Landscape design and installation
A Beautiful and Beneficial landscape project in Oak Park Il : a low-grow prairie with over 4 dozen native species and counting…..plus a water garden (to keep the run-off on site)
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renovations begin… a year in…. What a response it has been (from the community AND the local wildlife) !!! As ...
Witch-hazels abloom- mid January !!! ??? A tad early?
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Wow. I’ve always been aggaga come 1st sighting of something popping – usually late winter /early spring. But the first ...
Geneva and St. Charles springtime landscapes and perennial gardens.
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Springtime in the gardens of St. Charles , and early blooms of a vintage flower garden in Geneva Il, quite ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bluebells: a naturalizing beauty for any woodland or shade garden setting (seen here in a Wheaton, Il. landscape)
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Bluebells a bloomin!Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia) in bloom in Wheaton, Il. mid April. Quite a show. Mertensias naturalize well, come up ...
Another landscape design and renovation in Oak Park, Il. by Max’s Greener Places
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A view of this lovely home of Oak Park before we began the landscape design and renovations. 50 yr old ...
An early spring perhaps? Seen here in a Wheaton Il shade garden in bloom, in the snow.
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A sight for sore eyes: this is one of many witch-hazels in our collections here. This winter blooming shrub adds ...