Awesome Plants with a Flaw (industry mislabeling on purpose?) As a landscape designer, I plant a lot of awesome plants, and over time it had become aware to me that the nursery industry seems to have a knack for mislabeling. Their sole motivating for this is to cover...
Desert SW Style Plants for Minnesota I love the colors and textures of the native SW desert Landscape. I dig it so much that I try to add some of that flare into my landscape designs up here in Minnesota. The things that really stand out in this style of the...
New Plants that will Blow you Away this Year Stunning plants are always nice to have in your landscape garden. We often find these new gems in Spring when the nurseries launch their new lineup for the summer. Here is a heads-up……2020 is a little...
Why should I remove all of my grass, you say? Easy. It saves time, money and our climate. I don’t understand? Well….This all started when big business back in the 50’s brainwashed America into thinking that is was a dream fulfilled when you had...
When pondering a new year’s landscape resolution this winter, old school plants ran through my mind as something I really wanted to use to revitalize tired and boring landscape design. It’s not that I am sick (or bored) of my plant choices in the...
Many prospective clients ask for before and after photos of landscaping jobs we have done in the past. While we have hundreds of photos to show them the Design team here at Beds & Borders wanted to try something a little different to show a project from a...
