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GO Designs Inc.Looking for something different! Our client was looking to create an outdoor space that she could entertain or come home to relax at the end of a long day! Whether sitting around the firepit with a glass of wine or morning coffees, it feels like a quick getaway from the everyday hustle & bustle in her own backyard space. Pet friendly & plenty of places to hang out was important, comfy chairs around the fire pit, a place for cushy lounge chairs & dining alfresco completes the functionality! Oh! and prancing over the large mossrock stepping stones make her space feel magical! She cant wait for summer to enjoy her space as the landscape flourishes with greenery and beautiful flowers throughout! Of course the fall will be welcomed as her backyard amber glows & warmth surrounds with the right fire feature! Not your ordinary backyard space!
LandformsThis client had a very shady spot that would not dry out or grow grass. They wanted to cleanup the side of the house and make it more attractive. We installed a bed of river rock surrounded by over sized cobblestone with natural stepping stones. It gave the space a clean look and made it a nice pathway from getting from the front yard to the back with out getting your shoes dirty.
SullyScapes, LLCEastern redbud, cersis canadensis, native to the many areas east of the Mississippi. This one is the traditional green leaved redbud.
Photo by: Karen Sullivan
Lush Gardens IncConcrete Pads Pathway with Mexican Beach Pebbles glued in the spacings. We installed some Mondo Grasses to add some visual interest.
Hoy Landscaping Inc.This summer container is splendid. We can keep your Containers filled all year round!
Exterior Designs, Inc. by Beverly KatzA flagstone walkway, custom arbor and iron-gate complete this New Orleans courtyard perfectly.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral.
When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another.
We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within.
To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves.
This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity.
Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
Dig Your Garden Landscape DesignWater thirsty lawn replaced with Dymondia margaratae ground cover, surrounded by other drought-tolerant plants. Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
CMHP Design, LLCThis photo shows the lawn path to the phlox garden. Photo and landscape design by Carissa Hood-Pope
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