East Haddam, CT, where the yard and nursery sit on Norwich Salem Road, and out along the shoreline through Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Chester, Westbrook, Niantic and Stonington.
About Novak Brothers Landscaping
Dusk on Norwich Salem Road: the old stone walls go blue in the treeline, and somewhere a garden comes on one lantern at a time. Novak Brothers Landscaping builds that kind of evening — landscape design and construction, stone walls, patios and walkways, cobblestone and paver driveways, pergolas, trellises and arbors, and outdoor lighting in cedar post, copper or gas. Their maintenance year reads like East Haddam weather itself: spring cleanups, bed edging and mulching, then hydroseeding, sodding, spot seeding and slice seeding through the mowing months, then leaf removal, tree cabling and stump grinding, then plowing, sanding and salting after a nor'easter. Ornamental and specimen plantings go in with an eye to what will actually thrive on a given slope, and container gardens get replanted as the color turns. Masons, plantsmen, arborists and agronomists all work off the same schedule here, which is why a property they keep holds together at every hour of the day.