FeaturedPlants & Planting DesignSustainable Solutions Landscape Design: Climate Resilient PlantingsPollinator planting design by Home Outside. Photo: Susan Teare Planting helps make the world more…Home OutsideSeptember 22, 2023
Featured Photorealistic Visualization Tools Increase Customer Confidence Home Outside is proud of our partnership with AMP Lighting. We developed a…Home OutsideSeptember 20, 2023
Featured Home Outside’s Mission: Thoughts from Our FounderThe Courante at The Toronto Music Garden; photo by Virginia Weiler By Julie Moir Messervy,…Home OutsideSeptember 8, 2023
FeaturedVideos How to See Home Outside’s Garden Collections in Augmented RealityHere's how to project Home Outside's 3D Garden Collections on your property with your phone…Home OutsideApril 12, 2023
Featured News: Investment in Home Outside’s AI and 3D Visualization TechnologyA message from Julie Moir Messervy, Founder and CEO of Home Outside Over the last…Home OutsideJuly 27, 2022
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
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
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 & 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
News Vermont Tech Jam Awards: Help Make Home Outside a Winner!How the seed of an idea grew into one of Vermont’s Best Startups… The seed…Home OutsideOctober 11, 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 App Planning an Outdoor Wedding: Home Outside Can Help!Are you planning an outdoor wedding or other celebration? Home Outside's mobile app can help you…Home OutsideApril 27, 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
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
Home Outside Projects A Small Suburban Backyard Landscape DesignReady to transform that boring backyard into the landscape of your dreams? This family had…Home OutsideFebruary 5, 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
News Home Outside Wins a Best of Houzz Award!Home Outside has won a Best of Houzz Service Award for 2018! We’re delighted by…Home OutsideJanuary 18, 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 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 AppNews Home Outside News: 2016 Vermont Road Pitch Award!The Stowe Reporter called it “a cross between Shark Tank and speed dating,” which doesn’t sufficiently convey the…Home OutsideAugust 5, 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 AppNews Best of Houzz Award for Home Outside!We’ve been fortunate to work with homeowners all over North America to transform their yards…Home OutsideJanuary 25, 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
Sustainable Solutions Sustainable Landscape Design: A Meadow in Your Front YardNo reason for an energy-consuming lawn when you can enjoy a prairie or wildflower meadow…Home OutsideMarch 15, 2013