Edible Landscapes - Getting Started It’s starting to feel like summer, and around here we are all excited about what that means for gardens. Not only do we love to see flowers in all their spring splendor, we also love thinking about what we can enjoy eating from our gardens, and how we can [...]
Container Planting In the midst of winter, it can be daunting to take on a large-scale landscape project. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make transformative changes to your outdoor living space during this time! If you need to create a point of interest, a cooling sense of lush foliage or a [...]
Flower-Cutting Gardens A garden can serve many purposes. It can be a place of beauty and contemplative relaxation, a draw for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife, and a productive space for growing food and flowers. With Valentine's Day around the corner, we couldn’t help but write about flowers, the time-honored traditional [...]
Roses In The Landscape As Landscape Architects, the plants we incorporate into our designed spaces are as integral to the experience as our built structures. We love many plants for their beauty, durability, and long-term performance in the garden, and of course we share our clients’ favorites, among them the [...]
COLOR IN THE GARDEN Color is an incredibly powerful element in any form of design. When we plan a landscape of any style, it is one of the first things on our minds! Of course color preferences are not the same for everyone, as liking or disliking different colors varies from person [...]
FALL LEAF POTENTIAL This time of year, we are easily reminded why this season is referred to as “Fall.” Fallen leaves are invariably a symbol of Autumn, as well as a yearly chore to remove from one’s yard. But what if we told you that those leaves are more than they [...]
Flower Cutting Gardens Photography by: Sarah Cosca A garden can serve many purposes. It can be a place of beauty and contemplative relaxation, a draw for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife, and a productive space for growing food and flowers. If you’d like to create a garden perfect for flower-cutting, [...]
DESIGN WITH NATIVE PLANTS Introducing Native plants to the landscape is a trend that is becoming more popular as awareness of climate change and natural ecosystem preservation increases. As a firm dedicated to the best in design in California and beyond, we are increasingly using the plants native to the areas in which [...]
J. Montgomery Studio Garden Here at J. Montgomery, we are celebrating the 30 year anniversary of our Studio Garden! To us, it is so much more than just a beautiful landscape. We have played, worked, and sweated in every square inch of our outdoor paradise! (Sorry if that’s Too Much Information.) [...]
Pollinator Landscaping There has been a lot more attention paid in recent years to the importance of pollinators and what we can do as designers, gardeners and homeowners to protect them. Pollinators are crucial to human quality-of-life on earth, so we happen to care a lot about their well-being! Learning about [...]
