Landscape Renovation in Howard County, MD

This summer we had the opportunity to reorganize some gardens on an amazing property in western Howard County, MD. The client had moved in to the home 4 years earlier and was ready to rework many of the garden beds that came with the house. We excel in this situation where a client wants to keep many of the existing plants but make it look better. With my knowledge, experience and degree in Horticulture we are able to make wise decisions on which plants too keep, which to transplant and which to add.

This property was interesting because it had amazing views, extensive gardens and a lot of deer. We stuck to deer resistant plants and used a lot of what was present but moved plantings around to different garden beds. You could tell the beds where gorgeous about 10-15 years earlier but perennials had not been contained in certain areas. There were bare spots in beds that needed some new plantings. And the weeds- oh the weeds!

Bed by bed I came up with a detailed plan about what I would transplant and what I would add. We worked through this plan in a total of 13 different garden beds! The goal was to increase the visual impact of the beds while using low maintenance, deer proof plantings without starting over from scratch. These sorts of projects are always nail biting situations until you start to actually see the end results- and boy it was awesome! My plans worked and these beds look awesome and will mature really nicely. I surprised myself. It’s always nice to see a vision in my head get translated in to reality.

We had a blast on this property and look forward to checking in on it over the years. Now- some photos of what we did!

Some astilbe for a shady, deer grazed area

Golden fernspray falsecypress and seasonal annuals at an entrance bed. It’s nice to use slow growing specimen plants like the many varieties of false cypress at the beginning of driveways and home entrances.

In this garden bed we removed the liriope that was creeping in to the center of the bed. Then we transplanted some spirea into the bed to fill it in nicely.

We transplanted and augmented these garden beds

Less is more in some garden beds. We reduced the overall different types of plants in this bed to make a stronger visual impact.