It is easy to see why. From a wide terrace spanning multiple rooms in their red brick ranch home in Des Peres, two staircases descend to a jewel-like swimming pool that glitters sapphire blue. Although the space is small, it is picture-perfect. Stands of columnar DeGroot’s Spire and Emerald Green arborvitae, interspersed with burning bush for fall color, provide a buffer from neighboring property. Graceful, billowing Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass and pyramid-like Golden Threadleaf false cypress soften a wooden privacy fence.

Low-maintenance beauty: Sango Kaku won’t require much work! Mulch will help retain moisture and keep the roots cool. The plant needs little pruning, but if you do opt to prune your plant, avoid doing so in spring when the sap is running.

The homeowner’s driving directions could not be more simple. To discover Top of the Hill Farm, you just keep going. Down the one-lane road, past every turn-off. When you can go no farther, you have arrived.

Nestled within an expansive neighborhood backed by the beautiful rolling hills of Wildwood, MO, Betsy and Tom Meier’s home is tucked into a giant hillside full of mature hardwood trees that tower over their back yard like an amphitheater. Their landscape begged for a waterfall, and that’s precisely why garden designers Caleb Bauer and his brother Josh were there. Owners of Bauer Falls, a St.

For a BIG birthday, many women would long for some bling or a trip to an exotic locale. This Town and Country homeowner requested some rocks of a different kind. Specifically, she wanted a rocky waterfall, more water in her backyard pond and more fish.

From the time she began interning at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1974 until she retired two years ago after 20 years as the head of the Garden’s Kemper Center for Home Gardening, June Hutson has been tending plants, loving them and keeping them healthy.