More and more in our busy technologically dominated age we are becoming disconnected from nature! It’s hard to notice or understand changes in our environment if we are not mindfully present and aware of our natural surroundings. As summer becomes fall, the nights get cooler, the leaves change color, it gets dark earlier and light latter and our bodies and …

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 …

Designing, developing and constructing this landscape has truly been a labor of love! We are so fortunate in Westchester to have such naturally beautiful settings to work with! In this case we had a wide open rear yard which served as a blank canvas for our artistic composition to unfold. Situated on a tidal estuary facing southeast, we found a …

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 …

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 …