This week I asked landscape architect extraordinaire and friend of mine, David Daigle, to give a little information on how to create a great landscape design: Your home can be just as beautiful as any artist’s painting by taking a tip from the painter – create a frame around your home. Consider the bulk of […]
We’re starting a landscape installation in Sachse today. The home has a beautiful stone border but it is too close to the house to allow us to create depth so we’re extending the beds out in front of the stone by eight feet. The builder also used lots of dwarf burfords which are great plants […]
After spending 30 years repairing sprinklers and installing landscape in North Dallas, what I have noticed is there are very few drainage problems. What I find most of the time when I’m called to fix a drainage issue is we have an over-watering issue instead. When there is a real drainage issue most people want […]
Looking for a colorful shade annual? You won’t find anything more colorful than impatiens. These will easily reach 12″ and I’ve seen some reach 24″. Notice we massed them at the entrance of this Fairview landscape installation. That gave us great bang for our buck. Not long from now the perennials will kick in and […]