Featured Project: A Functional Tribute to the Land

We were lucky to be contacted by a client who designed their own dream home directly abutting a stunning nature preserve. When the homeowners were considering making some adjustments to their property, maintaining the connection between the home and its natural surroundings was of the utmost importance.

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Front Yard Privacy Garden

[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text] When they came to Lotus, the homeowners were sick and tired of their bland landscape on a corner city lot. The family wanted a place to gather in the sun and plant a garden, but also have a modicum of privacy from the busy road and elementary school […]

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Donn Garden Estate- Ann Arbor Landscape Maintenance

We don’t often feature work by a very important division at Lotus: our landscape maintenance team! From spring to fall they work fastidiously to maintain one of our favorite client’s property  (you may be familiar with home’s award-winning sculptural entry garden, designed by Traven Pelletier).   The Donn property is truly a garden estate, somewhat rare […]

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Bloom! Plant Pick of the Week – May 31, 2017

‘MOLLY SCHROEDER’ VIBURNUM   Bloom! Plant Pick of the Week – May 31, 2017   Viburnum plicatum ‘Molly Schroeder’ is a beautiful shrub that fits into a variety of garden settings… the staff at Bloom loves the showy pink flowers, unique among viburnums, and lovely horizontal tiered architecture characteristic of the doublefile varieties.  Doublefile viburnums […]

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Bloom! Opens April 15th! Come See Our Hellebores

Bloom opens in just a week! Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 15th.  We’ll be showing off plenty of hellebores (Lenten Rose). They were smuggled into Babylon in a mule’s hoof and used to poison Alexander the Great. The Roman natural historian Pliny records that black hellebore was used as a fumigant in the ritual purification of houses as […]

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