Welcome to my Website

A short description of what I do is at the bottom of this web page under "What I Do". "The Navigation Menu" describes how to move around the website and some of the things you will find in it. There is much information about plants for Zone 6 in the Middle Atlantic area, especially growing plants in clay soil.

You'll find a newsletter too with appropriate articles for the Maryland area and other similar areas. The articles under the various headings such as "Design" are from previous newsletters. I hope you enjoy my website and come back often as my newsletter is updated three times a year.

The Navigation Menu . . .

To use the navigation menu, move your mouse over the menu. You'll see that the main menu has sub menus and some of the sub menus have sub menus. When you find a topic of interest, click on it and you'll be taken to that page.

"About Gardenesque" includes info about my business, pictures of my garden, pictures of some of my clients' gardens, and a disclaimer.

The "Newsletter" is updated three times a year — March, June, and September — to help you get ready for working in your garden.

"The Basics" includes design articles, planting and maintenance articles, and a glossary of gardening terms.

Plant information is under the menu heading "Plants for Clay Soil". The plant lists of new plants for each year are under the menu heading "New Plant Lists".

"Other Garden Things" has pages about wildlife (attracting birds and butterflies, etc.), technology (website links and articles about special websites such as Garden Gate), local and mail order nurseries, and my articles on gardens to visit in the area.

For you convenience there is a small navigation menu at the bottom of each page which allows you to contact me by email and to move to some of the main headings.

What I Do . . .

Gardenesque helps you visualize and develop your garden dreams in two ways:

• by providing affordable and quality residential landscape and garden designs using both exotic and native plant material appropriate for the site, or
• by providing a two-hour consultation at a reasonable price where we discuss fresh approaches to designing the garden.

The geographic area covered by Gardenesque is Harford County in the State of Maryland and nearby areas of Baltimore County and Cecil County. For more detailed information on what I do, click "About Gardenesque" in the Table of Contents.

To discuss your project with Carole Novak of Gardenesque, click on the Email button below.