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Make Stone Steps From Fieldstone Boulders
Stone steps come in all styles. Essentially their role is to get you from one level to another. In good landscape design, how stone steps look is as important as how they function. Frankly, that should be the case of every element in a well-designed landscape. When we speak of the function for steps, it’s important to [...]
Continue reading...Where Landscape Meets Lake
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Let’s take another visit to the lake home and landscape project by East Coast Landscape. In the last post we traveled down natural stone steps alongside a well-built and engineered waterfeature. We’re now almost to the shoreline and standing on a wide path covered in woodchips. This path actually travels a roundabout and gradual climb up [...]
Continue reading...Recognize The Potential Of The Site
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Observe and Conceptualize You probably already have a notion as to what you want or need in your landscape. And if you’re a designer you’ve probably interviewed the homeowner to understand their desires. This is important information, but you should not let those wishes (and even requirements) constrain your initial thinking of the site. Keeping the general [...]
Continue reading...Project Completion…Are New Landscapes Ever Complete? – RB Project #6.20
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Landscapes are often a work in progress. No matter how thorough your planning has been, the project is looking for those added tweaks so that…well, it just feels right. Years ago I worked for a design/build company as a crew foreman. This company had its own nursery/garden center. The designer would ask me to gather all [...]
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