Plantings

Japanese Maples, Doublefile Viburnum, Tree Peony and grasses provide year round interest against the stone patio in this small urban backyard.

Year round interest, flowers, berries, foliage color and texture; good plant composition puts the finishing touch on a garden’s hardscape layout. Watch the birds fly and your plants sway in the breeze.
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A boundary planting provides privacy and stunning fall color as well as privacy from neighbors along a driveway.
Colors and textures weave together in this planting detail of a front yard rockery in the fall.
Japanese Maples, Doublefile Viburnum, Tree Peony and grasses provide year round interest against the stone patio in this small urban backyard.
 
This small path in the front yard was designed with the mail carrier in mind. It goes toward the neighbor’s front door.
A textural berm planting provides privacy from the road. Installed by Homeowner.
A view of the wild garden is created from the living room windows. Installed by Homeowner.
 
A rusted steel egret stands alone in a framed view with a variegated sedge behind him suggesting the pond hidden beyond. Installation by KM Development Professional Landscape.
Lush plantings around raised beds of cedar and stone path provide a cool feeling in summer. Installation by Long’s Home and Land Solutions
Steel sculpture by Rory Leonard suggestive of waves adorn this tall concrete wall with voluptuous plantings at Groundspring Healing Center. Reflexology Path by Emerald Stone Masonry.
 
Colorful foliage brings this rockery landscape to life in the Autumn season.
Creating a sunken garden with a living fence provided needed privacy in this small backyard on a corner lot.