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We were so excited to have three projects as finalists in the Austin Home Magazine's Home & Design Awards. They were: Best Flexible...

Whether you're a devotee of the Texas sun or one of its withering victims, there's one cardinal rule for summer gardening here: your fall...

Now that spring has nearly sprung, it's time to celebrate your garden's potential for the coming year. If you have plants that suffered...

What to expect going through the Design process, starting with Consultation and going all the way through Build.

In this post, we share our 17 favorite potted friends. (And stay tuned for a succulent edition!) Even though we spend most of our time...

What a year! Trips were cancelled, school was online, and employees worked remotely. So many families spent more time at home and in...

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

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

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

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