Outdoor living spaces should feel like a natural extension of your home, not an area you only use a few months a year.
What Garden Design Looks Like Today: Blending Form, Function, and Sustainability
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Creating Outdoor Living Spaces That Work Through Every Season
Outdoor living spaces should feel like a natural extension of your home, not an area you only use a few months a year.
Edible Garden Design & Patios That Support a Kitchen Garden
There’s nothing quite like cooking with ingredients you’ve grown yourself. Imagine stepping outside your back door to gather basil for pasta, snip mint for tea, or pick a ripe tomato for tonight’s salad. With thoughtful garden design and patio design, your outdoor space can become a productive, beautiful kitchen garden that brings food and flavor within arm’s reach.
Don’t Wait to Schedule Seasonal Landscape Maintenance
Less than a week after a Valentine’s Day, Maryland residents received an impromptu taste of summer, with back-to-back 78 degree days. Skies were blue, the sun was shining, and many high-end homeowners were abruptly reminded they had lawns and gardens that would soon...
6 Ways Native Plantings in DMV Reduce Landscape Maintenance
There’s a reason native plantings in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia) are so successful. They were made for this environment. Put simply, there is no safer, more efficient, or more breathtaking way to populate your luxury landscape than with the implementation...
19th Century Retreat Wins LCA Award
McHale Landscape Design was recently honored with an “Excellence in Landscaping Award” from the Landscaping Contractors of America for its work on a 90-acre, 19th-century garden in Easton, Md. Spearheaded by McHale’s own Hans Bleinberger, the meditative and...
From Garden to Kitchen: Container Gardening Tips from the Pros
Container gardening continues to grow in popularity among landscapers and homeowners, thanks to its versatility and relative ease of care. When utilized properly, container gardening can effectively spruce up large property landscapes, outdoor living areas, patios,...
5 Ways to Achieve Low Maintenance Landscape Design
Many homeowners aspire to have gardens akin to those at the Palace of Versailles, but many more feel as though they barely have the time to be proper caretakers to a houseplant. If that sounds familiar, don’t get discouraged. Low maintenance landscape design can be...
