A lot of people ask me what does a landscape designer do in the winter? My response is usually a lot of planning for the spring. My planning is mostly consumed as the co-owner and not as the designer. I prefer spending time workin
g on designs, so we are ready for the hectic spring. Next week I will feature a pool project. Check in. This is a must see project. We actually started the design process in the fall of ’07 and had them swimmer for the summer of ’08. It is never to early to start planning.
This winter has been a little different. I spent the last couple weeks painting a mural in my basement. I love to put a creative touch to almost everything I do. I designed the layout of my basement and some day will post that as well. I have always been intrigued by painting and never made the time to take it up as a hobby. This was my first painting and I found it very interesting to learn how the different paints respond to different brushes. The mural is in my kids play room which will most likely turn into something else some day.
Landscape Designs With Garden Wall Art
Spending years coloring drawings, I natural was drawn to a landscape scene. I lo
ve the sense of age stone walls bring to the landscape. The containers sitting in the window sills show someone has taken ownership of this old stone ruin. Leaving the grasses to grow in front of the wall is demonstrating design constraint. The simplicity of the nature allows the wall to speak for itself. As designers, we often fail by trying to add vs. letting along. We need to ask ourselves are we really enhancing the view, the space, or the function by adding more.
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The free standing wall is almost finished. Next week I’ll probably show the impact the wall makes from a spacial design perspective.
own species named for there colored fruit, red and black. This plant is a multi stemmed shrub, 6-12 feet tall and spreads readily by root sprouts. This is truly a plant for four seasons, in spring it produces clusters of white, five petaled flowers. They give way to dark green foliage throughout the summer months. This foliage turns from a lush green to a orange/red that really stands out in the fall garden. Also appearing are the bright red, pear shaped berries. These berries persist on the plant though December and January and along with the reddish brown exfoliating bark really standout in the winter landscape. Although the fruit persist though most of the winter, they are occasionally eaten by game birds and song birds and reportedly by bears. Because this plan
We had some tough site conditions for our first week. I think we where able to give our client a good visual of the upper and lower spaces. Brian started constructing the shell in sections at our shop on Thursday. Although the rain stopped earlier than expected, we would have done more harm than good working at the site. This prep work allowed for quick installation when we arrived Friday morning.
