10 06, 2024

Pollinator Landscapes

By |2024-06-18T17:24:22-07:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: Plants! Plants! Plants!|

Pollinator Landscaping There has been a lot more attention paid in recent years to the importance of pollinators and what we can do as designers, gardeners and homeowners to protect them.  Pollinators are crucial to human quality-of-life on earth, so we happen to care a lot about their well-being!  Learning about [...]

23 01, 2024

Flower Cutting Gardens

By |2024-01-25T15:22:16-08:00January 23rd, 2024|Categories: Plants! Plants! Plants!|

Flower-Cutting Gardens A garden can serve many purposes.  It can be a place of beauty and contemplative relaxation, a draw for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife, and a productive space for growing food and flowers.  With Valentine's Day around the corner, we couldn’t help but write about flowers, the time-honored traditional [...]

24 01, 2023

Roses in the Landscape

By |2024-01-19T04:26:34-08:00January 24th, 2023|Categories: Plants! Plants! Plants!|

Roses In The Landscape As Landscape Architects, the plants we incorporate into our designed spaces are as integral to the experience as our built structures.  We love many plants for their beauty, durability, and long-term performance in the garden, and of course we share our clients’ favorites, among them the [...]

1 08, 2022

Flower-Cutting Gardens

By |2024-01-19T04:26:58-08:00August 1st, 2022|Categories: Plants! Plants! Plants!|

Flower Cutting Gardens Photography by: Sarah Cosca A garden can serve many purposes.  It can be a place of beauty and contemplative relaxation, a draw for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife, and a productive space for growing food and flowers.  If you’d like to create a garden perfect for flower-cutting, [...]

11 04, 2022

Design With Native Plants

By |2024-01-19T04:27:02-08:00April 11th, 2022|Categories: Landscape Design, Plants! Plants! Plants!|

DESIGN WITH NATIVE PLANTS Introducing Native plants to the landscape is a trend that is becoming more popular as awareness of climate change and natural ecosystem preservation increases.  As a firm dedicated to the best in design in California and beyond, we are increasingly using the plants native to the areas in which [...]

14 03, 2022

J.Montgomery Studio Garden

By |2024-01-19T04:27:03-08:00March 14th, 2022|Categories: Plants! Plants! Plants!|

J. Montgomery Studio Garden Here at J. Montgomery, we are celebrating the 30 year anniversary of our Studio Garden! To us, it is so much more than just a beautiful landscape. We have played, worked, and sweated in every square inch of our outdoor paradise! (Sorry if that’s Too Much Information.) [...]