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7 New Years Resolutions for your Garden

Posted January 1, 2022 0 Comments

7 New Years Resolutions for your Garden

Leave the leaves (again)!

Posted October 27, 2021 0 Comments

Leave the leaves (again)!

Compost tea please!

Posted August 24, 2021 0 Comments

Compost tea please!

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Hope for the cracking dam With the New Year’s D

Hope for the cracking dam

With the New Year’s Day high temperature in the DC region expected to be in the 60’s, I walk outside thinking about the environmental changes that global warming and habitat loss engender.

How not to feel a little like Hans Brinker, trying to hold back catastrophe with a single digit?

To paraphrase Bryan Stevenson, where hopelessness exists, environmental degradation persists.

All of us at Backyard Bounty invite you to welcome 2022 in the spirit of hope and renewal that nature gives us. A commitment to any or all of the small changes on our 2022 resolutions list will ease the pressure building on our metaphoric environmental dam.

2022 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Garden - https://backyardbounty.net/7-new-years-resolutions-for-your-garden/

Nothing makes us happier than being able to suppor

Nothing makes us happier than being able to support a big old oak tree with our #landscapedesign. This beautiful Water Oak, or Quercus nigra, is getting the equivalent of a spa day! Thanks to our crew for carefully protecting the roots while layering around it with compost, purposefully selected species, and lastly they'll top it off with a rich mulch layer.

Since the late 1980s there has been on-going resea

Since the late 1980s there has been on-going research on the qualities of landscapes that restore our ability to focus and concentrate with directed attention (you know, the kind of attention that is needed to stay alert in a Zoom meeting). One quality that has been found to counteract mental fatigue is called "soft fascination". Basically, this means we can enter a state of effortless attention when parts of the landscape inadvertently hold us briefly in fascination. Ultimately, this uplifts our mood and mental state. We purposefully design our landscapes with a variety of shapes, textures, and colors that change throughout the seasons offering numerous opportunities for restorative "soft fascination" experiences. Our designs immerse you in spaces which invite the child in all of us to explore and take time to observe. Plus, they create wonderful play spaces for children, who are naturally drawn to all the different elements and textures. The Lee Wick Dennison Sustainable Garden we designed in Chevy Chase, MD is a great example of this- go for a restorative visit and experience for yourself all the beautiful changing colors!

Likely the last radishes of the year…

Likely the last radishes of the year…

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