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Recycling Christmas Greens

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2012/12/11

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 [...]

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Shaping Your Landscape

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2012/10/07

Seeing the Shapes ………………………………………………………………R.S. A series of purposefully taken photographs can provide elevational views of your landscape and buildings for use as ‘working images’ to draw on or trace over. By enlarging such photos and sketching on them, you can begin to see how your ideas will look as you approach them in the 3 [...]

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Open Gardens in Marblehead 8/13/2011

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2011/08/06

Ellen Cool’s Garden at 19 Circle Street and two other Very Special Marblehead Gardens will be participating in the Open Days Program to Benefit The Garden Conservancy and The Marblehead Conservancy At any of the addresses, you just pay $5.00 to go in. We hope that you will bring your questions, enjoy the landscapes and [...]

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Designing Your Landscape : Hard Materials

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/12/28

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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About Ellen Cool and Your Reasoned Landscape

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/05/27

ELLEN COOL Designer, PhD Biology / Ethology, Author @ AReasonedLandscape.com STONE GARDEN DESIGNS INC. Landscape Composition, Stonework. Garden Design, Creation, Restoration. With 30 years of Immersion in the Work of the Land. stonegardendesigns@comcast.net Garden Visits by Appointment 781 856 5600 19 Circle Street, Marblehead, Mass 01945 “As time went by I realised that the particular place I [...]

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