One of the administrators kindly sent me a photo of this garden, designed a number of years ago for a small private school in Northern Virginia, looking splendid in summer: I thoroughly enjoyed designing this space, including the stone benches, which I sketched from scratch and had hand carved.

As our charity: water fundraising campaign we’re calling 200 Miles, 1 Well charges ahead, I thought you might like to see some footage of both the problems and the wonderful solutions  

For the past month we have been actively soliciting donations for our first annual charity: water fundraising campaign we’re calling ’200 Miles, 1 Well’. Why water? Several weeks ago I spoke about this issue while out on a training ride, check it out: The idea for the fundraiser is simple: In the second week of [...]

A few ‘after’ photos of the cleanup work we did last week:

After my weekly business networking meeting I headed over for a full day of landscape restoration on the grounds of The National Wildlife Foundation‘s headquarters in Reston, VA. Arriving early, I was met with an army of organizers and support already on site and raring to go. Clearly, a great number of people did an [...]

Recently I was approached by Albert Short, President of Harmony Ponds in Fairfax, VA. Harmony Ponds is one of the premier water feature design/build/maintain firms in the Midatlantic region; Al’s projects include the fountains and other water features for the largest expansion to date of the Virginia Museum in Richmond, as well as the Martin [...]

I sell stuff on eBay. It’s been a nice little revenue stream for me over the years. For quite some time now I’ve been donating 10% of what I earn through my auctions there to one of the finest charities I know of: charity: water charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe [...]

Just checking in with one of my favorite clients this week, I see that the containers and patio are really looking lovely: I can’t wait to implement a proper garden design for the garden space itself, in the meantime the inherited plants and of course the containers (which I designed and planted in) are keeping [...]

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 [...]