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Gentle Gardener Green DesignStop Mowing (that is, SCALPING) Steep Slopes!
photo copyright 2015 Virginia Rockwell
Peabody Landscape GroupThe mesmerizing fire feature was our pièce de résistance. It was the heart of our design, ensuring that "Tranquil Heights" would shine, especially under the starlit Hilliard sky.
StoneworxWe created a warm inviting entrance from the driveway to the front door. A proper landing, front steps, and seating area (far side of landing) were installed to create an inviting nook with nature. The walkway and landscaping were the final key pieces to this transformation.
Iconlux - Landscape LightingThis border light does a good job throwing a pool of light in the in the garden. The hedge has been cross-lit with spike lights to give texture and colour.
Dig Your Garden Landscape DesignThis contemporary landscape was completely transformed with bluestone patios, pathways and stairways; stucco covered retaining walls, horizontal redwood fencing, drought-tolerant trees and other plantings along with low-voltage lighting and other accents. The back yard areas also include a small artificial turf lawn and cable railing. Photos and Design © Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Design.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA client in the Heights contracted Exterior Worlds to create an Italian garden with a number of complimentary, classical elements to the front and rear of their home. Their house had a classic Old World appearance to it. It was a two-story structure with a porch and an upstairs balcony. Steps led up to the porch, and shuttered windows with arched tops lined both the porch and the balcony. A stately, old, and very large oak tree grew just next to the house, reaching up and over the top of the house. The architecture and indigenous landscape were an ideal setting to further develop a European look and feel to the property.
We began by installing lights in the trees next to the home in order to illuminate the roof and balcony, and we placed lights under the eaves of the porch and patio to illuminate the surfaces, walls, and windows. We planted a small Italian garden in the front near the trees. In it, we placed a variety of ground cover plant species, shrubbery, and smaller, ornamental trees. This lent an organic sense to a very symmetrical and elegant structure, and helped develop the Classical theme we were asked to create. We completed the design in the front with urns placed on either side of the stairs that led up to the front door. This worked to create a sense of grand entryway that alluded to a sense of Roman antiquity and classical design.
The home had been built toward the front of the lot, so the majority of the property lay behind the house. This provided a great deal of room to develop an Italian garden with a number of functional and aesthetic elements that fit the lifestyles of the owners. The first thing we designed for them was a planter, shaped like a small wall, which surrounded the rear perimeter of the home. This provided a casual seating area for the home owners that they use as an overlook point to appreciate the scenery beyond. In the morning they could sit outside and watch the sunrise while they drank coffee and talked, or comfortably recline while they read the paper.
Just a few feet from this planter, we built a water fountain. We designed it as a rectangle to continue the movement of the house, because all Italian gardens are intended to follow the linear movement of architecture and maintain a sense of order and proportion throughout their continuity. Although the fountain featured very simple and compact proportions, we made it look much more dramatic and prominent by installing four water jets and 4 underwater lights to draw attention to it in the dark.
Around the fountain we then laid down a paver patio using a blend of hardscape and softscape paving. This blended construction made the patio appear to be fading into the grass, and caused the patio and surrounding gardens to look more classically Italian. The patio was surrounded by bull nose coping and sloped slightly toward the planter walls, which were built with unseen, 1-inch drain channel to provide a convenient and unobtrusive means of water runoff. We then filled the space around the new patio and planter with an Italian garden featuring cypress and decorative handmade pottery.
At the far end of the property, we completed our project with an arbor that functioned as a destination for outdoor entertainment and a terminus for the Italian garden design. The garden arbor was built on a limestone patio, and was constructed out of Permacast columns and a cedar top. We installed a ceiling fan within the arbor, and decorated the patio with tables and chairs to provide a comfortable gathering place for visiting guests.
One very unique feature was also added to this arbor to complete its design. This final piece was a mirror built to look like a window. Because the property bordered a commercial lot that had a rather unattractive building on it, we wanted to create a sense of enclosure and provide a focal point that would draw the eye away from the eyesore behind the arbor. A mirror proved much more useful for this purpose, because it both blocked the view of the building, and it magnified the apparent size of the Italian garden, fountain, planter, and rear of the home.
ARCADIA GARDEN Ландшафтная СтудияОсобенностью этого поместья, площадью около 2 Га, является разделение главным домом на две половины- очень густую лесную часть со статными еловыми великанами и открытую солнечную. В выборе сценария мы отталкивались от интерьерных пристрастий хозяев и архитектурного облика дома и остановились на сбалансированном сочетании формальных архитектурных элементов, поддержанных стрижеными бордюрами с большими массивами природного силуэта, состоящими из цветущих кустарников, хвойных и многолетников. Эта концепция оптимально отражает идею открытости, безграничности, перетекания зон пространства, близкую архитектуре Райта с большими площадями газонов и удобным передвижением по участку. Плотно сотрудничая с архитекторами и взяв за основу предложенную конфигурацию широкого кругового въезда, мы постарались воплотить пожелания заказчиков, создали сбаллансированные хвойные и лиственные массивы, тонко подобрав цветовую гамму посадок и мощения к отделке дома, с душой отнеслись к идее подсветки елей, из окон гостиной они смотрятся абсолютно фантастически. Главный вход акцентируют стриженные эффектно подсвеченные боярышники с изысканным ветвлением, они оптимально поддерживают архитектуру и добавляют объем, не затеняя окон. Двухъярусная посадка сосен и тсуг по въездному забору дает чувство полной приватности. Пихты выполняют двойную роль- рождественских деревьев и плотной природной ширмы. Праздник красок в саду начинается с раннего цветения пролески, нарциссов, декоративных луков и продолжается весь сезон.
Архитектура дома и интерьеры: Архитектурная студия Нины Прудниковой
Фото: Диана ДубовицкаяARCADIA GARDEN LANDSCAPE STUDIO Ландшафтный дизайн
фото Диана Дубовицкая
Erik Jones LandscapingBottom pond at Night Lit Up with Underwater Lights! Trees lit up as well!
Erik Jones
Mr StackyMetal raised garden beds in in the backyard growing flowers and herbs. Added Mr Stacky planter to add the vertical look.
Austin Ganim Landscape Design, LLCCaryopteris softens the seatwall, Westport, CT.
Austin Ganim Landscape Design, LLC
Creative Outdoor SpacesConstructing a new brick walkway solved the design objective of replacing the cracking steps. The new wider walk flanked by brick piers created a more inviting front door access off the quaint city sidewalk. The boulder outcroppings provided a natural look to retaining the steep front yard slope.
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