2022 Trends in Garden Design

When considering your garden, BTH totally encourages the top priority to be your own personal needs and aspirations. Our designers will talk you through a design process that ensures your landscape is a reflection of what you are specifically looking to get from it and how you plan to use and interact with it. And while “custom landscape plan” is our middle name, it is also inspiring to peruse and consider design ideas far and wide, to help determine what you are and what you’re not looking for. To get the juices flowing, here’s a list of garden design trends for 2022:

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Live Plants or Faux Plants? These days, it’s not an either/or situation

An update on the age old question: Live vs. Faux?
How can we improve upon nature? Live plants, more in vogue than ever, pair perfectly with seemingly any space- yet contemporary faux plants have come a very long way in recent times, and along with traditional silk flowers and plants, there are also options for preserved, dried, fabricated, even metal botanicals if you’re looking for something implied and more sculptural. Whether your space should feature live foliage or “fauxliage” comes down to your own personal needs and lifestyle. And don’t be surprised if the ideal solution is a combination of the two.
These pointers will help you to choose a plant suitable for your space:

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Are Your Gardens Ready for the Winter?

Now is the time to get our gardens ready for the winter months ahead.
Here is an Autumn garden checklist to look over, let us know how we can help!
  • Irrigation – November is the month to maintain and winterize your irrigation system
  • Mulching – Adding mulch to your garden now protects the roots of your plants through the winter
  • Burlap – Wrap to protect younger or tender trees
  • Perennials – Trim and prune
  • Annuals – Remove annuals from the garden around the first frost
  • Winter Themed Designs- Add lush green evergreen boughs, birch branches and pine cones
  • Spring Bulbs – Think spring! Time to plant your spring blooms now

Reminder! This is exactly the time of year to have your irrigation system serviced and winterized for the colder months ahead. To minimize the risk of freeze damage to costly components, this important step safeguards your investment by blowing out the irrigation equipment with compressed air and releasing any water that may be present in the system.

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Survivor Tree Seedling Program at New York-Presbyterian

When the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, one tree, a Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana), survived through the wreckage and was given the name “The Survivor Tree.” The Survivor Tree seedling program was launched on September 11, 2013, in partnership with Bartlett Tree Experts of Stamford, Connecticut, and John Bowne High School in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. Over 400 saplings have been grown from that one surviving pear tree and the program sees to it that each year in September; young trees are given to communities affected by tragedy, in the spirit of hope and resilience.

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Biophilia: The love of nature and of living things

The concept of Biophilic design is that our built environment is critical to people’s health, and productivity, as well as their emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being. Buildings and landscape can support human health or they can be detrimental. Biophilia shifts the emphasis of our development and asks how we can make our built environments better for human health and safer for the environment.

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