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Geneva Il landscape designs, seasonal landscape care and management
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White oak, sumacs, sedges,switchgrasses all make up this naturalistic landscape- even the stone is local! Get in touch soon- the ...
River Forest Landscape renovations of spring, let’s change that garden design!
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Landscape renovations as we redid this River Forest gem, using perennials, buckeye, asters, roses, and native species, and grasses, oak ...
Think spring (and plan for it now) New landscapes, garden designs, revisit that old shade garden
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And NOW is the time to get in touch! We offer landscape designs, patio layout, paver renovations, Woodland and natural ...
For the love of trees : part 1 (in progress) (with views from an arborist)
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And what’s not to love? Check in here periodically to catch up on my musings of the tree, the magnificent, ...
Osage Orange tree (Maclura pom.) Failure – A century and a half year old tree goes down in West Chicago, Il
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A tale behind the pictures below: (with some embellishment). Picture this……Originally oak savannah, mixed with occasional tallgrass prairie…… early 1800’s ...
Fall colors soon? Time for the fall clean up too? And its time to get the correct pruning practices too, on woody shrubs and trees
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With a 3 month drought, followed by well over a half foot of water in one day (Oct 12th)- the ...
Liveliest colors in fall blooming aster, and pollinators love them all!
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New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) is one of the Midwestern natives and late blooming. Showy purple blooms w an orange ...
Another unique (and healthy) Custom Landscape of Elmhurst, Il. from Max
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Classic (and newer) Elmhurst, Il. home with vintage architecture followed up w our naturalistic free-form landscape design (2 yrs aft.) using ...
Rare and beautiful White Ladies Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium candidum), a beguiling and shy native not suited to most of our landscapes
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And best left in the wild!, as seen here, and in nice numbers at this rather secluded and secret site ...
An heirloom landscape for a historic home in old Wheaton, Il.
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And what a project it was! Seen here some 3 to 4 years after. The azaleas, native redbuds, and serviceberry ...