An Interview with Andrea Nilsen of Nilsen Landscape Design Tell us a little bit about your company and its foundation. Nilsen Landscape Design is a small design firm based in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. I founded the company in 2010 after earning a Certificate of Landscape
An Interview with Andrea Nilsen of Nilsen Landscape Design Tell us a little bit about your company and its foundation. Nilsen Landscape Design is a small design firm based in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. I founded the company in 2010 after earning a Certificate of Landscape
I spent last weekend in NYC, and though there is so much to see and do there, I only had a few items on my agenda. The High Line which I had walked a few times before (in both summer and fall), Bryant Park (which I’d never been to), and a really great dinner out
Every fall I walk through my small garden and gather seeds from my region’s native perennials. I have a little paper lunch bag for each plant (nearly 100), labeled and dated, that I store the seeds in. Sometimes I take a mix of six to 10 carefully selected plants, put them in one bag,
I have a love/hate relationship with forsythia. It’s blooming right now and I love that it signals that Spring has finally arrived in New England. If I were honest with myself, though, I’m actually not a huge fan of the plant. Its yellow, while bright and
As a follow up to my post a few weeks ago on the most nutritious vegetables to grow at home, this week we’ll explore what fruit you can grow in your home garden. The book, Eating on the Wild Side does a great job of examining different fruits and vegetables in terms of how
If you are dealing with water restrictions, have a lackluster irrigation system or simply want to conserve resources, adding plants that don’t get thirsty is a smart way to green up your outdoor space. Yes, you heard that right; I said “green.” Because while replacing lawns with grave
ZeroEnergy Design creates a house that makes as much as it takes.Tired of heating and cooling large, drafty homes, architect Stephanie Horowitz’s clients wanted their new Little Compton retreat to meet aggressive energy standards. Working within their budget, Horowitz followed the rig
The whole neighborhood watched eagerly as the front yard of this home was transformed into a tidy garden with a mixture of edibles and ornamentals. The owners were originally told not to grow vegetables in their front yard, at least until they met Andrea Nilsen of Nilsen Landscape Des
Side yards are often one of the most neglected areas of a landscape, becoming a no man’s land populated only by garbage cans, air conditioning units and the occasional meter reader. When the owners of this Cambridge, Mass. property decided they were tired of the unused strip next to t