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 [...]
AWARDED: BEST LANDSCAPE ARCH. 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 [...]
Landscaping the Sunset House of Innovation
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 [...]
Roses in the Landscape
Roses In The Landscape As Landscape Architects, the plants we incorporate into our designed [...]
Landscape Lighting
Landscape Lighting As the weather warms up here in the Bay, we have the [...]
Planting Under Oaks
Planting Under Oaks Of the many icons of the Northern California landscape, the [...]
Contemporary Elements
Contemporary Elements We are always excited about new things, especially when they relate [...]
NOTES FROM THE GARDEN
Notes From The Garden The J. Montgomery Studio Garden is more than just a [...]
Dining “Out”
Dining "Out" Staying home has been alright, but we really miss some of [...]
Transitional & Timeless
Transitional & Timeless “The only constant in life is change” – Heraclitus (circa [...]
Home Vegetable Garden DIY
HOME-GROWN GROCERIES It’s the season to grow, and in spite of quarantine we [...]
