sustainable landscape design for beautiful outdoor rooms
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 …
Our company’s owners live in a sweet residential setting, with nearby pocket parks and some mature street trees. However, this in-town neighborhood was in need of greater investment of street trees, and both Julia and Daniel have been active community tree-planting advocates for our neighborhood. …
With input from this client, and studying some straightforward and elegant design styles from others, this client agreed to take the leap and switch out decades-old baby-breath spirea shrubs for a late-summer display of Little Limelight Hydrangeas, fronted with Buxus ‘Chicagoland Green’. Our company also …
Green Plumb designed some curved patio zones, for a typical Chicago bungalow backyard setting, where straight and narrow lines dominate this urban neighborhood. These circular spheres of bluestone with brick edging will soon have the fragrance, texture and color of lush plantings surrounding and enhancing …
I’ve been musing and working on fences and screens this winter, since my family and I are renovating our worn out backyard fence this year, installing new cedar fencing. Our backyard boundaries are small so we need some slim and narrow options; we’d like to …
The first image of Aralia, taken in July while at a garden buying trip to Twixwood Nursery in Berrien Springs, MI, reminded me of this beauty for shady gardens. Aralia is a plant to use in 2022 – to brighten a darker zone in your …
Necessary plants for a changing climate. Some snaps of the rain gardens our company built for an area in the south suburbs of Chicago that had underinvested in its infrastructure and remains vulnerable to future heavy downpours. While rain gardens won’t absorb all of the …
