Welcome to Hartland Designs! We are a boutique Landscape Design / Installation / Maintenance company serving Berkshire, Columbia, and Rensselaer counties, as well as the Capital District. We specialize in naturalized landscapes, formal gardens, stone work, edible gardens and garden care. Hartland Designs works with clients from concept to installation to ongoing maintenance. Please feel free to contact us for a consultation regarding your next outdoor project.
There`s no place like home! My nepeta and baptisia are peaking right now. I`m sad to say I haven`t seen a single honey bee in my nepeta, just a lot of solitary bumble bees. Our dogs (Hilda and Gretchen) really like spending time with us outside, especially Gretchen, the brindle.
3-4 year old gardens, filling out nicely. #berkshiregardens
Cheers to another great season. 2024 is nearly wrapped up. We were short one crew member at our lunch party, but had a good time despite her absence. Wishing everyone a blessed and fruitful New Year.
Meadow, year 1. We seeded this last Fall. This year was stunning with the biennials (poppy and cornflower) being the dominant bloomers in June, with daisies being a very important part of the mix. In the years to come, the poppies and cornflower will unfortunately disappear as the other perennials and clump forming grasses get established. Thank you @christina_florada_photography for capturing the romantic essence and scope of this project. Wish we had caught it earlier when the Scarlett clover was in bloom. #lawnsintomeadows #fieldsintomeadows #pollinatorsplayground #berskshiremeadows
Poppies, nepeta, peonies, salvia. Early June. 3 year old Garden just about. This is not what one would consider a low-maintenance garden. We irrigate and mulch and fertilize in the spring. And starting late June, we weed and deadhead a couple times a month. But as things get more established, the weeds are less of an issue, and the irrigation can be reduced.
Things this week...first year meadow in bloom, annuals, and gardens in bloom.
I am constantly thinking about this combination. Time to give it some serious action!
End of the 2023 Season! It was a great year, although you might not know it because in an effort to create some space in my life I`ve removed some things- one of them being the marketing and presenting I do on social media. Sometimes you just need to do what you got into this business to do in the first place- that is be outside, and make the world a more beautiful and ecologically better place. It doesn`t mean taking tons of before and after pictures so I can get it up on Instagram for some exposure and a few likes. I`ve been doing this work for 22 years. But I also wear a lot of other hats. And so do these great people on my crew. The great part about a seasonal job is the break in which we can all exercise all the other parts of ourselves that get neglected in the crazy 8 months that we make hay. Enjoy your Winter everyone. See you in 2024!
Some paintings of local Grafton scenery. Crandall Rd, Hewitt Cemetery, Dunham Reservoir.
These oil paintings will be for sale at Greywacke Festival of Trees on November 18.
Here are my three teenagers who have worked for us all Summer. Lilley D, Lilly V, and Rhi. They`ve been great! Hard working and positive and eager to learn. Two worked full time and one 3 days a week. That`s a big commitment for a teenager. We`ve got one other teen, Nathaniel, who is not pictured here. I guess he couldn`t fit on the steps at lunch time. He`s terrific as well.
Layers of purple. The scaevola in the front are so happy there.