Now is the perfect time to plan your landscape design project. For ideas and assistance, Eve’s Creative Landscape Design has the experience and commitment to meet all your Landscape Design needs.

Your Landscape Design process should be fun and exciting. We strive to take into consideration your wants, hopes, and needs for the project and meld them with our professional knowledge to create the ideal plan that is suited to you and your home.

Why should I Landscape?

Important first impressions are made when you view a home from the outside. Good landscaping not only adds beauty, but also value to your home. Attractive characteristics can be enhanced during the landscape process and problem areas can be disguised. An added benefit (and quite honestly, my favorite benefit) is the beauty and satisfaction received when viewing the landscape from inside your home.

Why Eve’s Creative Landscape Design?

Whether you own a new home or you are renovating an older home, we can assist you. We can help you add curb appeal to your home, create a relaxing oasis, or simply screen and/or highlight a pleasant view. We are excited with the prospect of working with you and are confident that we can help you with your designing needs.

Well, we are back after a short winter rest and loads of continuing education!  Spring has sprung and we are having the busiest spring season ever.  We are currently working on an installation of a backyard retreat that will be used for the setting of a wedding.  The design was conceived in January and after a few revisions and lots of planning, we break ground this week!  So Exciting!

Every day someone asks if it is too late to plant….Well, here in Virginia is a perfect time.  The weather has cooled, we are getting somewhat regular rainfall….hard ground freezes are still some time away…plus, most of your plantings are container grown and come with an excellent fibrous root system….fibrous roots are how the plants take in water and nutrients….so….plant on…remember, anytime we have not had a drenching rain, you will need to water deeply once weekly…..dry winter winds are as damaging as hot summer days…..Now, for you northern folks….if the ground is frozen you cannot get good root to soil contact and you should not plant until the ground and the plants have thawed.

So a good rule of thumb is, just because that air has chilled doesn’t mean the plants are shivering … as long as the ground isn’t frozen and you are able to establish that essential root to soil contact then Plant On! …

Absolutely……the weather has cooled, we are getting some good rain (to say the least) ……Dig your perennials ensuring to get an adequate root system…Use a sharp knife or garden spade to divide into pieces which each should have some ‘good roots’…..replant at the same depth as before…no deeper!….do not let the newly planted divisions go through a dry spell….keep them watered consistently until they go dormant, or we reach the cool winter months.  Shrubs should also be dug with an adequate root system and replanted at the same depth they were in the garden….one of the biggest concerns in the industry is the frequency shrubs and trees are planted too deeply….keep the crown up and the mulch back!  Please email with specific questions…Have a good Monday!

Hi there….just wanted to share a little piece of our day….we finished up a ‘retreat’ backyard in the city….we started with a dirt floor and a large maple tree  ….and ended up with several areas our homeowner could enjoy …..a slate patio, drystack stone walls with interesting plantings, small raised perennial bed, an invisible trellis in a grid pattern, decomposed granite flooring, herb garden with a fountain, and a small patch of grass for her dog ‘Bella’ to enjoy!  Also, we wanted to introduce everyone to David Hensel, our project manager.  He does exceptional work and is always professional.  Keep your eyes on the results page for all the pictures!  Would love to hear your comments …

An easy way to add interest to parts of the garden or tie the whole garden together is to add container plantings.  They can be updated and moved easily around the garden when needed….I am thinking of adding some container plantings to a client’s garden to add some late season color….I will tie them together by using the same material in different shapes and sizes….check back to see results!