SUNNY RESIDENTIAL
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This garden was featured in the Home & Garden section of the Daily Herald newspaper, Sunday, July 4, 2004. This is a tour around a predominantly sunny residence of many acres. The grounds have been landscaped by top landscape artchitects many times but those efforts failed to capture the owner's vision. We began working here in 2002 creating and, over the years, adding to capture the owner's desires making many elements and an environment that he now uses as his office-garden. He conducts his regular business there daily. "Woof!" (I love my garden.) Click here to see more views of this home and yard in North Barrington. |
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Everybody loves Toby!!! Toby wiil not be outdone by the sweet-looking but really quite mean and nasty Mickey from North Barrington. Here Toby gloms onto Georgette in her beautiful garden on the north side of Chicago. Click here to see more views of this home and yard in the north side of Chicago. |
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We started working on this college professor's home in 2005. We found tons of stone left over from other progjects and used as much of it as we aesthetically could. We planted beds in the back and the side and rejuvenated his lawn. He is an avid gardener and does his own stewardship. He keeps the garden looking great. |
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New construction started in the rain in November 2001. Terrible soil so poor and debris-filled it was only because native plants thrive here that anything grew. Now, as you can see, it is full and lush with color and life. |
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This knowledgeable, expert lady gardener in Evanston needed help. Her grounds were out of control. We reconstructed the raised flagstone terrace, added plantings in the front, side and back and created a rain garden alongside the garage. |
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This was magic!! A huge Colorado Blue Spruce dominated the front yard from the yews to the sidewalk. We removed the tree and yews and planted along the front and side. It was truly a wondrous transformation.  |
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This modest back yard was so dark and shadow-filled that nothing grew. The owner thinned two maples on the south side, letting in much more light. We then designed and installed eclectic plantings and features. The yard is "busy" but looks just right. |
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The beautiful native wildflower beds around this home contrasted with the brilliant red tile roof present a unique flair that can not be equalled. |
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The owner of this well-planted Oak Park backyard has two large dogs that love to roam and explore the wildflower beds on the paths we provided especially for them. |
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The gentle sloped appearance of the sun-loving bed is achieved by using plants of varying heights, not by having a burm or terrace in the middle of the bed. The large drooping grass-like sedge in the lower right hand corner, about one foot tall and four foot wide, is Carex vulpinoidea. It makes a great anchor by a sidewalk or corner. |
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This photograph was featured in the July/August 2003 edition of Chicagoland Gardening Magazine. You have to search far and wide to find a plant as beautiful as this brilliant orange Butterfly Milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa. |
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A photo of this house and garden graced the promotional poster for the 2008 Berwyn Bungalow Tour. Click here to see the photo of the poster. |
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This enclosed courtyard garden is surrounded by two story walls on all four sides. It reminds me of an opening in the woodlands. |
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It is like a beautiful addition to the home! What a pleasure to look out of the family room or from the swimming pool to see this beautiful garden in bloom. |
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This beautful rain garden replaced a very weedy, unattractive area along the fence. |
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We tried everything to keep the rabbits out, but nothing worked. Garlic, fragrant hand soap, Liquid Fence and plastic coyote decoys were all ineffective. We finally resorted to using a chicken wire fence. (See the fence posts?) Click here to see more of rabbit-infested patio garden in Skokie. |
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Why leave home? Mother Nature's beauty can exist a hands-length and a heart-beat away. Click here to see more of this sunny backyard garden on the northside of Chicago. |
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A large "dawg" the owners had rescued loved to dig up this side of the garden until they installed this inexpensive fence. |
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This large yard in McHenry was planted in very heavy clay. Like many other gardens it is a haven for rabbits. This spring photo features the white flowers of Meadow Anemone, Anemone canadensis (lower left hand corner), Foxglove Beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis (left center), amd the yellow flowers Sand Coreopsis, Coreopsis lanceolata (center) and Prairie Sundrops, Oenothera pilosella (lower right). |
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Anything you want to keep looking beautiful requires that you give it care and attraction, like this well-tended back yard. Click here to see more of this sunny garden in Downers Grove. |
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