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Photo of an expansive mediterranean back xeriscape full sun garden for spring in San Francisco with a fire feature and natural stone paving.
yardscapes Inc.Front entrance at the circle paver driveway and mortared stone columns holding the entrance lights.
Expansive rural front driveway full sun garden for summer in Minneapolis with natural stone paving and a garden path.
Expansive rural front driveway full sun garden for summer in Minneapolis with natural stone paving and a garden path.
Design Directives, LLCArchitect: Kilbane Architecture.
Builder: Detar Construction
Project designed by Susie Hersker’s Scottsdale interior design firm Design Directives. Design Directives is active in Phoenix, Paradise Valley, Cave Creek, Carefree, Sedona, and beyond.
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Blackwood & Associates, Inc.Inspiration for an expansive classic side partial sun garden in Other with gravel.
Urban Habitats Landscape StudioBeds brimming with salvia, lavender and other drought tolerant plants surround this garden space and greenhouse. The landing is made from basalt stone and leads to stairs to the lower level.
photo: Urban Habitats Landscape Studio
FormLA LandscapingHot Lips Salvia blooms look more like those of snapdragons than the notable wands of its sister salvias. It gets its name from the white and red tips of it's blooms that look like "Hot Lips". In spring, its fiesta red blooms seem to fill the garden.
In winter, Hot Lips' foliage also brings something distinctive to the garden. Its woodier stalks and delicate, deep green leaves create a dramatic backdrop for the silvery foliage of Salvia Clevelandii and cassia.
Photo: Orly Olivier
R. P. Marzilli & Company Landscape ContractorMarianne Lee Photography
Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects
Parker Construction
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Inspiration for an expansive traditional formal full sun garden for summer in Boston with a water feature.
Inspiration for an expansive traditional formal full sun garden for summer in Boston with a water feature.
ForeverLawn of the CarolinasPhoto of an expansive traditional back xeriscape full sun garden in Raleigh with gravel.
Belknap Landscape CompanyThis is an example of an expansive rural front driveway partial sun garden for summer in Boston with a retaining wall and gravel.
Topeka Landscape, Inc.6" limestone retaining walls and steps with plantings.
Expansive classic back garden in Other with a retaining wall.
Expansive classic back garden in Other with a retaining wall.
Van Zelst IncPhoto by Kirsten Gentry and Terra Jenkins for Van Zelst, Inc.
Photo of an expansive traditional back formal fully shaded garden for spring in Chicago.
Photo of an expansive traditional back formal fully shaded garden for spring in Chicago.
Design One LandscapingDesign ideas for an expansive contemporary back partial sun garden for summer in Detroit with mulch.
David R. Lamb, Landscape ArchitectThis propery is situated on the south side of Centre Island at the edge of an oak and ash woodlands. orignally, it was three properties having one house and various out buildings. topographically, it more or less continually sloped to the water. Our task was to creat a series of terraces that were to house various functions such as the main house and forecourt, cottage, boat house and utility barns.
The immediate landscape around the main house was largely masonry terraces and flower gardens. The outer landscape was comprised of heavily planted trails and intimate open spaces for the client to preamble through. As the site was largely an oak and ash woods infested with Norway maple and japanese honey suckle we essentially started with tall trees and open ground. Our planting intent was to introduce a variety of understory tree and a heavy shrub and herbaceous layer with an emphisis on planting native material. As a result the feel of the property is one of graciousness with a challenge to explore.
UserAt the front door, guests are greeted by plantings of Lonicera Nitida in containers from Flora Grubb gardens.
Photos-Chris Jacobson, GardenArt Group
Inspiration for an expansive traditional front formal partial sun garden for summer in San Francisco with a garden path and natural stone paving.
Inspiration for an expansive traditional front formal partial sun garden for summer in San Francisco with a garden path and natural stone paving.
Guerin Design + DevelopmentWilliam Maccollum, Art Grey Photography
Expansive contemporary sloped full sun garden in Los Angeles with a retaining wall.
Expansive contemporary sloped full sun garden in Los Angeles with a retaining wall.
