Front Yard Landscape Design
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Four Season Suburban Landscape
This suburban home in Needham was completely transformed from a no-frills front and back yard to a beautiful welcoming entrance and gorgeous backyard garden spaces. Each element of the property was examined and brought together with a consistent landscape plan. The client had specific needs including a child play space, a vegetable garden and...
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Front Yard Landscape on a Slope
“No one can find the front door.” That was the challenge I was asked to resolve when it came to the front of this house in Needham. The solution was to build retaining walls and install a formal walkway system from all parking areas and driveways to the front door and informal walkways or paths...
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Front Yard Cottage Garden
Curb Appeal! At this small suburban property an old fence and some overgrown rhododendrons and yews were replaced with a picket fence married to a field stone wall. This timeless style also incorporated an arbor gateway to an intimate courtyard. The courtyard features casual seating and a dining space, an English container garden, and a...
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Circle Driveway Garden and Terrace
A favorite challenge in creating gardens is incorporating children’s play areas and family entertaining. This family of four’s home was located on a main scenic road with no sidewalks, making neighborhood bicycling, skate boarding, and other wheel-bearing sports inaccessible for the kids. There was also a desire to engage in daily basketball one-on-ones. A large...
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Driveway Garden
This rock garden with an Asiatic flavor was inspired by the nearby wetland. The busy owner wanted her garden to be child friendly, drought tolerant and to reflect her artistic nature. Textural evergreens, bamboos, grasses and perennials surround the bowl planter which serves as the focal point and doubles as a home for the hose...
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