Today I had the chance to sit down with the founder and president of Harmony Ponds, Inc., a full service, turnkey design/build firm just down the road from me. As the name suggests, Harmony is a landscape contracting company that focuses on water features and water ecosystems– so from highly ornate and geometric fountains and [...]

In the spirit of the legendary Billy Goodnick, I present you with the first installation of Oh Hell No, aka, “On What Planet is This Attractive?” Looking like some errant child-giant’s forgotten rock collection, this bizarre junkyard of disparate and clashing stone types seems to have been left exactly where the dumptruck upended its bed [...]

Several years ago I had the great good fortune to have a series of conversations with Gail Griffin, the Director of Gardens & Grounds at the amazing Dumbarton Oaks, a former private residence of Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss, who had the wherewithal and the desire to create a fabulous series [...]

One of my more fulfilling projects has been helping to develop this small private school’s landscape master plan.  My alma mater, I was especially pleased when they saw fit to accept our son as a kindergartner.  The school has undergone tremendous growth since I was a student there– after huge expansions and renovations, the newly [...]

Feeling overwhelmed in your landscape? Not to turn the screws a little tighter, but reflect on the photo below: That’s the private landscape crew of Dumbarton Oaks back when it was a private residence– of Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss (1875-1969).  Must be nice, eh?

I am looking forward to attending this webinar in my Snuggie! My experience with DynaSCAPE is very positive, it’s in my opinion the best CAD program for landscape design– although I am aware that Vectorworks is far and away the more prevalent program:

I missed the massive snowfall in the DC Metropolitan area back in 1996– I was living in Chicago at the time. I had actually looked forward to some epic blizzards while living there, but unfortunately the entire decade of the 90′s was not only one of the coldest for Chicago, it also experienced exceptionally low [...]