When trees and shrubs are the primary players, you get a robust, low-maintenance landscape.Have you ever wanted to create or rehab a garden and thought, "Where the heck do I start?" We know exactly how you feel. After buying a historical property over30 years ago, we were faced with a whole-house renovation at the same time we were planning to rehab the landscape outside. To make things easier (and affordable), we focused our attention first on the handful of existing trees, deciding which would goand basing the next design steps on the ones that remained. Using thosetrees as inspiration, we added layers of more woody plants with textural and color contrasts and then installed a hardscape with some heft to slowly create a landscape that required less maintenance and that looked great in all four seasons.
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