Scape Design

The gorgeous pool scape defines the backyard entertainment space. Dominated by ornamental grasses and summer blooming perennials blowing in the wind, this landscape comes to life from spring to fall. Siting the pool house was key to the successful integration of the architectural hardscape with the pool and natural surroundings.    

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August 31, 2016

Bringing Nature Home Where the Coyotes Run A Little Piece of Heaven

We propose to dramatically and dynamically improve and enhance your existing landscape. The goal and projected as well as desired outcome for your finished landscape planting will be to provide strategic screening, while establishing habitat and shelter for greater variety and diversity of species (i.e. song birds, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, etc.). All plants were selected for their hardiness, light preference, 

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August 24, 2016

Landscape Privacy Screening Using Flowering Native Plants

Instead of the same old straight line of evergreens (usually arborvitae), which is so overdone and boring, why not use a more interesting variety of native shrubs and trees? Whether you are here in White Plains or Croton-on-the Hudson, you can make your landscape so much more attractive and highly eco-functional. I recently planted a hedge of clethra which is 

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August 17, 2016

Ecological Landscape Management Practices or BMP’s for Drainage and Water Management Strategies in Chappaqua, New York

We come across water management issues daily in our work as landscape designers and design/build contractors. It seems there is either too much water or too little. Aside from our 20 point property checklist, we continuously look for signs and indicators of flow paths, wet areas or stress in the landscape environment. Sometimes these are simple and easy to improve. 

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