One of our Streng Brothers landscapes receives new gates.
Category Archives: General
Stabilizing and firming gravel paths
We install new gravel paths, reinforced with a cellular containment grid to keep them firm and allow us to wheel things over them relatively easily.
Ming iris
The Ming irises have started to bloom – compact plants with yellow and white flowers and orange beards.
Midsummer Night’s Dream in April
Our new irises that we purchased last fall have started to bloom. The first is ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, with an intense deep blue-violet flower held about 12″ above the ground. It’s supposed to eventually get to 17″ tall, so maybe the first year things are a bit closer to the ground. We purchased the plantsContinue reading “Midsummer Night’s Dream in April”
A String of Strengs
Some examples of recent landscape designs done for Streng mid-century modern homes in the Sacramento area. Minimalist, contemporary landscape for homes of the same style.
Water conservation mural, Fair Oaks Horticultural Center
Years ago, we created a series of water conservation panels for the Fair Oaks Horticultural Center – Water Efficient Garden. It’s still standing! It was a lot of fun coming up with the illustrations and doing the layout for the panels. Annette created a green character to add animation, while the text and diagrams showContinue reading “Water conservation mural, Fair Oaks Horticultural Center”
The Design Circus
Do design competitions truly choose the best design for a site? Do the judging criteria give us sustainable, livable, enjoyable spaces or bold, echoing spaces short on comfort?
Wow. Hit by an infinite redirect loop error!
We’re back online again, after a tiny file in a server somewhere hundreds of miles away somehow became an infinite loop. If this ever happens to you in WordPress, all you have to do is log in to your server and inactivate the htaccess file by renaming it. Then just log into WordPress and makeContinue reading “Wow. Hit by an infinite redirect loop error!”
Cat-Friendly Gardens
A landscape’s design can make it cat paradise or just a ho-hum place to go when you’re not inside. Cats like choices, since they prefer some areas by season, others by time of day and everything else seems to be according to their mood.
Le deluge!
A big atmospheric river storm series soaks the garden