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Tag: Pollinator Gardens
The best designs work today and tomorrow. If you want to plant sustainably, focus on native growth or incorporate resilient design principles, look no further.
4 Eco-Friendly Additions to Make to Your Landscape Design
Is your landscape design environmentally friendly? That’s a complicated question, and environmentally conscious landscape planning is an ever-evolving study. But there are a few choices you can make right now that will have a positive impact. As a landscape architect, it’s a given that I love and celebrate the natural world and want to do […]
Butterfly Gardening: Here’s How to Attract Winged-Wonders to Your Landscape
Of all the creatures that visit gardens, butterflies are perhaps the most exotic and magical. On warm summer days they sail from one flower to another in search of nectar. In sunlight, the shimmering wings of the red-spotted purple appear iridescent. And, while the large, brightly colored swallowtails, monarchs and painted ladies tend to grab […]
Growing a Sustainable Landscape
Trends come and go. And like the ever-changing styles of cars and clothes, ideas about what makes for great garden design and good plants have drastically changed over the past few decades. What was fashionable 25 to 30 years ago often looks dated and in need of renovation. Plant breeders have created better trees and […]
Designing a Sustainable Slope
Most home landscapes in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are on relatively flat surfaces. In this part of the Midwest, we typically don’t see steep rolling hills, but occasionally we come across projects that have slopes. It could be a drainage ditch with sloping sides. A house may be built on a lot that pitches […]