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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Our philosophy is grounded in three beliefs:. In the creation of a garden space — or an entire yard — requires a connection between. Is both interior and exterior. What we imagine we can do. What we see, we reflect in our ideas and our work. Where we are allows or prevents us from thinking deeply and being creative. Creating sustainability is all about. See your space, and want some connection with it. All of these desired outcomes qualify you as a c...
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Transform your courtyard into a private garden | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Transform your courtyard into a private garden. March 23, 2014. The biggest rain barrel you have ever seen. Next Year’s Lawn Care Starts Now →. Find us on Facebook. Landscape for Life Trainer Directory. Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance. National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Landscaping Professionals. Park Ridge, Illinois 60068.
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Author Archives: Carol Becker. What Blooms in Fall? August 23, 2016. A neighbor recently asked me what she can add to her garden that will bloom after the Black-Eyed-Susan blossoms die in mid to late August. Here are two great ideas: Japanese Anemone is just getting ready to bloom now, and it’s late August. The sample pictured here (bearing the honor of being Perennial Plant of […]. Learn Landscape Design from Sage Advice this Fall. August 23, 2016.
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Here’s how you can support pollinators | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Here’s how you can support pollinators. February 17, 2016. Here’s a list to get you started: milkweed, including butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, and common milkweed; thistle (as pictured); coneflower, particularly the native purple coneflower; monarda, coreopsis, foxglove penstemon; black-eyed Susan, and several grasses including little bluestem, panicum, prairie dropseed, and June grass. Roof Gardens for Residential Sites. Find us on Facebook.
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Next Year’s Lawn Care Starts Now. August 29, 2014. If you want a lush lawn next year, start thinking about it now! No kidding, the fall – not spring — is really the appropriate time to begin your annual lawn care program, especially if you want to convert to a lush, chemical free plan. This is so because so many things that contribute to a successful natural lawn should be done in the fall of the year. Consider these:. This mechanical process removes...
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Spaces and Places | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. We offer landscape design that meets your lifestyle needs. Demonstrates environmental sensitivity. Our aim is . . .to help you. This formal front garden on a large corner property in Batavia integrates water features, native plants, perennials and hardscape to create a traditional front yard that is sustainable, and includes blooming plants from April to late October. Even very traditional designs can integrate sustainable elements!
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Sustainability | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Learn Landscape Design from Sage Advice this Fall. August 23, 2016. Carol Becker, principal at Sage Advice Landscape Design will be teaching Landscape Design Basics at the Morton Arboretum this fall. The class will be offered Tuesday afternoons from 1:30 pm to 4:30 October 18th through November 8, 2016. You can register here. Join us to learn how to design your own garden space! Support birds and butterflies no matter where you live. June 22, 2016.
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Roof Gardens for Residential Sites | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Roof Gardens for Residential Sites. June 30, 2015. We’re pleased to present new pictures of Sage Advice Test Gardens, where we develop design solutions, test plants, and practice sustainability techniques. Categories: Sage Advice Test Garden News. Try these native plants for color and variety. Here’s how you can support pollinators →. Find us on Facebook. Landscape for Life Trainer Directory. Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance.
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Try these native plants for color and variety | Sage Advice
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Landscape Design and Sustainable Landscape Consulting. Try these native plants for color and variety. June 7, 2015. A customer who has lots of coneflowers and coreopsis in his native plant garden recently asked me for a list of less common wildflowers that would add color to his summer garden, and I worked up this list:. Shown above) — this is the midsummer blooming orange butterfly weed that goes well with coneflowers and coreopsis. Also plant some native asters for fall color. Sky blue aster,.
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