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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.
Amelia B. Lima & Associates, INC.A 4o feet long green wall creates a living colorful mural on a side yard.
Amelia B. Lima
This is an example of a contemporary side garden in San Diego with gravel.
This is an example of a contemporary side garden in San Diego with gravel.
Aden LandscapingMedium sized contemporary back formal partial sun garden in Seattle with a water feature and gravel.
Studio H Landscape ArchitecturePhotography by Studio H Landscape Architecture. Post processing by Isabella Li.
Small contemporary back xeriscape garden in Orange County with gravel.
Small contemporary back xeriscape garden in Orange County with 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.
Princeton Design CollaborativeGarden allee path with copper pipe trellis
Photo by: Jeffrey Edward Tryon of PDC
Design ideas for a small contemporary courtyard formal fully shaded garden for summer in Philadelphia with gravel.
Design ideas for a small contemporary courtyard formal fully shaded garden for summer in Philadelphia with gravel.
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
Tierra Madre Fine GardensDesign ideas for a small contemporary back partial sun pergola in Other with gravel.
UserPhoto by Matthew Niemann Photography
Design ideas for a contemporary front xeriscape garden in Other with a desert look and gravel.
Design ideas for a contemporary front xeriscape garden in Other with a desert look and gravel.
Dig Your Garden Landscape DesignAPLD 2021 Silver Award Winning Landscape Design. Galvanized troughs used for vegetables in the side yard. An expansive back yard landscape with several mature oak trees and a stunning Golden Locust tree has been transformed into a welcoming outdoor retreat. The renovations include a wraparound deck, an expansive travertine natural stone patio, stairways and pathways along with concrete retaining walls and column accents with dramatic planters. The pathways meander throughout the landscape... some with travertine stepping stones and gravel and those below the majestic oaks left natural with fallen leaves. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees occupy some of the sunniest areas of the landscape. A variety of low-water and low-maintenance plants for both sunny and shady areas include several succulents, grasses, CA natives and other site-appropriate Mediterranean plants complimented by a variety of boulders. Dramatic white pots provide architectural accents, filled with succulents and citrus trees. Design, Photos, Drawings © Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
Jenny Bloom Garden DesignA small garden at the rear of a Grade II Listed property was extended beyond the original boundary after the client purchased the derelict and overgrown plots beyond. The original lawned garden space was redesigned as a courtyard using reclaimed yorkstone and a more contemporary 'secret garden' was created beyond the wall. A sunny chill out zone was created for the family to relax in, and a productive garden includes fruit trees and raised beds for growing vegetables.
Ginkgo Leaf StudioRenn Kuhnen Photography
This is an example of a large contemporary side xeriscape full sun garden for summer in Milwaukee with gravel.
This is an example of a large contemporary side xeriscape full sun garden for summer in Milwaukee with gravel.
Orion RockscapesInspiration for a medium sized contemporary back full sun garden for summer in Seattle with a vegetable patch and gravel.
dSPACE Studio Ltd, AIATony Soluri
Inspiration for a contemporary full sun garden in Chicago with gravel.
Inspiration for a contemporary full sun garden in Chicago with gravel.
Grounded - Richard Risner RLA, ASLAPhoto of a large contemporary front xeriscape full sun garden in San Diego with a potted garden and gravel.
Peters ArchitectureClark Dugger Photography
This is an example of a large contemporary back full sun garden in Los Angeles with a potted garden and gravel.
This is an example of a large contemporary back full sun garden in Los Angeles with a potted garden and gravel.
Boodle ConceptsWhy not enjoy your outdoor space at night? We promote garden lights in all of our designs, and love the mood it evokes. in this shade space we've planted Arthropodium & Madagascan Jasmine (climbing on an architectural cable trellis). Add an expanse of new merbau decking & raised planter beds.
Contemporary garden design & installation in McKinnon by Benjamin Carter from Boodle Concepts, Melbourne.
Barbara Samitier GardensAnna Batchelor
Design ideas for a small contemporary back xeriscape full sun garden for spring in London with a vegetable patch and gravel.
Design ideas for a small contemporary back xeriscape full sun garden for spring in London with a vegetable patch and gravel.
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