sustainable landscape design for beautiful outdoor rooms
For a new residence in Miller Beach, in late 2023 – we installed layers of American beach grass / Marram grass (Ammophila breviligulata), along with snow fencing to act as erosion control, and to help hold the site’s slumping sand, add beauty – and habitat …
Last fall, Green Plumb sketched out some concepts for a garden courtyard restoration in historic townhomes in Chicago’s Gold Coast. Below are some ‘before’ images, as the clients had begun their total gut renovation of the homes interior and exterior areas. These clients sought a …
Reflective of the emotional reason for plant choices in a garden (we were commemorating a November birthday, when this tree’s blooms sparkle) as well as the ecological ones – Witch Hazel supports valuable pollinators (such as late-season bees and moths), we selected the native WITCH …
Our value, IMHO, is the pop, and layering, and drawn-out seasonal color and textural changes we add to front, side and back yards. A sample before and after of a garden pre-scene, in 2023, and then in mid-Spring, 2024.
I woke up this summer to a buzzing text message on my phone – this is the kind of text-based feedback a garden designer / owner hustles every moment for – and works hard to secure with her clients; a Wilmette-based client couldn’t wait to …
In 2023 our company helped a new homeowner building in the Miller section of Gary, to stabilize their dune, which had been cut into, to create their new yard and home. While sand will likely still shift and blow, this project’s use of native dune …
…It would be CAREX, or sedges. There are hundreds of sedges to consider and I often use a mere 4 -5 varieties in our design work. After seeing the everyday, absolute value of Carex in my own garden, I’m ready to dive into using and …
I’ve been thinking about GPGD’s value proposition lately, based on an interaction with a client, and I realized that I often assume a potential client knows, more or less, what sets me apart from other garden-related businesses, when – in fact – many do not. …
We’re DIY-ing, S-L-O-W-L-Y – a new fence for our yard and making new progress with the warmer temps – some (mainly) ‘before’ images – and final image of completed fence showing horizontal cedar slots – creating alluring new privacy for our family. Inspired by the …
If Vinca is your key groundcover throughout your gardens, time for an upgrade! I snapped some shots of a client’s December garden and noticed that even in the gray-covered skies and slight frost of winter, the new garden plantings of Heuchera richardsonii, Carex flacca and …