• The Schweppes: a Dramatic Makeover for a 100-Year-Old Home

    Many of the projects we've written about here have been newly constructed homes in need of some inventive landscaping and stonework to really set them apart from [...]

  • Earth Day: We’ve come a long way, baby

    Back in 1970, a U.S. Senator named Gaylord Nelson started a movement. Inspired in part by the rebellious, youthful spirit of the antiwar activists and [...]

  • How To Prepare for Spring In New York and Connecticut

    Is it just us, or was Punxsutawney Phil a little confused on Groundhog Day? Mr. “Six More Weeks of Winter” must have been hibernating during [...]

  • A New York State of Mind: The Tynan Residence

    It's easy to see Matt Tynan is a guy who knows what he wants — and he isn't afraid to ask for it. We'd worked [...]

  • What Inspires Us: The Color Green

    St.Patrick's Day is Saturday and spring is right around the corner. What other color could we possibly be thinking about this time of year? We've [...]

  • The Boykens: Realizing the Dream of a Pool

    In honor of the latest addition to the suite of services, Neave Group Outdoor Solutions offers, our newly unveiled swimming pool division, this month’s project [...]

  • Come on in! The water’s fine!

    With New York temperatures still far below balmy beach weather, and most people's skin still so pale that its glow long outshines any memory of [...]

  • The Larsens: A Landscape Fit for an Active Family

    We first met the Larsens in the middle of 2010 when they hired us to transform their bland front yard and backyard into something a [...]

  • Budding Inspiration: Get Ready for May…in January

    We've barely gotten used to writing "2012" in our checkbooks, but Neave Group’s landscape design staff is already hard at work with many of our [...]

  • The Greenberg Project: Fun for the Whole Family

    The basketball court fits snugly into the backyard landscape The Greenberg family hired Neave Group back in fall 2010 to create an outdoor [...]

  • Dressing Your Home for the Holidays

    Haul out the holly... There are just a few days left before Christmas. Are you in the spirit yet? And more importantly, is your house? [...]

  • What Inspires Us: Christmas Decorating Ideas from Detroit Garden Works

    Detroit Garden Works is a fabulous one-of-a-kind garden store with a constantly evolving collection of fine garden containers, furnishings, accessories, ornament and sculpture. The unique store [...]

  • A Value Comparison (or, How Hiring a Snow & Ice Professional is Like Buying a New Car)

    Post written by Mark Ciccarelli, manager of Neave Group’s snow and ice management department. This time of the season is the absolute worst for a [...]

  • A Long, Beautiful Walk Home: the O’Keefe Project

    Because it's Thanksgiving week and the 2011 holiday season has kicked off in earnest, we thought it would be nice to focus on a couple [...]

  • 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 [...]