Month: December 2019

Backyard of the Week: Woodland Garden With Scandinavian Roots

A Boston landscape designer found on Houzz weaves in beautiful textures and layers of green to create an elegant space. This ingenious concept and design is cued by the lines and colors of the site’s residence.

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Annie ThorntonAnnie Thornton, 4 days ago
Houzz Editorial Staff

How to Design for Clients Who Want Sustainable Landscapes

Landscape professionals suggest ways to make gardens more ecological, and things homeowners can do to help. With the simple guidelines proposed, amazingly beautiful gardens and landscapes take shape, even utilizing organic growth and native plants!

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Lauren Dunec HoangLauren Dunec Hoang, 7 days ago
Houzz Contributor. Landscape designer, a former garden editor for Sunset Magazine and in-house designer for Sunset’s Editorial Test Garden. Her garden designs have been featured in the Sunset Western Garden Book of Landscaping, Sunset Western Garden Book of Easy-Care Plantings (cover), Inhabitat, and POPSUGAR.

 

 

 

The Promise and Beauty of a Late Autumn Garden

Read a landscape designer’s reflections on plants, wildlife, fatherhood and learning to let go at the end of the season.

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Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin VogtNovember 27, 2019

Houzz Contributor. I’m a big advocate for bringing the tallgrass prairie into our urban lives — only 1% remains, making it more threatened than the Amazon rainforest yet also as effective at sequestering CO2. I own Monarch Gardens LLC, a prairie garden design firm based in Nebraska and working with clients across the Midwest. I also speak nationally on native plants, sustainable design, and landscape ethics while hosting online classes. I’m the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future. In the coming years we want to restore a 40+ acre prairie and host an artist residency program.