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You can tell right away this homeowner likes “the formal look”.  I even iron my jeans before visiting this client.  (Obama’s not the only one with front and back creases on his Levis.) I was intrigued with what looked like a “floating lantern”, only to discover it was sitting on a brick pier. The original [...]

Overhead Wires Can Sometimes Be An Eyesore Usually when there are overhead wires they are in front of the house along the road.  That’s usually a workable feature in that most passers-by look at the house and generally don’t pick up on the wires. This backyard project, however, had an atypical situation.  The utility poles [...]

Why Can’t I Just Shear It? I call this one of my “go-to” plants.  Manhattan Euonymus is tough, nice looking, fast growing, and cheap (I mean relatively inexpensive).  Yes you could shear it – many people do, but the result will be excessive, dense branching on the sheared ends.  This produces that mass of stems [...]

Leyland Cypress is a hybrid created between Cupressus macrocarpa and Chamaecyparis nootkatensis.    I promise that’s the last technical statement I’ll make. Here’s the skinny on Leyland.  It’s basically a nice looking evergreen.  It’s hardy to Zone 6, which is our zone here in NJ.  Start heading north and its hardiness gets marginal.  Planted in the [...]