On a project site a few years ago, I showed a conventional landscaping crew what appeared to be a twig being inserted into the ground, and told them the twig would soon grow to be a large shrub. They didn’t believe…
Project Update: Hammond Beach & Slope Restoration - one year after installation. This Beach Club needed shoreline stabilization for their eroding beach and roadway embankment, an effort that required a lengthy wetland permitting process. They took bids from a number…
Wellnesscapes Design answers frequently asked resilient landscape design questions. 1. What is "sustainable" or "resilient" landscape design, sometimes also termed "natural" or "ecological" landscape design? An approach to landscape design that embraces natural systems and patterns to establish attractive, lower maintenance,…
Ravine Landscape Design in Arlington, MA This video shows the landscape design of two neighboring properties within a steep ravine in Arlington, MA. The upper site is viewed from the high point on top of dramatic ledge cliffs some 30…
From 2015-2018, in collaboration with Regenerative Design Group, Wellnesscapes Design served as Landscape Architect for Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, a historic farm in Mattapan, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. We transformed a neglected former farmstead corner lot in Mattapan into…
We hope that this video will help you become more aware of the value of the natural systems immediately surrounding you and how your landscape choices can really help give nature a boost. Doug Tallamy is one of our profession's great thinkers.…
Tom will be hosting two events in cooperation with the New England Wildflower Society (NEWFS): Walking tour class on June 5th in Rhode Island One-day site design intensive session on October 1st at Garden-in-the-Woods, Framingham, MA
Tom will be a Sustainable Design Rain Garden Expert at the U.S. EPA’s table at the Boston Flower and Garden Show on March 12-13, 2015.
Tom will present a talk on "Cost-Effective Green Infrastructure" at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (PA-DE ASLA) in Philadelphia on May 1, 2015.
Tom will present his talk titled "Small is Beautiful: The Design Work of an Independent Practice" at Rutgers University on April 29th.