Daniel Grose Garden Design

Awesome families like the Parks deserve awesome landscapes 🙂

Returning to this garden from 2 years ago for a little pruning and filling in some gaps with new perennials 🦋🐝🙂 . The best landscapes aren’t “installed”, They are grown ! Installation day sets the journey in motion

Ditched the lawn and went with a native pollinator garden !! Of all the work we do, this is the most fun, rewarding, and meaningful!

A good crew can make a big difference in a few hours on a Saturday morning !

Out with the old Holly and English ivy and in with a woodland inspired garden with fern, phlox, dwarf oak leaf hydrangea, tiarella, and more !!! Laying out the design might be my favorite part of the job !

For the first time this year we will be taking on a handful of new clients! If you are interested in a landscape design, consultation, or a customized annual maintainance package please feel free to call or send me a message!!

If you ask me to design a shade garden for you, and you want a true natural feeling woodland, I will undoubtedly suggest lots of Carex and ferns. Carex IMO is the most underutilized shade plant and essential for a woodland garden. I snapped some photos of Carex and ferns in the Appalachian mountains this past week so you could see what the affect is…. Carex (the soft grassy looking plant ) planted in sweeps looks so graceful and imbues your garden with peacefulness .

Well the bridge in the background might be cracked, but this bed on the southern tip of mud island is looking mighty fine (after 10 cubic yards of soil and a couple hundred plants 🙂)

When someone says “nothing grows under this oak tree” I say “challenge accepted !” Right plant right place, Dry shade has a very cool plant palette!

What goodies are we planting today ?!
Itea
Oak leaf hydrangea
Distylium
Carex appalachica
Aster divaricatus
Autumn brilliance Fern
Lady fern
Woodland phlox w
Spigelia
Foam flower
Button bush

Always nice when a client sends you this !

Harry snapped this shot of Amsonia while doing meadow maintenance at River Garden Park this week. The Baptisia is poppin as well !

Took a walk around my brothers magical 40 acres of woodland, as a designer my first teacher is Mother Nature , there is not a landscape designer on earth that creates this kind of magic 🐿🐸🐺🐝🪱🕸🐢🌳🍂🌻🌼🌸

Went to Natchez Trace this weekend to catch the Native Azaleas... they were awesome! To bad I can’t share the fragrance on Facebook 😄

Another goody from last April

From my other fb page

Hi, I am a Pipevine Swallowtail!
You can tell me apart from my cousins Black Swallowtail and Spicebush Swallowtail because I more blue on my wings. My host plants are vines in the aristolochia family (aka pipevines) and if you plant some I will likely come visit your garden and lay eggs. In the South my favorite pipevines are Dutchman's Pipe and Virginia Snakeroot. Don't eat them yourself though! They contain high concentrations of aristolochic acid which helps to keep me from being eaten by predators. Once I've made it to my adult stage I enjoy nectar from many flowering plants, though I might be partial to purple & pink flowers such as those found on Swamp Milkweed, Joe Pye W**d, Phlox Paniculata, Ironweed, and some varieties of Agastache.

Laying out the herbaceous layer for a woodland edge/ woodland garden is one my favorite moments in life. Throw on some calm music, send the crew elsewhere , and just take a couple hours to feel out the space, sit in different spots , imagine different angles of sunlight, the overlapping textures, heights, and flowering of each section. Weeks of drawings , clearing , planting understory and shrub layers , all lead to this, my favorite in the design and installation process !!!

Every yard has space for a pollinator bed ... even if it’s just a pollinator pot 😄🐝🐛🦋🐞🌻🌸🍀🌼

They had a bed of only azaleas and laurels , they asked if we could do something that was more interesting .... so we planted a mini woodland in a raised brick planter ... they loved it as much as we loved creating it 🙂

As we are getting some heavy rains which reveal all our drainage and water flow issues, let’s consider different ways to think of water as an assets instead of always installing French drains (though they are sometimes necessary )

Pruning trees is one of the great joys of my life, studying the tree finding the elegant shape underneath, always drawing from memories of trees in the forest 🙂

I am thankful we get to work on public space projects like this re-work of the landscape around the Matyrs Park monument. When all the flowering perennials wake up next spring it’ll be full of purple and white perennials
and soft flowing grasses 🌾🌸

Finished up a really cool project at the historic Woodruff Fontaine house today! Woodland garden and butterfly garden, excited to see it come to life next spring !! 🦋🐝🐿🌳🌸🌻

Had fun creating this little turtle pond this week 🐢🐢☘️☘️

Let the fall perennial garden plantings begins 🙂🌻🌼🌸🌾🐝🦋🐛🐞

Last Monday vs this Monday 🙂 - a native plant garden designed to practically address erosion while creating a woodland haven in this backyard !

Sometimes it’s all about beautiful plants , other days it’s about jackhammers , shovels , and dirt 💪⚒

Structure in place for a “Charleston” style courtyard ... still some character to be added 🙂

Erosion problem and erosion solution

Planting day last September vs June 9 months later !

Today it’s a perennial bed, last October 1st it was a Nandina bed. Perennials still surprise me at how quickly they establish. Fall planting and zero irrigation 🙂

Rain garden #3 for the year 💦🌧👌

It was time to change out those “gas station” shrubs with something a little more elevated but still very low maintenance

Excited about this bioswale/rain garden! Usually the default method to address drainage and water issues is to install Drains. This is a much more beautiful and environmentally conscience way to capture that rain water and put it to good use! This photo was the installation day in early April, I’ll be sure to post it’s progress throughout the summer .

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