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With Memorial Day came the unofficial start of summer, and the perfect weather had most of us finding every excuse possible to be outdoors. However, when a homeowner in Horsham made their way to their backyard, they decided they had finally had enough of their drab and useless patio design. They were stuck with poured […]

For years, our client has been living with a drainage swale in their backyard to help with stormwater management. Before the adjacent house was built a few years back, the swale was dry for a good portion of the year. However, with the new house causing increased runoff, and the heavy rains we’ve had so […]

I don’t know where the time has gone. In May, our oldest son Andrew Garrett Sykes will be graduating from FIU with a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture; he was three when we took his middle name and made it half of our logo. On March 10th our youngest son Sumner ChurchillSykes will be celebrating his 21st birthday; […]

Time (and the elements) take their toll on your hardscape. That fact is inevitable. What you can do is tend to the damage before it becomes an eyesore, or a safety hazard. One of Garrett Churchill’s clients asked us to take a look at their rather sad-looking front landing in front of their beautiful Ambler home. After […]

If you have mature trees on your property, we can’t say enough about the effect that downlighting will create. With a good quality LED lamp in a 3,000 or higher kelvin temperature, you can create a soft light on the ground plane, casting shadows from the tree branches and mimicking actual moonlight. Downlighting Maintenance, Then […]