Designing and Installing Cost-Effective Urban Gardens

Solutions can be small or elaborate with equally pleasing results. An old overgrown bed in this Cambridge garden transforms simply to a year round attractive border with carefully placed trees, shrubs, and perennials using evergreen and deciduous plants.

 

A substantial makeover for this Boston Charlestown patio offers a more complex approach for a small space. Carefully patterned architectural details are designed and installed. They include a new privacy fence, a brick patio and new planting beds.

Live in your garden all summer!

My own garden, like yours, has its unique share of shade, bright sunlight, wet and dry soils. To the right are several garden treatments that take advantage of different environments in my yard: the dry garden is perfect for a meadow, the damp shady garden for Hydrangeas, Hostas, Hibiscus and annuals, the containers for perpetual color in full sun. Perennials are selected for sun and shade. Together, we can explore the possibilities for your space.

Enhance Your Urban Patio with a Beautiful Garden

A usable room needs shade, water, visual interest, and privacy from overlooking neighbors. The plan proposed a screening trellis of the Trumpet Vine, Campsis radicans, ample cedar boxes for colorful annuals, a watering system and a unifying Asian theme for garden accessories.

Come Home to an Urban Jewel!

Curb Appeal will help you increase the value of your home with updates to landscaping and the home's exterior. This tiny front garden of a classic apartment building on a busy Boston residential street went from stark and brown to lush and green. A real eye turner on a otherwise drab streetscape!

 

In Watertown, MA, a celebratory party inspired this makeover. But the effect is long lasting and durable. The cottage garden that I created fits perfectly with the scale and aspect of the building.