Planting within and around natural water features and fountainscapes can be one of the most impactful and rewarding phases of any project. Whether contemporary or naturalistic, small or expansive, plants play essential roles in both the function and beauty of a living water ecosystem. Functionally, plants help keep water clean by absorbing nutrients that algae […]
In November 2020, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks brought me in to turn their old, crumbling, leaking, hard-to-see concrete water feature into a DreamScape. This was a challenging and ultimately very rewarding project to work on. Being in a cemetery, we needed to follow certain rules — mainly being quiet when services were held. A few […]
In early July 2021, I conducted an on-site consultation in Encino, California, with a brain surgeon who had a young family. There was an existing concrete water feature in the front yard that consisted of a 50-foot stream with two waterfalls and a 10-foot-wide pond about 1-foot deep. Because it leaked badly and was far […]