Matthew R. Copp, ASLA, Landscape Architect

07/31/2025

Recently completed the landscape design and installation for this pedestrian plaza outside the B.D. Hill Company offices in Silo Square in Southaven, Mississippi.

A minimalist clean, classic design using green velvet boxwoods, soft touch hollies, and emerald green arborvitae , and white-blooming gumpo azaleas, hydrangeas, Ice Cap roses, Natchez Crape Myrtles, and Fringe trees for year around enjoyment by visitors to Silo Square.

Looking forward to seeing this pedestrian plaza mature in the coming seasons!



Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

07/29/2025

Green lawn yesterday? Brown lawn today? Your lawn may have an infestation of fall army worms.

Fall army worms can eat a lawn in a very short amount of time! If you see worms in the grass eating grass blades down to the thatch layer, check to see if there is an inverted "y" on the head of the worm. Inverted "y" = army worm.

PRO TIP: not immediately seeing damage, but seeing birds feeding in your lawn? Take a close look as sometimes lawns experience small infestations that have not manifested into a brown, dead lawn appearance.

If you have found army worms in your lawn, spray the lawn with an insecticide with the active ingredient Permethrin such as Hi-Yield's 38 Special. Follow manufacturer's label for application rates.



Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

07/26/2025

From public parks to single family subdivisions, office parks to retail lifestyle shopping centers, educational campus planning to multi-family housing developments, or resort design to a private residence design, landscape architects play a vital role in the accessible, equitable, and safe design of BOTH public and private spaces used by all people.

Considering a project? Contact me and let's discuss your project!

Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

07/25/2025

Throwback Thursday to a landscape design and install from the spring of 2024 on this new custom house in Hernando, Mississippi! The landscape is growing in nicely and looking forward to seeing this landscape mature in the coming years!

Building a new house or renovating an existing house? I'd welcome the opportunity to speak with you about giving your home curb appeal!



Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

07/23/2025

Bag worms are beginning to show up in landscapes in the Mid-South region!

Are your arborvitaes or junipers turning "brown"? Your trees or shrubs may have a bag worm infestation.

If you see bags hanging or worms crawling on tree branches and needles, you should you treat all arborvitaes and junipers as follows - 1. Spray plant materials with an insecticide with active ingredient Permethrin such as Hi-Yield 38 Special, and 2. treat plants with a systemic insecticide with active ingredient Acephate such as Bonide Systemic Insect Control. Follow manufacturer's label instructions for application rates.



Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

07/21/2025

Hot summer days call for a pool to cool off in surrounded by lush landscaping!

Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

06/10/2025

TUESDAY TIP ! As we transition from a wet spring and enter the hotter, dryer summer months, this would be a great time to check and make adjustments your irrigation watering schedules.

4 Quick tips!

1. Install a rain sensor on your irrigation system if you do not have one. Why? Prevents overwatering by an irrigation system if there's been rain showers in your landscape.
2. Check the soil moisture in different areas of your landscape. Too dry? Add time to an individual zone. Too wet? Reduce time to an individual zone.
3. Skip a day (or two) between watering. This allows your landscape to absorb water and dry between waterings. This cycle also encourages deep root growth.
4. Utilize your irrigation controller's Seasonal Adjust function to quickly add or subtract time to the established irrigation schedule based on current precipitation patterns in your area.

Pro Tip! - Sync irrigation schedule with your lawn mowing schedule to prevent damage to turf areas by mowers. Avoid watering day before and day of regularly scheduled mowing day.

Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

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06/10/2025

Design and installation wrapped up on this modern styled house in Hernando, Mississippi! A simple plant palette of native plants were used for foundation plantings - Fringe tree, Itea, Heavy Metal Switch Grass, Everest Carex grass, coneflowers, Strongbox Holly (Inkberry), and St. Johns Wort. Black Gums and Oak species were planted around the yard. Looking forward to seeing this great landscape grow in the coming years!

Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

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05/24/2025

05/17/2025

Landscape design and install recently completed for the Great Homes Design Center in Collierville, Tennessee. A simple, modern design utilizing different types of ornamental grasses - , , and

Let me design your Outdoor Space! Contact me today!
Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053 AR 712066
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

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11/29/2024

On this day of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for my clients, completed work, and work in-progress. Thank you for the opportunity to work with you during this past year!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

With gratitude,

Matthew Copp, PLA, ASLA - Landscape Architect MS 532 TN 1053
Quality Landscape & Garden Center
Call / text: 901-268-7129
Email: [email protected]

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08/22/2024

American Beautyberry is a great plant! I enjoy incorporating this plant into planting designs!

Mississippi native plant Callicarpa americana is also known commonly and affectionately as the American beautyberry! This plant is commonly found along the edges of woodlands/wild areas and was named a Mississippi Medallion winner for 2020.

This deciduous shrub starts the year off as a leafless wallflower. New growth starts pushing out in midspring and joins the green background while gardeners are planting and enjoying all the colorful annuals. Even when beautyberry flowers, it is overshadowed. The flowers are produced in the leaf axils, and you really have to look closely to appreciate the delicate, pale-pink flowers.

American beautyberry produces bright magenta-purple berries in tight clusters that are held right on and all around the stems. Berries displayed along the arching stems of the straight species draw the most attention. Some plants have such prolific berry production that it seems the leaves are growing out of the clusters.

Left to its own devices, American beautyberry will easily grow to at least 5 feet tall and wide. This size, along with its loose and open growing habit, can make the plant look just a bit unruly for most landscapes.

To keep beautyberry looking tidy and good, prune it back in the early spring. Prune back to about 6 inches to encourage the new growth to be fuller and more compact. But you have to do this every year to maintain an ordered appearance.

This shrub will grow in most landscape soil conditions, and it tolerates drought, but for best growth, maintain consistent soil moisture. Look for planting areas that provide afternoon shade. While beautyberry can grow in full sun, it produces more berries when there is some protection from the afternoon heat load.