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A New Garden for a Historic Home (& video)
This historic home received a new landscape makeover, complete with an updated pergola, a custom built arbor, custom wood privacy trellis, a pond with a waterfall, stepping stones, and many new native plants. This garden became a certified Wildlife Habitat and certified Monarch Waystation too. We also solved some drainage issues on the site. All…
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A Serene Landscape Design & Installation (& video)
This serene landscape design was installed in 2023. This video shows post installation, in the fall. After this installation, we also installed over 30 trees on the property! The gardens around this newly built home included a front yard garden with native plants, sweetbay magnolias, boulders, and a paver walkway. In the backyard, we installed…
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Landscape Facelift + Backyard Edible Garden & Entertainment Space
The new homeowners of this small acreage property in a rural area wanted to update their landscape and add some fun features that accomodated their lifestyle. The foundational plantings had become old, overgrown, and some of the plants had died. They also planned to make part of their home an air bnb, so they wanted…
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Native Plant Rain Garden & Creekbed Rainwater Diversion French Drain
This property has had extensive drainage work due to a lot of underlying bedrock near the surface. This is not uncommon in our inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky. We often hit rocks when digging gardens and excavating. This area is unusual in that there are large slabs of bedrock sometimes not even 6″ below surface…
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Kenwick Lawn to Native Garden and Patio
The customer contacted me and wanted to landscape their property which was mostly bare and consisted of a few trees, and some overgrown shrubs. They also had some drainage issues at the side of the property which is a common issue. Their wishlist included to completely get rid of all of the lawn, remove the…
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Midway Historic Home
THE GARDEN DESIGN INSTALLATION The garden at this historical home was give a new landscape update this late summer. We removed the old roses and boxwoods and installed a whole new native plant landscape. A garden bed planted near the corner of the property was added for several functions. First, it will help mitigate storm…
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Landscape Transformation: Hartland Gardens
Before and after residential design in Lexington, Kentucky. Boxwoods, pussy willow, Japanese maple, and roses were replaced with evergreens, deciduous plants, and perennials, many native species that will prove themselves in the landscape.