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Irrigation Is More Than Just Getting Everything Wet Months before this project had gotten underway I asked irrigation contractor Vinny Catoggio to meet with me on the site to review the landscape plan.  This meeting is the first critical step in planning an automatic sprinkler system that is customized to the planting plan as well [...]

This is Hydrangea ‘Endless Summer’ and perhaps many of you are already  familiar with it.  When it first came out in production ‘E.S.’ had limited availability, and this scarcity probably just added to the hype.  Production has caught up with demand and most garden centers now carry it. So What Makes Hydrangea ‘Endless Summer’ So [...]

Repeat Landscape Elements To Unify The Design Now that the mason has completed the stone steps adjacent to the pool, landscape contractor Dave Kennedy could begin setting the balance of landscape boulders.  Dave is conscious of the aesthetics and strives to integrate his boulder work with what the pool contractor has done. The additional boulder [...]

Why Replace A Plant? Well, beyond the obvious “because it’s dead”, there are other reasons for plant replacement. In this case the homeowner was disappointed in the way these existing Arborvitae were looking.  She said “they look like an x-ray of the plant”.  Over the years the maintenance contractor had been shearing them to keep [...]