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GEL: Griffin Enright LandscapeA custom fire pit sunken into the ground by a grass berm.
Design ideas for a medium sized modern back full sun garden for spring in Los Angeles with a fire feature and gravel.
Design ideas for a medium sized modern back full sun garden for spring in Los Angeles with a fire feature and gravel.
Sycamore DesignWhen the homeowners contacted Nancy Shanahan
of Sycamore Design, they wanted to enlist her expertise for one goal: to provide screening from the neighboring school and its construction projects. Little did they know, this small assignment would open the door to an
ongoing series of projects culminating in a garden that celebrates the seasons while supporting their family activities.
Both a tranquil respite and a platform for entertaining guests, these outdoor spaces are an extension of the homeowners' vibrant personalities, reaching playful functionality with the use of texture, movement, color, and even edibles. Their garden thrives today and continues to evolve with the recent addition of a cutting garden, a
sunken spa to replace their trampoline, and a fire pit to activate the area beneath their majestic oak tree.
Garden Structures & MoreThe subject matter within this framework is the best of the best.
This is an example of a large world-inspired back formal partial sun garden for spring in Minneapolis with a garden path and gravel.
This is an example of a large world-inspired back formal partial sun garden for spring in Minneapolis with a garden path and gravel.
Arrow. Land + StructuresA lush traditional garden full of perennial color, built along the rear lot lines of this Glencoe home.
This is an example of a traditional back partial sun garden in Chicago with a garden path and gravel.
This is an example of a traditional back partial sun garden in Chicago with a garden path and gravel.
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Backyard Landscape Formal Design in Wilmette, IL. using crushed blue stone, flagstone,roses, boxwoods.
Designs by ShelleneWe transformed an old tired space into a cozy cottage garden for family affairs.
Design ideas for a medium sized shabby-chic style back full sun garden in San Diego with a garden path and gravel.
Design ideas for a medium sized shabby-chic style back full sun garden in San Diego with a garden path and gravel.
Studio H Landscape ArchitectureThis is an example of a medium sized classic back xeriscape partial sun garden seating in Los Angeles with gravel and a potted garden.
WA Design Architectswa design
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary back formal partial sun garden for spring in San Francisco with a vegetable patch and gravel.
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary back formal partial sun garden for spring in San Francisco with a vegetable patch and gravel.
Superior Fence Co of San AntonioPhoto of an expansive modern back formal full sun garden for spring in Austin with a garden path and gravel.
Kristl Konstruction Inc.Marty Cohen
Photo of a nautical back formal garden in San Francisco with a fire feature and gravel.
Photo of a nautical back formal garden in San Francisco with a fire feature and gravel.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignThis shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy.
The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves.
These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree.
At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike.
The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover.
Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight.
The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover.
Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway.
The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it.
A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed.
To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.
Margie Grace - Grace Design AssociatesUber green earthy contemporary
Winner of the Gold Medal and the International Landscaper Designer of The Year for APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers)
Winner of Santa Barbara Beautiful Award, Large Family Residence
The Green SeedEarly Summer at Green Seed Gardens
Inspiration for an expansive rural back xeriscape full sun garden for summer in Portland with a flowerbed and gravel.
Inspiration for an expansive rural back xeriscape full sun garden for summer in Portland with a flowerbed and gravel.
Derviss Designraise vegetable beds
Design ideas for a medium sized farmhouse back full sun garden for summer in San Francisco with a garden path, gravel and a wood fence.
Design ideas for a medium sized farmhouse back full sun garden for summer in San Francisco with a garden path, gravel and a wood fence.
Robert Carmody and ABQ Real EstateThis cheerful + convenient Urban Abode is exactly what you need right now! Totally transformed with a modernized layout & top notch, low maintenance materials & finishes. A light filled, open kitchen + great room live large, allowing for flexibility in the use of the space. Ample storage throughout! BIG bonus is the large utility/flex room that can serve a variety of needs. Custom kitchen features timeless + modern gray cabinets, classic carrara style counters, stunning metallic glass tile, Energy Star SS appliances, brushed hardware, recessed lights + breakfast bar/work station! Brand new Master & Guest Bathrooms! Low-E WIndows, Luxury Vinyl Plank Floors, LED Lighting, Fans, Upgraded 200amp Electrical, H20 Heater, New Cooler, Fresh Paint, Bkyd Fire Pit + TruGrass, Covered Patio + MORE! More...
Hastings Construction IncBoth apartments have access to the backyard common area which features a small firepit.
Medium sized modern back xeriscape partial sun garden for summer in Other with a fire feature and gravel.
Medium sized modern back xeriscape partial sun garden for summer in Other with a fire feature and gravel.
Hortulus Animae llc - Mindful Garden DesignLandmark Historic Estate -
Master plan being executed over several phases including:
-Foundations
-Gravel Parterre Terraces
-Great Lawn Borders
-Garden Rooms with themed plantings design
-Riverfront landings
-Native Meadows
4400 acre property in sub-tropical zone 7b
30 acres of formal gardens and parks
Landscape and garden restoration and re-design
Drip Landscape and Tree ServiceThis is an example of a medium sized modern back xeriscape full sun garden in Austin with gravel.
Orion RockscapesInspiration for a medium sized contemporary back full sun garden for summer in Seattle with a vegetable patch and gravel.
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