After a wet winter, one of the challenges this spring will be to enjoy your garden and get the outside work done with as little mud on your shoes as possible.

Among our responses to this challenge is the addition of garden paths to the wet areas of your garden. Pathways allow you to access more of your garden. If installed with careful attention to design, drainage, and materials, they can also add value and interest to your property.

Designing a pathway that is both functional and elegant is key. Perhaps we can help you get from point A to point B with ease . . . and dry feet? Give us a call: 717-653-1273. We’d love to explore “next steps” with you!

–Contributed by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& explorer of hidden paths)

Spring–just ahead in the calendar–is a time of resurrection and celebration, when new life and joy burst forth in every corner of the garden! What brings you the most joy in your springtime garden? Feel free to share your favorite springtime delights in the comments below

At Hanselman Landscape, we build gardens that bring joy to their owners in every season of the year. The photos below are a few examples of springtime beauty in several of the gardens we’ve built and care for . . . .

Would you like to add some all-season delights to the garden rooms outside your walls? If so, give us a call! We’d love to partner with you to bring your dreams to life all year long!

Shared with joy by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& spring garden celebrant)

Do your daydreams this year include quiet spaces for rest, reading, and reflection? The refreshment of a mountain stream or splashing waterfall? Or towering Redwoods and wildflower meadows? A place where you can get away?

Bring us your ideas and inspirations. Together, we can turn your daydreams into everyday experiences, so that you can escape from the day-to-day hustle and hassles to your own secret garden!

Invitation joyfully extended by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& frequent dream ‘scaper)

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey (American horticulturalist; 1858-1954)

When spring arrives, will the rush of garden tasks overwhelm you? We invite you to consider consider a garden maintenance contract with us, so that your plants thrive with regular check ups and care throughout the year from our team of skilled plant care professionals.

Shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife

In a garden, winter is anything but boring! Whether there is a lot of snow, a dusting of snow, or no snow at all, there is always something to discover!

What are you discovering in your winter garden this year, maybe for the first time?

This year, for the first time, I am seeing what appear to be whole families of Bluebirds at the feeder! Several years ago, my husband brought home a Bluebird feeder and filled it with dead worms (yes, really!). At the beginning, I would occasionally see one or two on or in the feeder during the warmer months of the year. Now, only a year or two later, I often look out of my office window on a cold but sunny winter day and see five or six fluttering around, fussing to get inside the feeder! What a joy!

Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& winter Bluebird host!)

“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.”

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey American horticulturalist and reformer; 1858 – 1954)

While a swimming pool garden like the one pictured below cannot, of course, be installed in winter in our climate, it can be dreamt about and planned in winter. In fact, we recommend it! If the planning stage is well underway in the winter, groundbreaking for the project can begin when the soil and garden installers are ready and the chances for enjoying the garden in summer with family and friends increase. Call us if you have been dreaming of a summer garden this winter and want to get started! We can dream by the fire with you . . . . and face unafraid the plans that we make together.

Contributed by Betty Hanselman

Gardener’s wife (& fireside garden dreamer)