Outdoor Design

botanical style

You may wake up one morning and have a revelation that the entire garden needs to be restored to its former glory, or even totally removed and replanted. Neither task should be taken lightly, nor without a lot of thought and care.

Once a tree is chopped down or a plant dug up and thrown out, it is lost forever. With it you will lose the time it took for the plant to grow to that size, the character it may have added to the garden, and its significance as part of the surrounding environment. If you have ever started a garden

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