Plants & Planting Design Need planting design help? Home Outside’s Garden Bed Design service to the rescue!Did you know that a plant may not flourish in your garden just because your…Home OutsideNovember 11, 2020
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Home Outside’s Backyard Landscape Design ServicesWith a glowing fire and fairy lights overhead, this backyard living room epitomizes the magic…Home OutsideAugust 27, 2020
Landscape Design AppLandscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Try This: Colorful Container Planting DesignPlanter Design Inspiration Need some guidance and inspiration to brighten up your outdoor living room?…Home OutsideAugust 21, 2020
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Home Outside’s Front Yard Landscape Design ServiceCreating a Welcoming Face for your Property When it comes to our homes most of…Home OutsideAugust 6, 2020
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsUncategorized Home Outside’s Virtual Landscape Design Services There are many reasons why getting landscape design help for your yard through a…Home OutsideJuly 17, 2020
Garden Furniture and AccentsLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Father’s Day Gift Ideas (for Dads Who Love to Be Outdoors!)Here are a few Father's Day gift ideas from the Home Outside team. Sure, a…Home OutsideJune 18, 2020
FeaturedLandscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting DesignSustainable SolutionsUncategorized Four Easy Ways to Increase Your Front Yard Curb Appeal While Decreasing Your Carbon FootprintIn addition to being an attractive addition to your front yard, a tree that will…Home OutsideFebruary 18, 2020
FeaturedLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Garden Planning: Home Outside’s Landscape Book RecommendationsThere's no time like midwinter to start planning the changes you'd like to make to…Home OutsideJanuary 10, 2020
Plants & Planting Design Time to plant (and get a discount on Renee’s Garden seeds)!By Jana B., Home Outside designer It’s Memorial Day Weekend! In Vermont, we're celebrating because…Home OutsideMay 24, 2019
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Open Air Rooms: Containing BoundlessnessBy Julie Moir Messervy. Photos by Grey Crawford from Outside the Not So Big House…Home OutsideMay 14, 2019
Plants & Planting Design Indoor Plants & Greenery for the HolidaysThis time of year, it’s wonderful to bring holiday lights and greenery into the house…Home OutsideDecember 17, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips How to Make an Entrance: Lighting!The season of holiday entertaining and visiting is now underway, and nothing makes your home…Home OutsideNovember 21, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Oh, Rats! Rodent-Proofing an Urban GardenThere's a nasty little fact of city life that no one wants to talk about,…Home OutsideOctober 24, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsSustainable Solutions A Beautiful, Drought-Tolerant Garden: Xeriscaping for Water ConservationXeriscaping (from the Greek word xeros, meaning 'dry') means landscaping so that little or no…Home OutsideOctober 19, 2018
Home Outside ProjectsSustainable Solutions Landscape Problem Solved: The HellstripSome people call it the "hellstrip": that narrow patch of space between the sidewalk and…Home OutsideOctober 16, 2018
FeaturedGarden Furniture & AccentsLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Outdoor Living: Screened Porch Inspiration…And a PlanThe Inspiration A well-designed screened porch can serve as protected outdoor dining, living, and play…Home OutsideAugust 27, 2018
FeaturedGarden Furniture & AccentsLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Residential Landscape Design: A Deck Immersed in GreeneryPhoto from Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love by Julie Moir Messervy (Taunton Press, 2009). Photo by…Home OutsideAugust 26, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Don’t Track That Dirt Inside! Outdoor Shower InspirationThere is a freedom that comes from showering in the out-of-doors. For those lucky enough…Home OutsideJuly 12, 2018
FeaturedGarden Furniture & AccentsLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Party Central: A Firepit Garden for Summer NightsThis outdoor living area is a cozy harbor, backed on one side by a neat…Home OutsideJune 4, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Need Just a Little Landscape Design Help?Maybe you don't need a whole property plan—perhaps you just want to get a landscape…Home OutsideApril 20, 2018
FeaturedLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Using Stone in the LandscapeUsed correctly, stones can act as both focal point and backbone of any landscape. They…Home OutsideMarch 26, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Recommended Reading: New Landscaping Ideas That WorkAs winter winds down, we could all use a little garden inspiration. How about 200+…Home OutsideMarch 9, 2018
Landscape Design AppLandscape Design Ideas & Tips Online Expert Landscape Design Help at a Price You Can AffordBy Julie Moir Messervy, Founder & President of Home Outside Wherever I go, I see…Home OutsideMarch 7, 2018
FeaturedGarden Furniture and Accents Garden Products We Love: All-Weather Garden ContainersLunaform, located on the coast of Maine, makes all-weather garden containers, planters, fountains, and birdbaths.…Home OutsideFebruary 16, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Plants We Love: ‘Spilled Wine’ WeigelaThere are many good reasons that the ‘Spilled Wine’ Weigela was named the Landscape Plant of…Home OutsideJanuary 26, 2018
FeaturedLandscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Plants We Love: A Cream and Lime GardenThis Vermont garden designed by JMMDS (the landscape design firm that owns Home Outside) features…Home OutsideJanuary 16, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design It’s Seed Catalog Time!In our Vermont studio, it’s 35°F out today and SUNNY! It practically feels like summer…Home OutsideJanuary 9, 2018
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Recommended Reading: Big Dreams, Small GardenDo you ever feel envious of picture-perfect garden-porn landscapes that few of us can afford…Home OutsideSeptember 5, 2017
Garden Furniture & Accents Landscape Inspiration: A Stylish Fire GardenFrom time immemorial, fire has been a vital part of our outdoor landscapes. Originally used…Home OutsideAugust 30, 2017
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Planting Design Tip: Swathes and Swoops and Drifts and RiversOh, the siren call of nurseries and garden centers in spring! It is so tempting…Home OutsideMay 1, 2017
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Online Landscape Design Help for a Large PropertyThe Home Outside online design service isn’t just for small properties. These rural Vermont clients had a…Home OutsideMarch 10, 2017
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Landscape Design Tip: Study the Flow in WinterIf you live in a northern climate, the best time to study the flow of…Home OutsideJanuary 10, 2017
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Bold Backyard Landscape DesignCreate a Floating Effect in the Landscape In this backyard landscape, each material – metal,…Home OutsideNovember 18, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Landscape Design Inspiration: Grasses Shine in FallFall is when grasses really shine. Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’) and firetail mountain fleece (Persicaria…Home OutsideSeptember 10, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Landscape Design Tip: Back Up Your Seating!When placing a seat or bench in your landscape, “Create a sense of security around…Home OutsideSeptember 1, 2016
Landscape Design AppLandscape Design Ideas & Tips App Tip: How to Create a Property Base Plan with a Map ImageDid you know that you can use the Map Tool to import a satellite image…Home OutsideAugust 9, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Landscape Design Tip: Soften Straight Lines with PlantingsA client asked us, “I have a lot of straight lines in my landscape. Is…Home OutsideJuly 22, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Path Materials: Why We Love PeastoneOur Home Outside designers are often asked for recommendations for path materials. The options can be overwhelming,…Home OutsideJune 24, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Urban Garden Design: An Intimate Terrace GardenAt the heart of this open-air room is a beloved crabapple tree, visible from the…Home OutsideJune 13, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Coastal Massachusetts: A Sideyard Transformed into a Firepit GardenWe turned an unused side yard into an outdoor “fire garden” for a couple that…Home OutsideApril 15, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsNews A Pool Terrace Garden in VermontThe work of JMMDS, the landscape architecture and design team behind the Home Outside online landscape design service,…Home OutsideJanuary 21, 2016
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Sow Now, Eat Later!With only the hardiest kale and parsley growing in our vegetable gardens in November, our…Home OutsideNovember 30, 2015
Landscape Design AppLandscape Design Ideas & Tips DIY Landscape Design: Drawing Your Property Base PlanWith our Home Outside service, JMMDS can create landscape plans for people who live far from our Vermont studio.…Home OutsideOctober 17, 2015
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Stone Walls in the LandscapeMany of us are lucky to live where natural stone is plentiful. Whether flat or…Home OutsideAugust 27, 2015
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsSustainable Solutions Water-Conserving Landscape Design for CaliforniaIn “Try Rock Gardens to Soften the Look of Drought-Friendly Yards,” reporter Suzanne Sproul describes how…Home OutsideJune 30, 2015
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Using Trees for Formality in the LandscapeTrees provide a sense of formality as in this allée of hornbeams (Carpinus fastigiata). Their graceful…Home OutsideJune 8, 2015
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Landscape Design Tips for Snowy ClimatesL: WINTER OBSERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL TO GOOD LANDSCAPE PLANNING: YOU CAN MAKE NOTE OF THE…Home OutsideJanuary 16, 2015
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Plants We Love: AnemonesOne of our garden favorites is stealing the spotlight right now. Anemone tomentosa“Robustissima” has cool, silvery pink…Home OutsideSeptember 5, 2014
Landscape Design Ideas & Tips Screened Porch Season Is Nearly Here!A well-designed screened porch can serve as protected outdoor dining, living, and play space, or…Home OutsideApril 25, 2014
Landscape Design Ideas & TipsPlants & Planting Design Landscaping Don’t: The (Over)Mulching of AmericaThe images above show the progression of a suburban landscape from bare mulch to lush…Home OutsideNovember 11, 2013