Anthony Dufour Gardens

Anthony Dufour Gardens Landscape Design, Landscape Architecture & Tree Preservation, Stone Masonry We design, build and maintain gardens that delight, inspire and endure.

Fall is for planting! I'll be back teaching at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania on Satu...
09/02/2026

Fall is for planting! I'll be back teaching at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, September 26 at 10am. Want to learn how to plant a tree? No fear! While my lecture is geared towards pros, I promise you that I can teach a novice. All you need is an appreciation of trees. That said, proper planting is essential to one the most important pieces of a garden, and frankly, the entire planet. I believe that about 90-95% of trees are either defective or planted incorrectly. This is coming from me... someone trained here at the Morris Arboretum, Longwood Gardens, the Cornell University Urban Horticulture Institute and coupling that with nearly 40 years of hands-on experience. Enjoy the Morris Arboretum and Gardens and grab some lunch in Chestnut Hill! Register here:
https://experience.morrisarboretum.org/Info.aspx?EventID=25

The humidity! 😡 A few images of my own garden as I wrap up my clients' Devon garden and head back down to Pocopson. I...
08/02/2026

The humidity! 😡 A few images of my own garden as I wrap up my clients' Devon garden and head back down to Pocopson. I've use annuals quite a bit this year to create a backyard retreat, as I thought we might not get out on vacation (seems to be the case with two sons in transition).

Honeybees pollinate 87 of 115 critical global food crops. No pollination, no food. First image is of my front yard wit...
07/08/2026

Honeybees pollinate 87 of 115 critical global food crops. No pollination, no food. First image is of my front yard with a predominantly white clover meadow. Low maintenance & pollinator friendly. Second image is across the street with an applicator putting down herbicide or nitrogen during last week’s heatwave. Terrible timing & waste of money. Local turf grasses are ‘cool season’ - Kentucky blue, tall fescue, perennial rye etc. They go dormant in the summer without irrigation (that lawn is not irrigated). We can no longer afford to waste water or nitrogen on lawns! Lawns have the same ecological benefit as parking lots. 😳

Starting to wind down my Devon job. I'll miss working the in the shade of towering oaks next to Jenkins Arboretum! Blu...
07/02/2026

Starting to wind down my Devon job. I'll miss working the in the shade of towering oaks next to Jenkins Arboretum! Bluestone patio, brick walkway and plantings remain, but the most time consuming aspect (stone masonry) is about wrapped up. Images are captioned. Cheers!

Sometimes the best landscape solutions are the simple ones. Here, I advised my clients to create a simple gravel pad fo...
05/20/2026

Sometimes the best landscape solutions are the simple ones. Here, I advised my clients to create a simple gravel pad for equipment access to the barn & steered them away from adding meaningless plantings which I call ‘salad.’ We’ll add a few small sycamore trees for the quintessential barn/springhouse shade in summer. The barn IS the focal point… don’t mess with it!

Earth Day and Arbor Day did not go unnoticed, but happily almost every day I get to try some tiny thing to make our worl...
04/26/2026

Earth Day and Arbor Day did not go unnoticed, but happily almost every day I get to try some tiny thing to make our world a bit better. I'll post on the current landscape installation where I am making huge strides recycling concrete, but in the meantime, enjoy what's going on in my garden. Cheers!
Your quiz questions:
- pollinating viburnums
- layering
- storm damage to multistem river birch
- shrubs with outstanding fall color
- foliage texture
- iron deficiency
Open your blue book, and begin.

Sunday garden notes: Things to think on this spring: 1. Beech leaf disease (BLD) will affect all beeches, native and Eu...
04/19/2026

Sunday garden notes: Things to think on this spring: 1. Beech leaf disease (BLD) will affect all beeches, native and European. Ask your arborist about treatment options if you wish to save yours. 2. Boxwood tree moth, another pest of boxwood on top of blight (and leafminer); here too, ask your arborist. I encourage clients not to overplant any one species, and boxwood has been used as the solution to deer damage (as has cherrylaurel which does now get eaten). 3. Diversify your landscape no matter what pest is coming in (they hitch rides inside those ocean cargo containers) - add new species, add younger plants, and think of ensuring against wind events, hail, insects/diseases, animals (I'm battling rabbits now, more so than deer). 4. Consider whether your privacy plantings need to be static lines of evergreens, or whether you're only looking in that direction in season (versus winter). Images are captioned and not all relevant to your four point lesson here (quiz on Thursday, #2 pencil ONLY!). Cheers,

A nice start to a garden rebuild in Devon. Raised patio edges are/were a terrible idea (think ER visit), as were sub gr...
04/14/2026

A nice start to a garden rebuild in Devon. Raised patio edges are/were a terrible idea (think ER visit), as were sub grade patio lights. Improving surface drainage, privacy, and updating the look with natural stone.

Notes on spring. Images are captioned. Happy April!
04/01/2026

Notes on spring. Images are captioned. Happy April!

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