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Edible Landscape
How to Design an Elegant Edible Landscape For decades, residential landscape design has drawn a strict line between form and function. Ornamental gardens with their manicured boxwoods, pristine flowering cherries, and seamless lawns were reserved for the front yard and main outdoor living spaces. Meanwhile, productive agriculture was banished to [...]
From Code to Concept
When planning a new home, commercial property, or outdoor space, landscaping is more than choosing plants and creating a beautiful design. Many cities have landscape codes that determine what can be planted, how much of a property must be landscaped, and where certain features need to go. Understanding these requirements [...]
Landscaping: Where to Start
Have you got ideas for your landscape – but aren’t sure where to start? You need a Landscape Architect. Landscaping is more than putting plants and trees in the ground. Successful landscape design takes thoughtful planning, an understanding of the property, knowledge of plants and water needs, and the ability [...]
In the Heart of Penstemon Country: A Friendly Warning
In the Heart of Penstemon Country: A Journey into Wildflower Obsession Some books are written from a desk. Others are written from the driver’s seat of a dusty pickup parked at the end of a forgotten mountain road. In the Heart of Penstemon Country was written somewhere in between. As [...]
The Freeze Is Coming: The Complete Intermountain Northwest Guide to Sprinkler Winterization
How to prepare your irrigation system for cold weather before a routine fall shutdown becomes an expensive spring repair There is a moment every fall when the irrigation season changes. The grass is growing more slowly. The days are shorter. The nights get colder. The sprinkler system that worked almost [...]
Xeriscape: Less Water, Not Less Landscape
Xeriscape—a largely misunderstood word—was originally coined by Denver Water to describe landscapes where native and adapted plants use minimal amounts of water.It didn’t take long before people heard the word as “zeroscape,” not understanding that Xeric meant very dry conditions with little water, and that “zeroscape” was never a word. [...]
