• Be Ready for THE BIG ONE

    Currier & Ives were lucky not to live in today’s age of rapid climate change…I’m not sure they would have been as successful printing lithographs [...]

  • What Inspires Us: The Colors of Thanksgiving

    photo credits (in no particular order): osage oranges, burlap pots, burlap tablecloth, wood table and bench, pumpkins and squash, pumpkins, leaves and gourds, hay bales, candy corn, fall colors, maroon flowers, maroon sunflower, Hokie Wedding, Indian corn, Japanese Maple, red [...]

  • Landscapes Need Friends Too

    Remember the project feature we did on the Munoz’ landscape? Well, at the end of that post, we told you about the home next door that [...]

  • Christmas Decorating Tips (Yup…it’s almost here!)

    It’s lurking in the dark corners of your local department stores. It’s hiding in your recipe box. It looms on the pages of your calendar. [...]

  • The Trigger

    This post was written by Mark Ciccarelli, Vice President of Operations for Neave Group Outdoor Solutions Mark Ciccarelli in action…kind of Now that our greatly [...]

  • Frank Lloyd Wright Meets the Seven Dwarfs

    We’re big fans of word-of-mouth marketing. Our social media efforts these days are a higher-tech attempt at the good, old-fashioned neighbor-to-neighbor approach. Nothing beats one [...]

  • What Inspires Us: Scenes from Central Park

    Places and experiences inspire our design work like nothing else. Where better to search for inspiration than Central Park? The Big Picture Source: google.com via [...]

  • A Deceptively Simple Pool Area for a Home and Landscape in Garrison, New York

    You might remember that in our last featured project, the landscape design was anchored by a large swimming pool. Well, this landscape project in Garrison, New [...]

  • What Inspires Us: Espalier

    Espalier is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth by pruning and tying branches so that they grow in relatively flat [...]

  • Making History in Croton-on-Hudson

    Every landscape client is important at Neave, and every project is an opportunity for us to shine. But when your client is the CEO’s next-door [...]

  • What Inspires Us: The Red, White, and Blue

    Where better to turn for inspiration than the red, white, and blue of our American flag? At Neave Group, we turn inspirations into beautiful outdoor [...]

  • Mixing Business and Friendship

    As a business owner, this is a question that I have come full circle on over the years. My answer is this: Sometimes My reason [...]

  • Cooking Up Something Great with the Culinary Institute of America

    Back in 2005, a local newspaper ran a story about Neave Group and the work we’d done creating water features for our clients. Talk about [...]

  • Down and Dirty Retaining Wall Replacement in Norwalk, CT

    Our clients in Norwalk, CT called Neave Group Outdoor Solutions because their concrete block retaining wall in their backyard had collapsed over the winter. Their [...]

  • What Inspires Us: Spheres in the Landscape

    I love the perfect geometry that spherical forms lend to a garden--the contrast of carved stone spheres set amongst a tangle of sprawling perennials, the [...]

  • Details: Pergolas

    Proper pronunciation aside, what exactly is a pergola? According to Wikipedia (and slightly modified by yours truly): A pergola is a garden structure forming a [...]

  • March for Babies draws more than 1,000 participants…including part of the Neave Group team!

    More than 1,000 people turned out for this morning's March of Dimes March for Babies at the Walkway Over the Hudson. The march stepped off [...]

  • Making Memories Outside

    For my first official blog, I thought I would write about something I have re-learned over the last year or so: How great it is to [...]

  • What Inspires Us: Stone Steps

    I know, so not New York. But still inspiring. Which is your favorite? I’ve got to go with #7–imagine stepping stones like that across a [...]