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Landscape Design Services

Heal Earth Gardens means beautiful gardens that function ecologically.  Heal Earth Gardens offers holistic designs featuring native plants.  Native plants of the Mid-Atlantic region provide a diverse and extensive palette which is unfamiliar to most landscapers.  At Heal Earth gardens, a wealth of plant knowledge goes into every design.

Careful, customized, plant selection results in landscapes that are easy-care and easy on the environment.  Each project has unique features.  For example, three gardens for a High School all featured the school’s colors.

Conservation designs mean less watering, fertilizers, or pesticides are needed.  These are multi-functional landscapes providing wildlife habitat, multi-season beauty, erosion control, improved infiltration, stormwater cleansing, and outdoor classrooms.

We specialize in dealing with tough assignments like steep hillsides, dry shade, or soggy ground.  If you want to do your own design, we can prepare a plant palette tailored to your property.  We can also facilitate a group design process for schools, communities, or organizations.

Writing and Editing Services

Heal Earth Gardens offers technical, educational, and organizational writing/editing services.  Carole Ann Barth, owner and principal, has written articles for the Watershed Protection Techniques Journal as well as compiling the Bioretention Plant List for Prince George’s County.

Educational pieces include bill inserts, articles, fact sheets, field worksheets, and citizen handbooks.  Products range from general interest treatments of nature, gardening, and environmental issues to detailed White Papers and booklets like the Citizen’s Guide to the Clean Water Act.

Organizational communication services include press releases, grants writing, annual reports, and newsletters.  For example, Barth created and produced the monthly newsletter, Chesapeake River Report.

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