You are building a house but not ready to invest in landscape. Here is what you should do
My best friend was building her dream house and didn’t have the funds or the bandwidth to deal with the landscape. She asked me for
Author: jessicamattes
What is an experiential landscape?
Landscape design and aesthetics should work to enhance a particular experience. To achieve this, I focus on two aspects of landscape: sensory engagement and eventfulness.
Building the Lake House Landscape
To know long, slow days lakeside, is to know deep peace. Even the boisterous laughter and splashing of friends is absorbed out into the quiet
Plant communities create style, emotion and story in landscapes
Plantings play a vital role in creating style and feeling in the landscape. Given the same hardscape and architecture, you can create many different moods
Good planting practices protect for decades
The recent windstorm blew down this 2′ diameter maple that was probably planted only 10-15 years before. This tree is on my jogging route and
To Live Well, Design for Events, Big and Small
“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all” Some ideas stay with you. This one, expressed by