Archive for May 2009

Spring is still for planting.

Posted on May 29, 2009, 3:46 pm, by Landscape Designer, under Design, Installation, Plants.

I’ve been working in the landscaping field for over fifteen years and in that time I have received a lot of useful advice from experienced plantsmen. As I worked my way up the ranks from a waterer and weeder, installation laborer, to a landscape designer, the most memorable advice I ever heard was when Brent, of Brent [...]

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The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap!

Posted on May 21, 2009, 5:51 am, by Landscape Designer, under Installation, Plants.

Perennials are not like trees and shrubs. When you buy a tree you judge their branching structure and outward vigor because when you buy a tree you are paying for the time and effort that was put into growing it for several years. That’s why the price for woody plants increases exponentially with their size. [...]

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