Our passion is creating environments to provide beauty, serenity and a connection to the natural world. The Greensman is a professional and highly creative landscape and garden design company offering planning, installation and full-service, detailed maintenance of perennial borders, water gardens, fountains and large-scape landscapes.
We design with a boutique sensibility, artistically edgy yet tasteful-and sensitive to our clients' desires. Designing residential and commercial, projects include country farm estates, suburban landscapes, vegetable gardens, swimming pool and spa environments, as well as urban condominium courtyards.
We design with a boutique sensibility, artistically edgy yet tasteful-and sensitive to our clients' desires. Designing residential and commercial, projects include country farm estates, suburban landscapes, vegetable gardens, swimming pool and spa environments, as well as urban condominium courtyards.
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Creative director Kristopher Dabner has been bringing imagination and creativity to beautiful gardens in the Kansas City area for 20 years. Some of his designs have been featured in local and national magazines including Kansas City Spaces, Spaces KC, KC Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Midwest Living and HGTV Magazine.
The Greensman worked on this garden for 20 years. The front terrace used to have a giant Oak tree so we removed traditional landscaping and replaced with the oval brick patio with the boxwoods planted in it. There are different ways to walk through the patio, you can access the front door and side doors walking through the boxwoods.
You want to start spring out right, it gets the excitement started to want to be out in your yard. It is bulb heavy if you plan early you can have spring bulbs blooming for up to three months. Starting with crocus and small ephemeral bulbs, moving on to daffodils, tulips, allium, hyacinth, there are a lot of bulbs that are underused.
An entrance sets the tone for the garden and house, it invites people up to the house. It is the first thing your guests see and it is also the first thing you see when you come home. Making it a statement piece with planting or a sculpture or water feature is pleasing.
Having a place to sit near the front is important, if you are waiting for someone to pick you up or if you have a moment to read the paper it is nice to add this as a design element.
Having a place to sit near the front is important, if you are waiting for someone to pick you up or if you have a moment to read the paper it is nice to add this as a design element.
Draws people out to the garden it creates focal point and atmosphere. Weather it is a fire pit or fireplace it extends the season, with a fire you can come to the garden earlier in spring and stay later into the fall. It reminds you of Boy or Girl Scout camp and is a great gathering place for family and friends.
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Angie B.
May 15, 2016
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I had the pleasure of working with James, the designer and Anthony and his crew. Not only am I very pleased with the design, which is exactly what I had in mind, but the organization is remarkable. I had several problems with my irrigation system, as well as my outdoor lighting after the job was completed and paid for. After emailing Barb, the office manager , Anthony was back here and working on a fix. I believe he was here four times, never making me feel as though I was infringing on his time. The finished project took some time, but well worth it. the Greensman are a talented group and I had
