An urban garden with both decorative and vegetable plants combined with subtle natural architecture will not only create a beautiful outdoor oasis but a healthy lifestyle as well. With LEED certified custom landscaping, Columbine Design can help you integrate a sustainable food growing system into a beautifully designed landscape. With home-grown vegetables,... [Read more...]

Urban landscaping and gardening reached new heights in the early '90s when French botanist Patrick Blanc pioneered the murs végétaux, or vertical garden. Still on the rise in the United States, vertical gardens are grown on walls inside or on the exteriors of buildings. Captivating and innovative, these gardens are making cities more green in more than one... [Read more...]

Summer calls for outdoor entertaining! Learn how this family took their patio from drab to fab without a landscaping overhaul. The retaining wall was put in place as a solution to the sloping ground around the existing patio. By using large, misfired concrete tiles on top of the wall, the designer turned the retaining wall into additional seating for guests.... [Read more...]

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