Residential Landscape Design

An Outdoor Room

A room can be created where there are walls, fences or any enclosing perimeter. My clients in Jamaica Plain wanted a beautiful back yard garden and space to grow food, dine, entertain, and have a small...
Living on a Slope

Living on a slope is not easy if you are a gardener. Irrigation, planting, and installing all become more difficult. The steeper the slope the more problematic the challenges. Fortunately, the busy clients who own this...
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...
Small Backyard Garden

The owners of this house on a busy street in front of a bus stop dreamed of a private backyard oasis . This space was an open canvas and had a shared driveway and a rental...
New Patio with a Low Maintenance Garden

Landscaping that accommodates pets is a common challenge for homeowners. The four-legged white husky that lives on this property loved to race from one side of the house to the other grooving a lane in the...
Courtyard and Container Garden

An arbor gateway leads to an intimate courtyard. The courtyard features casual seating and a dining space, an English container garden, and a stone fountain doubling as a bird bath. A terraced barbeque patio adjoins a...
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...
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...
Woodland Slope Garden

This woodland garden was a gift from our client to his wife. The emphasis was made to make a lush and welcoming space for contemplation and rest in the backyard and simplify the overgrown planting bed...
Woodland Oasis

If you don’t need a lawn, why have one? That was the philosophy of the retired couple living in a suburb of Boston. The stately oak tree central to the tiny back yard was architecturally pruned...
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...
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...