Native Landscaping on Saratoga Lake This June we completed new native landscaping on Saratoga Lake. The new garden build consisted of a home’s foundation landscape design near the shore of the lake. The house is located close to the lake. Therefore, it was built with a high foundation to prevent flooding issues. We used New …
Eco-friendly Gardens and Edible landscaping in Clifton Park, NY Edible plants can nicely augment eco-friendly gardens. In Clifton Park, NY (which is located in southern Saratoga County), there’s an eco-friendly landscaped property that we’ve used edible gardens and edible plants and herbs generously in the design. The above photo contains a June-bearing Strawberry as groundcover …
Shade Garden in Clifton Park, NY In Clifton Park, NY a legacy shade garden shines. Saratoga County folks (also Albany, Schenectady, Niskayuna folks) are often puzzled by the shady parts of their property. They may want a garden but think non-native Hosta and Astilbe are the only options for a shaded space. Our world’s forests, …
Being mid-June, it’s now the time of year that the invasive plant Poison Parsnip (aka Wild Parsnip or Pastinaca sativa) is blooming on the roadsides, ditches, marshes and forest edges of Saratoga + Albany County and much of the northeast. Many people confuse Poison Parsnip with the early blooming shade tolerant native species plant Golden …
Please stop with Lyme tick nurseries. In the region of upstate New York where we live, Lyme disease- an infection of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that’s spread primarily by deer ticks- has become an epidemic. All the odd controversies aside, there are physical realities about this situation that are not being acknowledged. Primarily the reality …