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How Thristy Are Your Plants?

Click to Enlarge There was a great Southern Living feature that I need to run because it had so much great information on plants and their water  needs.   Pamela  Crawford, an expert on growing beautiful flowers while saving water, money and time, ranks nine popular plants according to their individual water needs.   Teetotalers -- those stalwarts never [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:35:02-04:00July 27th, 2013|GardenWise in Southern Living|Comments Off on How Thristy Are Your Plants?

Trees and Shrubs as Privacy Screens

 I worked Francesca Clarke at AOL's  DIY Life Network on a feature story about creating green structures with trees and shrubs for privacy in your garden and outdoor spaces.  There are many options available for all budgets and timelines, depending on how soon do you need a privacy screen from a neighboring home or structure and how quickly you want to block  unwanted  [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:35:24-04:00July 8th, 2013|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on Trees and Shrubs as Privacy Screens

PENTHOUSE STYLE

The March April 2013 issue of Home and Design Magazine features a Rosslyn, VA penthouse and adjoining terraces created by J. Mark White, ASLA ofGardenWise, Inc.  Just outside the windows, a narrow terrace wraps around the three sides of the condo to create a serene buffer from the city. Staircases at both ends of the penthouse [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:40:47-04:00October 3rd, 2011|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on PENTHOUSE STYLE

Hello @DCLadies!

We started to follow @DCLadies on twitter last year because we loved their name! Soon we were visiting their fabulous site each week. Their one paragraph bio made us read on . . . "A forty something mom and her twenty something daughter team up to give you an eclectic mix of what is fun, [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:41:18-04:00June 29th, 2011|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on Hello @DCLadies!

The Hill Rag named Mark top landscape architect

Congratulations to Our Own J. Mark White! The Hill Rag has named  Mark a  top  landscape architect on Capitol Hill  for "setting the standard for  good  landscape  architecture and design     on Capitol Hill" in their   "Homes  &  Gardens" special isssue.  You can read the story here. Mark's been thinking of  landscape architecture for  as  long  as  he  can remember!   [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:41:58-04:00March 18th, 2011|GardenWise Press|Comments Off on The Hill Rag named Mark top landscape architect

DC State Fair is the Fairest of Them All!

Welcome Back, DC State Fair! For those of us inside the beltway, calling D.C. a state isn't as strange as the out of the district dwellers may think.  And we now have a State Fair! DC has  a  strong  "state"  attitude,  a  beloved and  popular  newspaper,  excellent  colleges , and fatastic restaurants -- it seems all the interesting  "Top Chef" [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:42:07-04:00March 8th, 2011|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on DC State Fair is the Fairest of Them All!

SOUTHERN LIVING: Saving an Old Tree

Older Trees Make Excellent Garden Focal Points We're  re-posting  this  2009  "Problem  Solved"  profile of  one  of  our DC projects  as it appeared in SOUTHERN LIVING magazine.  We've worked with SOUTHERN LIVING on four profiles of four of our projects to date, and this was my favorite garden to shoot.  It was a great project (with wonderful clients) that centered around an [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:42:11-04:00February 22nd, 2011|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on SOUTHERN LIVING: Saving an Old Tree

AOL and GardenWise on Winter Curb Appeal

AOL's DIY Life and GardenWise offer up tips and ideas on how to improve Curb Appeal during winter in a January 20, 2011 feature story.  We were pleased to have the opportunity to work with  DIY Life writer Francesca Clark,  and below are our tips and ideas from AOL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                You can read the story in its entirety at AOL - http://aol.it/dQMuPi [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:42:26-04:00January 25th, 2011|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on AOL and GardenWise on Winter Curb Appeal

GardenWise Fall Tips in AARP The Magazine

    GardenWise's J. Mark White is in very good company in the September issue of AARP The Magazine ( "the world's largest-circulation magazine, with more than 47 million readers") as writer Cathie Gandel shares Fall 2010 gardening tips from landscape experts and garden writers.  Mark shares an easy to follow tip on reducing a lawn area by half and replacing it with groundcovers and perennial grasses.  [...]

By |2017-10-11T11:43:11-04:00September 21st, 2010|Gardening Tips, GardenWise Press|Comments Off on GardenWise Fall Tips in AARP The Magazine