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Bring the Indoors Outside the Home | Realty Today

Blade’s Heather Lashbrook Jones lends a few tips regarding designing for outdoor spaces. Her advice – consider designs that work in all seasons and think through the “room” shape. Read the entire article on Realty Today.

Landscape Design 2016 | New England Home

Nothing beats a seaside view. New England Home (pdf) apparently agrees and has featured yet another of our properties in their Special Focus: Landscape Design 2016 issue. The waterfront residence in Duxbury is busy poolside gatherings and family entertainment. Writer Paula M. Bodah notes the combination of hydrangeas, dogwoods, and arborvitaes allow for full blooms throughout the […]

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Before and After: Enchanting English Garden | Traditional Home

Our Brookline Brownstone property gets the spotlight in this month’s Traditional Home. Walk through the iron gate to a Checkerboard Garden, where patterned pavers lead past a circular flower bed. View the pdf version here.

Winter Preperations - Boston Design Guide

How to Prepare Your Home for Winter | Boston Design Guide

Blade designer, Heather Lashbrook Jones reviewed a few essential tasks every New England homeowner should take when preparing their homes (and gardens) for winter. Tips include cutting perennials, properly tying shrubs and boxwoods, servicing your irrigation systems and more. It’s quick read, but worth the effort if you’re serious about protecting one of your most valuable […]

Backyard Biology: Designing a Garden to be a Kid’s Science Lab | Pith + Vigor

Gardens are not only good for the soul, they can also be (growing) mind. Pith + Vigor blog highlights one of our Newton designs, with an educational perspective.

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An Urban Garden in Massachusetts | Old House Online

Old House Online tells the story of how an avid gardener and a Blade of Grass reworked a streetside urban plot in Brookline to create private “rooms” along with lawns and perennial beds—while honoring the scale of the big old house.

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Before and After: An Awkward Driveway Makeover in Wayland, MA | Martha Stewart

Our very own Jim Douthit reveals his Wayland Farmhouse makeover, with special attention to the driveway and four-season plantings. Special thanks to the author, Rochelle Greayer for this amazing feature on Martha Stewart’s website.

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The Beauty of Landscape Lighting | Boston Design Guide

We share a few tips with Boston Design Guide for making the most of landscape lighting. When done well, landscape lighting can transform your outdoor space, and allow you to enjoy your garden throughout the evening, especially in the months where daylight is short. Check out the quick blog they posted that highlights our work.

Brookline, MA - A checkerboard pattern in the lawn adds a unique interest to the garden.

A Lot from a Little in Brookline | Design New England

Our “urban secret” APLD Gold Award winner is featured in this month’s Design New England (pdf).This long term project, spanning over three years, turned a neglected Brookline corner property into a formal English country estate garden, or at least, the illusion of one.

A South End Urban Oasis | Garden Design Online

Every space, large or small, has the potential to delight. Garden Design Online posted a nice write up featuring one of our recent “mosdest” designs in Boston’s South End. An outdoor fireplace allows the townhouse owners to enjoy the space well into the New England evenings, and a relaxing water feature masks the sounds of […]

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