Leave the leaves is a popular buzz phrase these days, meant to help wildlife and ecosystem services. Many critters, including turtles, toads, birds, mammals, pollinators, moths, butterflies, and […]

  A common request we get as part of a landscape design is screening. People don’t want to look at their HVAC units, electric meters, or their neighbors’ trampoline. Screening […]

  As we start to think about winter, it’s a great time to consider landscape upgrades and changes for the upcoming spring.  While we are dreaming of plants and browsing […]

Plants grow in communities based on soils, exposure, climate and rarely stand alone. Yet, humans have the odd habit or aesthetic style of making shrubs green islands in a sea […]

Who doesn’t love a field of flowers? Especially native forbs and grasses, where butterflies, moths, pollinators, birds and other beneficial insects eat and shelter. I find the infinite blooms and […]

Gardening for wildlife has never been more important! With as much as 52% of the world’s population of vertebrate species on decline, habitat loss is one of the greatest threats […]

We are surrounded by many landscapes, but are they living? A house and garage expansion made way for this major site renovation, which includes a large edible garden with multiple […]

We have discussed creating native areas, non-native invasive plants, and native naturalizers but why do native plants play such a key role in our landscapes and beyond? Perhaps the biggest […]