Monthly Archives: December 2010

Designing Your Landscape : Hard Materials

Choosing your Materials Select a Family of Hard Materials from the Beginning. It is best to choose the family of things you will be using together in the landscape for your hard materials ‘palette’ before you try to think about your built projects in detail since, in the end, these early choices will affect the [...]

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Wreathing the Beds

Greens After Christmas A second harvest purpose for the branches of Christmas trees and other holiday greens is to use them as decorative wreathing for your otherwise somewhat bare perennial beds. …… One might choose to lay evergreen branches on some beds just to look wonderful through the winter, but these branches can also do [...]

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