Euonymus ‘Emerald Gaiety’ and ‘Emerald Gold’ are 2 very common shrubs. In many ways the two are similar in form. You’ll often see both used as a low, mounded shrub either at the front of a garden or as an area groundcover. Euonymus ‘Emerald Gaiety’ has the distinct capability to climb when planted next to a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 23, 2010
Lily of the Valley is one of those ground covers you may not always think to use. Yet it is one of the easiest to grow, can spread like crazy and needs hardly any care. I know, you’re probably thinking “Why am I not using more of this plant?”. In case you’re not familiar with Lily [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Back in June I posted an article that was to start a series on a project by East Coast Landscape. Alan Goodell, one of the company owners, invited me to this special home on a lake. In the first article we saw how visitors were greeted at the entrance to the long winding drive. This exceptionally [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
Perennials and Groundcovers – Garden Designers’ Best Friends Perennials and groundcovers play an important role in landscape design from many perspectives. One of those functions is to act as “fillers” between the young trees and shrubs. This helps early on with plant spacing and the open spaces that might occur. When we carefully arrange the young “woody [...]
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
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