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10/04/2026
European Cottage Garden 🤝 Northeast Natives
For our #1 project of 2025, our clients’ requested a cottage style garden that still delivered ecological impact.
The existing yard’s expanses of lawn provided no curb appeal and lacked a sense of connection to each other, the home, and the broader environment. The driveway divides the front / side yard, and with no existing landscaping there, it felt like a disconnected empty lot to the clients.
By adding a series of garden beds, we related the side yard to the front yard and created new ways to wander and experience the landscape.
Read more about this project on our blog! Check bio & stories.
MAILBOX GARDEN 💌📬🌸
The curvature of this driveway creates blind spots and the corner of the landscape was often run over by delivery trucks. It also left little room for staging trash cans for pick up.
GJLD construted an irregular flagstone landing, demarcated by boulders on either side, to create a designated home for the trash cans. It also creates easy access the mailbox, without having to step though the garden.
Lifting the grade around the landing and curb inhibited stormwater runoff from poolinng in this former low spot. Deer-proof, low maintenance plantings create an attractive understory that frames the landing.
This is part three of our #2 Best Project of 2025! More details on this design are on our blog and previous posts 🌿.
30/10/2025
Welcome bulb planting season!!
Nothing quite perks up an early spring landscape like spring flowering bulbs!
Sweeps of daffodils punctuated by hyacinths and muscari can make bare shrubs look architectural.
Concentrate on building masses of bulbs around seating areas, focal points and entrances. Our landscapes are designed to draw you outside and encourage intimate moments with nature.
Plus, when the rest of your landscape is still asleep, bulbs are growing, expanding their root to shoot mass ratio and working to stabilize the soil and send nutrients to soil microbial communities.
This is especially important during early spring rains to prevent stormwater runoff.
November is the best times to plant! Contact us to schedule your fall bulb planting! 914-560-6570 or greenjaylandscapedesign.com/contact
Photos by Rich Pomerantz
27/08/2025
Discover what it’s like to intern at Green Jay Landscape Design through the eyes of Annabelle Bradley, a SUNY ESF landscape architecture student passiate about building green space and ecological design. From fieldwork to design, follow her 12-week journey of growth, learning, and exploration 🌸🌿
https://www.greenjaylandscapedesign.com/blog/growing-like-a-garden-an-intern-experience-at-gjld/
Growing Like a Garden: An Intern Experience At GJLD Discover what it’s like to intern at GJLD through the eyes of Annabelle Bradley, a SUNY ESF student passionate about ecology and landscapes.
