Although December marks the official end of the year, fall is when we in the landscape field begin to slow down and hibernate - or like a tree, go dormant - for the winter. This is the season when we are wrapping up any remaining construction projects, performing fall clean-ups and completing follow-up details. As we do this, I have been looking back on the past year, the landscaping projects we completed and the unusual weather we had to face!
This landscape season has brought us some of the wildest weather on record: from the long-forgotten drought in July to the record breaking rainfall of August, several hurricanes, an earthquake and the never-before-seen snowstorm in October. It has certainly been a difficult year to work outdoors! Still we have had some wonderful clients and amazing projects, most notably an outdoor fireplace, travertine patio and so many beautiful plantings (especially the creative container gardens, a personal favorite of mine)
As we enter the season of change there are some positive changes taking place here at Martin Shaw, LLC. Some unique opportunities have come our way and we are in the process of deciding how to best incorporate them into our business. We will let you know as soon as the details are ironed out - which, honestly, may be a while yet - but suffice to say we will be offering better (and bigger) ways to communicate with our clients, maybe even the world.....
With so much going on I admit I have not released a newsletter update recently and have shared more blog content than I have written myself lately. I have come to rely pretty heavily on the 400 characters or less allowed on our facebook page and do feel that we have shared some really great information there. Now that the landscape and gardening season - if not all the details - are coming to a close though, you can look forward to some fresh content. Have something you want to know more about? Tell us and we will try to make it a feature of an upcoming post. And if you want to know know what's changing, stayed tuned!
Update: On November 15 this year officially broke the record as being the wettest year.
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