LaurelRockKaren Bussolini
Design ideas for an expansive traditional front driveway partial sun garden in New York with a garden path and natural stone paving.
Design ideas for an expansive traditional front driveway partial sun garden in New York with a garden path and natural stone paving.
Smalls LandscapingPicture it--family and friends roasting marshmallows by the fire on a crisp, cool, evening. Afterwards, enjoying a dip in the hot tub. If your backyard looked like this why would you want to be inside?
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignThe problem this Memorial-Houston homeowner faced was that her sumptuous contemporary home, an austere series of interconnected cubes of various sizes constructed from white stucco, black steel and glass, did not have the proper landscaping frame. It was out of scale. Imagine Robert Motherwell's "Black on White" painting without the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston's generous expanse of white walls surrounding it. It would still be magnificent but somehow...off.
Intuitively, the homeowner realized this issue and started interviewing landscape designers. After talking to about 15 different designers, she finally went with one, only to be disappointed with the results. From the across-the-street neighbor, she was then introduced to Exterior Worlds and she hired us to correct the newly-created problems and more fully realize her hopes for the grounds. "It's not unusual for us to come in and deal with a mess. Sometimes a homeowner gets overwhelmed with managing everything. Other times it is like this project where the design misses the mark. Regardless, it is really important to listen for what a prospect or client means and not just what they say," says Jeff Halper, owner of Exterior Worlds.
Since the sheer size of the house is so dominating, Exterior Worlds' overall job was to bring the garden up to scale to match the house. Likewise, it was important to stretch the house into the landscape, thereby softening some of its severity. The concept we devised entailed creating an interplay between the landscape and the house by astute placement of the black-and-white colors of the house into the yard using different materials and textures. Strategic plantings of greenery increased the interest, density, height and function of the design.
First we installed a pathway of crushed white marble around the perimeter of the house, the white of the path in homage to the house’s white facade. At various intervals, 3/8-inch steel-plated metal strips, painted black to echo the bones of the house, were embedded and crisscrossed in the pathway to turn it into a loose maze.
Along this metal bunting, we planted succulents whose other-worldly shapes and mild coloration juxtaposed nicely against the hard-edged steel. These plantings included Gulf Coast muhly, a native grass that produces a pink-purple plume when it blooms in the fall. A side benefit to the use of these plants is that they are low maintenance and hardy in Houston’s summertime heat.
Next we brought in trees for scale. Without them, the impressive architecture becomes imposing. We placed them along the front at either corner of the house. For the left side, we found a multi-trunk live oak in a field, transported it to the property and placed it in a custom-made square of the crushed marble at a slight distance from the house. On the right side where the house makes a 90-degree alcove, we planted a mature mesquite tree.
To finish off the front entry, we fashioned the black steel into large squares and planted grass to create islands of green, or giant lawn stepping pads. We echoed this look in the back off the master suite by turning concrete pads of black-stained concrete into stepping pads.
We kept the foundational plantings of Japanese yews which add green, earthy mass, something the stark architecture needs for further balance. We contoured Japanese boxwoods into small spheres to enhance the play between shapes and textures.
In the large, white planters at the front entrance, we repeated the plantings of succulents and Gulf Coast muhly to reinforce symmetry. Then we built an additional planter in the back out of the black metal, filled it with the crushed white marble and planted a Texas vitex, another hardy choice that adds a touch of color with its purple blooms.
To finish off the landscaping, we needed to address the ravine behind the house. We built a retaining wall to contain erosion. Aesthetically, we crafted it so that the wall has a sharp upper edge, a modern motif right where the landscape meets the land.
Adam Woodruff LLCDesigner: Adam Woodruff
www.adamwoodruff.com
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Design ideas for an expansive contemporary back garden in St Louis.
Design ideas for an expansive contemporary back garden in St Louis.
Barnett Construction Ltd.Shawn Talbot
Expansive mediterranean garden in Vancouver with a vegetable patch.
Expansive mediterranean garden in Vancouver with a vegetable patch.
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