Article alert: OES co-owner, Angelica Norton, chats with Pro Landscaper USA
Click the window below to read Laura Lee's interview with Angelica. We're excited to see this magazine in-print next spring!
Everything You Need to Know about a Chlorine Stock Tank Pool
If a pool just doesn't fit in your budget or your yard, a stock tank pool is such a fun solution for kids (and adults) to dip into a coo
Protecting Plants Against a Freeze
Most native plants will tolerate a light frost once they have become established (about a year after installation). If you have newly installed plants, you will want to protect your plants in a hard freeze. Even native and adapted plants could even be affected by temps below 32 degrees. Signs of freeze damage are: tender new growth and even evergreen leaves will wilt and turn brown. (The plant in the above image is a phenomenon called a frost flower , when the sap of a pl
Open Envelope Studio on We Are Austin
Matt and Angelica Norton were on the lifestyle show We Are Austin to talk about Blanket Fort , one of the ten Fortlandia featured forts at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for the first competition held in 2018. The Wildflower Center was promoting Winter Festival, an upcoming event, that allowed park goers to talk to designers at one of the final weekends of the exhibit. The live show aired on Jan. 17, 2019. We are so excited that Blanket Fort won the people's cho
100 Built Projects
This video shows the first 100 built projects (spanning from 2012-2018) for Open Envelope Studio in Austin, TX. Thanks to our clients for t
Blanket Fort at Fortlandia
The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center held a design competition for 10 forts to be exhibited in their arboretum from September 2018 to...
Featured in Austin Home Magazine: Krajcer Residence
In the Summer 2018 issue of Austin Home Magazine, Matt and I were interviewed about the landscape design and build at Krajcer Residence. ...
Featured in Austin Home Magazine: Buck Residence
In the Winter 2017 issue of Austin Home Magazine, Matt and I were interviewed about the landscape design and build at Buck Residence. ...
Butterfly Garden at Blackshear Elementary
Blackshear Elementary Fine Arts Academy assigned a group of first and second grade teachers to a Monarch Team to create an outdoor...
December 2016: We're Celebrating 5 years!
5 years ago, Matt and I started OES with one employee - our longtime project manager, Shawn Latta. A few weeks after we put all of our...
