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![Hygge [ hoog-uh ]: Cozy and comforting](https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/7f81fda6012e795c_9330-w360-h360-b0-p0--.jpg)
BE Landscape DesignThe instructions were clear, make it cozy and comforting. Incorporate natural materials, don't hurt the environment, use lots of native plants, create shade, attract bees, butterflies and humming birds. BELandscape design, created a backyard that is an escape for this hard working couple. Scroll to the 'Before' photos to fully appreciate this backyard transformation.
FormLA LandscapingThe circular patio is composed of decomposed granite with a broken concrete border, which mimics the feel of natural stone. It mimics the space a home might fill within the garden.
Amber Freda Garden DesignThis backyard for a townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village is made for entertaining and relaxation! Our re-design of the space included artificial turf to replace a failing lawn, updated plantings, overhead string lighting, and new lawn furniture. The existing plantings of boxwoods and birch trees, while healthy, were a little bland and boring looking, so we spiced up the plantings by adding more color, texture, and variety to the space. Our design plans included purple heuchera, gold hakone grass, creeping Jenny, rhododendrons, and a coral-bark maple tree. We picked a high-end, eco-friendly (petroleum free) artificial turf that looks exactly like real grass and is maintenance-free. It’s especially important to choose petroleum free turf for high traffic areas where children and pets may frequently come into contact with the turf. See more of our projects at www.amberfreda.com.
Christine Karnofsky Garden Design & ConsultingShady pathway spilling over with Sweet Woodruff. Stone retaining wall, ferns, cool green, ferns, stone pathway, stone wall, stone retaining wall, shade garden, ground cover, shade ground cover, dappled light, natural garden
Garden Lights Landscape and Pool Development Inc.Steve Lambert, Winner Beautification Award for Small Landscape Design - Build
Small Country-club Project, with courtyard deck, low maintenance, Bitter root walls, With Black Bubbling Pot
Billy Goodnick Garden DesignDark Delight New Zealand Flax frame what will soon be a majestic Pincushion flower (Leucospermum) transplanted from the back garden (seen through the breezeway). Purple flowers and foliage echo each other and lots of open space was preserved to avoid clutter.
photos by Billy Goodnick
Sweet Smiling LandscapesThis very social couple were tying the knot and looking to create a space to host their friends and community, while also adding much needed living space to their 900 square foot cottage. The couple had a strong emphasis on growing edible and medicinal plants. With many friends from a community garden project they were involved in and years of learning about permaculture, they wanted to incorporate many of the elements that the permaculture movement advocates for.
We came up with a California native and edible garden that incorporates three composting systems, a gray water system, rain water harvesting, a cob pizza oven, and outdoor kitchen. A majority of the materials incorporated into the hardscape were found on site or salvaged within 20-mile of the property. The garden also had amenities like an outhouse and shower for guests they would put up in the converted garage.
Coming into this project there was and An old clawfoot bathtub on site was used as a worm composting bin, and for no other reason than the cuteness factor, the bath tub composter had to stay. Added to that was a compost tumbler, and last but not least we erected an outhouse with a composting toilet system (The Nature's Head Composting Toilet).
We developed a gray water system incorporating the water that came out of the washing machine and from the outdoor shower to help water bananas, gingers, and canailles. All the down spouts coming off the roof were sent into depressions in the front yard. The depressions were planted with carex grass, which can withstand, and even thrive on, submersion in water that rain events bring to the swaled-out area. Aesthetically, carex reads as a lawn space in keeping with the cottage feeling of the home.
As with any full-fledged permaculture garden, an element of natural building needed to be incorporated. So, the heart and hearth of the garden is a cob pizza oven going into an outdoor kitchen with a built-in bench. Cob is a natural building technique that involves sculpting a mixture of sand, soil, and straw around an internal structure. In this case, the internal structure is comprised of an old built-in brick incinerator, and rubble collected on site.
Besides using the collected rubble as a base for the cob structure, other salvaged elements comprise major features of the project: the front fence was reconstructed from the preexisting fence; a majority of the stone edging was created by stones found while clearing the landscape in preparation for construction; the arbor was constructed from old wash line poles found on site; broken bricks pulled from another project were mixed with concrete and cast into vegetable beds, creating durable insulated planters while reducing the amount of concrete used ( and they also just have a unique effect); pathways and patio areas were laid using concrete broken out of the driveway and previous pathways. (When a little more broken concrete was needed, we busted out an old pad at another project a few blocks away.)
Far from a perfectly polished garden, this landscape now serves as a lush and inviting space for my clients, their friends and family to gather and enjoy each other’s company. Days after construction was finished the couple hosted their wedding reception in the garden—everyone danced, drank and celebrated, christening the garden and the union!
Olivia van Dijk ArchitectureThe home of Emily Wright of Nancybird. Emily's lovely nod to Margaret Prestons' 'The Boat' - a mural painted on the roller door that provides access to the laneway
Austin Ganim Landscape Design, LLCThe deep magenta purple flowers or Rhododendron 'Edith Bosley' provide a backdrop for the late spring lilac purple flowers of Allium 'Gladiator'
![Hygge [ hoog-uh ]: Cozy and comforting](https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/2281c0da012e7a90_9328-w360-h360-b0-p0--.jpg)
BE Landscape DesignThe instructions were clear. Make it Cozy and comforting. Use natural materials, don't hurt the environment, use lots of native plants, create shade, attract bees, butterflies and humming birds. BELandscape design, set out to create a backyard that would feel like an escape for this hard working couple. Scroll to the 'Before' photos for full appreciation of this backyard transformation.
Plan-it Earth DesignA path widens as it makes the turn down a narrow side yard to the garden shed and work area
Edger Landscape DesignSeaside Daisy, and Foothill Penstemon harmonize with Pink Monkeyflowers and Bees Bliss Sage for a colorful springtime show in front of a California Redbud. Cathy Edger, Edger Landscape Design
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