GRAFTING
Grafting It’s a quieter time of year in the garden, and a good [...]
SCREEN ALTERNATIVE
Screen Alternative Landscapes Happy 2022 everyone! Alright, anybody else out there have the [...]
THE WINTER GARDEN
The Winter Garden Here in the Bay Area, we enjoy a climate that [...]
DESIGN PROCESS: OVERSIGHT
Design Process Part 3: Design Oversight Services Construction of a landscape is a lot of [...]
DESIGN PROCESS: CD SET
Design Process Part 2: Construction Documents & Details Once we finalize a Conceptual [...]
DESIGN PROCESS: CLP
Design Process Part 1: Client Connection & Creative Design When we set out [...]
Landscape Lighting
Landscape Lighting Early evenings always seem to surprise! You'd think we'd be used to [...]
Plant Focus: Phormiums
Plant Focus: Phormiums There are so many things to love about this time [...]
Fall Garden Close Up
Fall Garden Close-Up: Seeds, Roots, & Bulbs This time of year, it may [...]
Mission Revival Landscapes
Mission Revival Landscapes California architecture has a long and complex history, from Victorian [...]
CLIMATE ZONES 101
CLIMATE ZONES 101 If you buy plants in nurseries or research garden ideas [...]
Abstracting The Landscape
Abstracting The Landscape “I don’t get it.” Is probably the most commonly-used phrase [...]
DESIGN ON A BUDGET
DESIGN ON A BUDGET So you’ve decided you want to make some changes to your [...]
Diablo Magazine’s Best of 2021!
Diablo Magazine’s Best of 2021! We are extremely honored to win Diablo Magazine’s [...]
Color In The Garden
COLOR IN THE GARDEN Color is an incredibly powerful element in any form of design. [...]
Quality Outdoor Cooking
Quality Outdoor Cooking Nothing says summer like making dinner outdoors, whether you’re firing [...]
Low-Water Gardening
LOW-WATER, HIGH-FASHION GARDENING Alright, it is now officially hot. We’re feeling it, and [...]
The Night Garden
The Night Garden It’s easy to imagine a landscape only by the light of the [...]
Design Details: Carpentry
Design Details: Carpentry We always have an intention in mind for our designed [...]
BEST NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRM
Build Magazine Awards: We are thrilled to announce that J.Montgomery Designs has been named [...]
Flowering Vines for Spring
Flowering Vines For Spring Twining gracefully up a trellis or covering an [...]
Emotion In The Landscape
Emotion In The Landscape We ask ourselves many question when designing Outdoor Living [...]
FEEDING YOUR PLANTS
Feeding Your Plants When you walk down the aisle in the garden shop, [...]
Spring Celebration
Spring Celebration Can you feel it? Spring is in the air! As designers of [...]
An Innovative Approach
An Innovative Approach: Landscaping the Sunset House of Innovation When the owners of [...]
What We Love
What We Love It’s the season of love, and like every year we [...]
INDOOR/OUTDOOR SPACES
Indoor/Outdoor Spaces Few things speak to the California lifestyle like being outdoors. Even [...]
KNOW YOUR PROPERTY
Knowing Your Property 101 How much do you know about where you live? [...]
Trendspotting 2021
Trendspotting 2021 We won’t be the first to express excitement about leaving 2020 [...]
Winter Décor From the Garden
Winter Décor From the Garden Every year around this time, we love bringing [...]
Featured On Houzz
Featured on Houzz: Houzz contributing writer Lauren Dunec Hoang features J.Montgomery Designs in her [...]
Landscape Topography
Landscape Topography (And How to Design With It) Does anybody recognize our own [...]
Featured On Houzz
Featured On Houzz: Houzz contributing writer Jeanne Taylor features J. Montgomery Designs in her article, '8 [...]
Historic Landscapes
Link to the Past - Local Historic Landscapes Northern California is a treasure [...]
Fall Leaf Potential
FALL LEAF POTENTIAL This time of year, we are easily reminded why this season is [...]
Traditional Style
Traditional Landscape Architecture We like to think we’re at least sort of worldly, [...]
Deer-Resistant Plantings
Oh, Deer… Deer-Resistant Plantings Beautiful and graceful deer are a gem of Northern California’s wildlife, [...]
Autumn Celebration
Autumn Celebration With cooler mornings and shorter days comes the feeling of Fall in [...]
Pathways In The Landscape
Pathways In The Landscape In a landscape of any scale, the experience of moving through [...]
FEATURED ON REDFIN
Featured on Redfin: If we've come to learn anything throughout this quarantine, it's [...]
