Common Landscaping Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. Common Landscaping Mistakes. Common landscaping mistakes are not common-sense events. Landscaping is an art and a science. A well-planned outdoor space enhances property value, supports biodiversity, and provides long-term beauty with minimal maintenance. However, many homeowners and even some professionals make common landscape mistakes that can lead […]
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Progress of a Project: Before, During, After Every great private landscape begins with uncertainty. At first, the before stage can look dull, like there’s too much lawn or just generally unfinished. However, this is exactly where transformation begins. The progress of a project starts long before anything looks beautiful. Progress of a Project: Let’s Gooo!
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Before, During, After: The Transformation of a Native Plant Garden Before During After. Every native plant garden begins with a view that appears a little underwhelming. The before stage is often bare, compacted, and unimpressive. Turf grass, invasive plants, or tired soil dominate the space. To the untrained eye, it can feel like nothing beautiful
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Climate-resilient corporate landscaping. Climate resilient corporate landscaping is a lot more than an exterior upgrade or capital gains. (Although those tangible gains are very welcome in most campuses.) After that, a strategic investment in the health of your property, your people, and the entire region can be realized. When a corporate campus chooses native plants,
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Regenerative Landscaping Regenerative LandscapingHumans have a regenerative gear. We just need to use it. Most modern interactions with the land are quietly degrading. People mow, spray, strip, compact, bulldoze, and remove organic matter. Good intentions don’t annul the harm and fragmentation that results. Over time, the soil becomes depleted, water runs off instead of soaking
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Commercial Native Landscaping: Build It Right Once, Maintain It Less Forever. Commercial landscapes do not need to be high maintenance to be beautiful. In fact, the opposite is often true. When commercial sites invest a little more intention, planning, and quality during construction, they save dramatically on maintenance costs for decades to come. This is
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Landscape Transformation Process Landscape Transformation Process: Every great garden begins with a little faith. The before stage can look bare, messy, or even disappointing at first. Bare soil. Open space. A lot of possibility. This is the starting line of transformation, and it’s where every beautiful landscape begins. Landscape Transformation Process: The “During” Phase
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Corporate campus landscaping Corporate Campus Landscaping: Transform Your Workplace into a Living Ecosystem. Surprisingly, corporate campuses across the country are beginning to rethink what landscaping can be. Traditional landscaping looks tidy from a distance, but it comes with constant mowing, chemical inputs, irrigation systems, and high maintenance costs. Native plant landscaping flips that script. A
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Fall is the Best Time for New Landscaping Projects. Why Fall Is the Best Time for New Landscaping Projects. There are so many reasons—really, so many. Let’s start with the one everyone can appreciate: it’s easy. When new garden or landscape projects begin in the fall, we’re working with nature instead of against it. Cooler
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Wildflowers, Butterflies + Beauty landscaping. At Jessecology Eco-Landscaping, we believe beauty is more than just surface deep. Beauty is a living, breathing collaboration between people, plants, and wildlife. Our signature blend of Wildflowers, Butterflies + Beauty is not simply landscaping—it’s habitat restoration, beautification and culture curation. A Vertically Integrated Wildflower Farm & Landscaping Firm Unlike
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Fall Garden Planting. Why is Fall Garden Planting the Best Strategy? Why Is Fall the Best Time for New Landscaping Projects? There are countless reasons why fall is the ideal season for starting new landscaping projects, and it all begins with one simple truth: it’s easier. When you start a landscape renovation or new garden
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Landscaping for Privacy Basically, if you’re lucky, you’ll have awesome neighbors. People who live right near you that you can share space and joy with are a blessing from God. Neighborhood barbecues and tea shared on the porch with people you actually like are amazing gifts. It’s not always that way. Additionally, even folks who
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Recently we published an article about the link between using Japanese Barberry shrubs in landscaping and an increase in human Lyme disease infection rates in the surrounding neighborhoods. People in Saratoga Springs, Albany and Schenectady, NY are learning about this. We humans are collaborating against ourselves in a public health crisis through lazy and shortsighted
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Habitat Garden Network Over the past decade our company has been honored and delighted to create habitat restoration landscaping projects with hundreds of Capital Region residents. Our mission is to restore ecosystem function to our urban + suburban neighborhoods. By now, the gardens have absolutely taken on a new life of their own. They’ve
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Natural Landscaping in Saratoga Springs, NY This summer past we had the happy occasion to work with a photographer and drone expert on a natural landscaping photo shoot in Saratoga Springs, NY. The sites photographed were naturally landscaped properties we designed or renovated over the past few years and the native trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses and
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Woodland Gardens in Saratoga Springs, NY Before this summer we designed and installed new woodland gardens in Saratoga Springs, NY, in the neighborhood near Saratoga Lake. Shade gardens are one of the easiest places in the property to landscape sustainably, because of the rich and diverse body of available native plants that thrive in shade
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Urban Gardens A recent year we were contracted to do the design and install for the landscape renovation of an urban garden. The client’s urban location crystalized a wildlife corridor in Saratoga Springs, NY through the positioning of several dozen individual local properties with eco-savvy landscape design. This habitat renewal space is located in front
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New Construction Landscaping New construction landscaping is the best opportunity for habitat restoration. People need homes. The land is disturbed during construction. As soon as the construction phase is over, adding native species trees, shrubs, perennials and native grasses is the way to bring balance to the equation. A good ecological future is possible when
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Sustainable landscaping for new construction. Certainly, we were delighted in 2014 when a longtime landscaping dream finally came to fruition for the first time. Because we were hired that year for our first of many new construction landscape design/build projects. At this time, the construction site was in beautiful southern Saratoga County. The homes are
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This year we were delighted to be asked to create a butterfly garden in Ballston Spa at a Church. In particular, Christ the Savior Orthodox Church on Eastline Rd in Saratoga County. The butterfly garden was designed to accent the lovely roadside sign the church recently had built. Certainly, this natural landscaping will rapidly develop
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