Hear what our clients, Allison & Rick, have to say about their project by clicking on the Facebook link and then the Videos tab. Fall annual display highlighting the front entry with mums, broom corn, pumpkins, and gourds. Project Partners: Conway Contracting, Pav-Tech S.C., Hannah Goering Photography

Inspiration for an asian full sun garden for fall in Boston with natural stone pavers.

Front Yard Landscape Makeover
Photo of a mid-sized traditional front yard full sun formal garden for fall in Kansas City.

fench country classical garden meets modern. These are technically two different houses that the client combined into one. VERY different styles, but well done.

Cor-ten steel steps / pea stone and concrete retaining walls
This is an example of a large modern backyard full sun formal garden for fall in New York with a retaining wall and gravel.

Brent Bingham Photography: http://www.brentbinghamphoto.com/
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary backyard full sun xeriscape for fall in Denver with gravel.

Inspiration for a large transitional side yard full sun driveway for fall in Raleigh with concrete pavers.

Malgorzata Helman Landscape Design. The resting square, the pergolas and the obelisk are the only geometric features in the garden, gathered in one place. The rest of the garden is free and fluid. Photo © Tomek Ciesielski www.tomekciesielski.com

Malgorzata Helman Landscape Design. Modern garden with ornamental grasses. Photography Tomek Ciesielski www.tomekciesielski.com
Design ideas for a mid-sized modern backyard full sun garden for fall in Other.

Recycled brick pavers, stacked locally quarried basalt stone wall system, placed granite boulders, and drought tolerant landscaping. anna caitlin photography

Caryopteris softens the seatwall, Westport, CT. Austin Ganim Landscape Design, LLC
Design ideas for a contemporary backyard full sun garden for fall in Bridgeport with a retaining wall and natural stone pavers.

Situated on a 100 acre site, this landscape for a private residence draws it's inspiration from the classic mountain lodges of the northeast. Rich sweeping drifts of native perennials, grasses and shrubs create a relaxed, elegant composition that ground the home and define a variety of spaces for family gathering, entertaining and quiet reflection. Large caliper trees were planted to compliment the surrounding mature trees, providing a sense of permanence and timelessness. An existing pond was augmented and expanded for swimming with a 'diving rock' hand selected and perched at one end. The south-facing terrace is defined by large slabs of stone and a grand outdoor fireplace that gives way to views of the neighboring ski trails. Photo Credit: Westphalen Photography

Inspiration for a mid-sized backyard full sun garden for fall in Portland with with rock feature, river rock and a wood fence.

The goal of this project was to transition the modern home back into the surrounding landscape, with a natural low maintenance expansive meadow. The clean lines of the home create a sharp transition to this flowing prairie. When the wind blows the home floats in a sea of gold and green. Landforms Inc.

Rakan Alduaij photography
Design ideas for an expansive traditional front yard full sun driveway for fall in Seattle with concrete pavers.

Plants in 2017!
Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional front yard full sun driveway for fall in Other with a retaining wall and mulch.

Trace Robinson
Design ideas for a mid-sized mediterranean front yard full sun xeriscape for fall in Santa Barbara with a container garden and gravel.

This is an example of a small country sloped full sun xeriscape for fall in San Francisco with a garden path and gravel.

This garden house was designed by owner and architect, Shirat Mavligit. The wooden section of outer wall is actually the outer section of a central volume that creates an enlarged open space bisecting the home interior. The windows create a view corridor within the home that allows visitors to see all the way through to the back yard. Occupants of the home looking out through these windows feel as if they are sitting in the middle of a garden. This architectural theme of volume and line of site is so powerful that it became the inspiration for the modern landscape design we developed in the front, back, and side yards of the property. We began by addressing the issue of too much open space in the front yard. It has no surrounding fence, and it faces a very busy street in Houston’s Rice Village Area. After careful study of the home façade, our team determined that the best way to set aside a large portion of private space in front of the home was to construct a landscape berm. This land art form adds a sense of dimension and psychological boundary to the scene. It is built of core 10 steel and stands 16 inches tall. This is just high enough for guests to sit on, and it provides an ideal sunbathing area for summer days. The sweeping contour of the berm offsets the rigid linearity of the home with a softer architectural detail. Its linear progression gives the modern landscape design a dynamic sense of movement. Moving to the back yard, we reinforced the home’s central volume and view corridor by laying a rectilinear line of gravel parallel to an equivalent section of grass. Near the corner of the house, we created a series of gravel stepping pads that lead guests from the gravel run, through the grass, and into a vegetable garden. The heavy use of gravel does several things. It communicates a sense of control by containing the vitality of the lawn within an inorganic, mathematically precise space. This feeling of contained life force is common in modern landscape design. This also adds the functional advantage of a low-maintenance space where only minimal lawn care is needed. Gravel also has its own unique aesthetic appeal. Its dark color compliments both the grass and the house, providing an ideal lead-in to the space of the vegetable garden. This same rectilinear geometry was applied to the side yard, but the materials were reversed to add dramatic effect. Here, the field is gravel, and the stepping pads are made from grass. Heavy gauge steel planters were set into the gravel to house separate plantings of Zoysia. The pads run from the library to the kitchen, allowing visitors to travel between the two as if they are walking on a floor decorated with grass. The lawn in all three yards is planted with Zoysia grass. This species of grass is frequently used in modern landscape design because it requires only moderate amounts of water to retain its exceptionally fine texture. When mowed, it presents a clean, well-manicured lawn that compliments the conservatism of the home.