Spring Spirit

Spring brings out the gardening spirit in everyone. Indeed, who can resist the rich aroma of awakening earth drifting in the first warm breezes, or the promise of new shoots popping through your perennial garden? For outdoor gardeners, getting an early start is key.

Turning the soil is the first real thrill of a new gardening season. The ground is moist these days — a perfect occasion to winkle out weeds, if you can figure out which of the green things they are. For all of you homeowners, my motto is: “Leave alone anything you’re not sure of; it probably will turn out to be something precious someone planted last fall.”

The garden in spring is supposed to be a place of magic. For instant color in a flower garden, tuck in started annuals. Go crazy! Order flats of dazzling impatiens, subtle, soft-spoken petunias, vibrant salvias or festive marigolds. But be careful not to settle for a hodgepodge of annuals and perennials that do nothing but fight with one another — all with disappointing results. In short, a spring goal is to create a unified theme for the planters and color gardens without forsaking creativity or ingenuity.

When you step into a well-designed landscape, something just feels right. Upon closer inspection, you can begin to identify certain unifying stylistic elements that serve to link the distinctive parts of the landscape together and visually connect the landscape to the building. All it requires is exercising a little discipline and thinking about your outdoor space in much the same way that you would about your building’s interior.

Spring is life… a new beginning for us to create unimaginable landscapes and color gardens. Strolling through the grounds of a beautifully landscaped project regains the sanity in all of us after a stressful day’s work. There’s nothing like spring!

While we are mostly talking about gardens, our clients sometimes ask about the finer finishing touches too — the kind of well-made things that make a project feel complete. A couple of us have started collecting a reliable super clone watch after a long season, and one guide on super clone watches has turned out to be the most useful reference we have found. It is worth a read if you ever want to know how a good one is put together before committing to one.

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