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MUD Landscape DesignRecycled timber green wall, Photography by Andy Jones
This is an example of a small rustic courtyard xeriscape partial sun garden for spring in Newcastle - Maitland with a living wall and concrete paving.
This is an example of a small rustic courtyard xeriscape partial sun garden for spring in Newcastle - Maitland with a living wall and concrete paving.
Avalon Northwest Landscape, LLCDesign By LaPatra Architects, Seattle
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
Growsgreen Landscape DesignPhoto by Caitlin Atkinson
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
LaurelRockKaren Bussolini
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
Princeton Design CollaborativeFence Design with Cedar Pergola, copper pipe trellis ,gravel path & bench
Jeffrey Edward Tryon
Photo of a medium sized contemporary back formal fully shaded garden seating for autumn in New York with a living wall and brick paving.
Photo of a medium sized contemporary back formal fully shaded garden seating for autumn in New York with a living wall and brick paving.
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.
Blasen Landscape ArchitectureMarion Brenner
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Deep Seeded Landscape and Design, Inc.Belgard Mirage Glocal Paver stairs trimmed with steel edging welcome guests to a modern home and courtyard. Drought tolerant landscaping and outdoor lighting soften stone masonry and steel accents.
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsPhoto of a traditional back partial sun garden steps in Chicago with natural stone paving.
Wilber & KingA grand driveway lined with manicured Linden trees and rows of fragrant lavender lead you to the doorstep of this stunning stone home. Pea-stone aggregates are used as the driveway surface with bordered by natural stone curbing with a strip of natural stone down the middle for drainage. Fun fact: These Linden trees also known as Lyme tree were the types of trees used in the Lord of the Rings film. They were the Hobbits home of choice!
This drone image gives allows you to see the precision of our planning and the creativity and expertise of our team. Photo by Neil Landino
HEDGE Garden Design & NurseryWe divided the long corridor into garden rooms and ran a jasmine espalier along the fence line to green up the walls. Designed by HEDGE Garden Design & Nursery. Photo: NZ House & Garden.
Mr B's Landscaping and Garden CareSmall traditional courtyard formal partial sun garden in Adelaide with a living wall and concrete paving.
Côté Jardin Dordognejardin en Dordogne de type classique et chic
Large classic formal fully shaded garden steps for summer in Bordeaux with natural stone paving.
Large classic formal fully shaded garden steps for summer in Bordeaux with natural stone paving.
Hanselman Landscape and GardensLarge classic back formal full sun garden for summer in Philadelphia with brick paving.
Garden Steps with a Living Wall Ideas and Designs
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