September 7, 2016

How do you Create a Level Backyard? Terracing, Rip, Rap Retaining Walls and More!

We are very often posed with the challenge of creating a level, usable space where there is a slope, depression or uneven grade. There are many creative solutions available to us as designers. The first question is how great a slope or issue is presented. Is this area regulated by wetlands, building codes etc.? Is it steep enough to be 

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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

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 16, 2016

Native Plants are Everywhere you look in Westchester!

Every morning I see the beauty of our natural landscapes. Even at the gym! Lifetime Fitness in West Harrison is a great example of contemporary ecological landscape design incorporating native plants into a landscape composition. The pink flowering dogwood with the flowering black choke cherries is so pretty and attractive not just to us human casual observers but to our 

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April 20, 2016

Designing with Native Plants for Ecological Services – Westchester County NY

When we look at many of our designed and constructed residential landscapes, what do we see? Is there a variety of plants, flowers, colors, heights? Is there a variety of different trees? Are there tall, mature trees providing shade and canopy? Is your landscape dominated by lawn? What condition is the lawn in? Are there layers of perennial beds and 

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