Posts Tagged ‘Planting’

The Modernist Garden

Monday, September 28th, 2009
Entry Walkway

Entry Walkway

This is an entry into a backyard garden.  The concrete step stones were dry laid in crusher run limestone gravel.  Massing was created with Indian hawthorn, lambs ear and dwarf yaupons, with the “tunnel” formed from wax myrtle and Nellie R. Stevens holly.  Birmingham, Al.

This modernist garden was design as a transitioning materials walkway.  The patio is graded from stamped concrete to solid concrete step stones, to running concrete step stones in crusher run gravel and finally to crusher run gravel only.  Crisp edging is provided by metal.  Plantings consist of native plant material and vegetables.  Birmingham, Al. (more…)

Curb Appeal

Monday, September 28th, 2009

This landscape planting plan was designed to create curb appeal.  The issue was that from the street the garage was highly visible, but the front door was hidden.

Lawn Architechture

Lawn Architecture

We used carefully selected plantings of miscanthus, sedum, black-eyed suzie and liriope to screen the garage, frame the view to the house and literally point the way to the front door.  A mass planting of hollies at the far side of the yard screened the neighbor’s house reinforcing the view to the door.

Knoxville, TN