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This hillside country garden is located in Northern California and surrounded by incredible views. The landscape design called for creating a contemporary, informal and relaxing habitat garden that offers various seating areas and connects seamlessly from the house. We developed a design that celebrates and enhances the existing, natural boulder formations, stands of silhouetted [...]

This house was designed by Howell and Thomas in 1916 and built around a Skinner organ in the basement. The garden offers a blend of informal and formal elements with large trees, conifers for screening and a dramatic variety of shrubs, perennials and tropicals throughout. This garden was planned in a succession of exterior [...]

This garden is an informal urban retreat with an English cottage garden style: A rough sandstone wall in the front garden creates visual elevation for a mixed border of perennials and dwarf conifers and meadow plantings create a textural and colourful sidewalk area. We designed a deep Koi pond surrounded by natural sandstone boulders, [...]

This garden was designed as a formal combination of connected spaces, fountains and diverse planting distinctly French in atmosphere and relating to the symmetry and bold architecture of this Beaux-Arts style house. “Beaulieu,” (French for “beautiful place”) was designed by the architect Frederic Striebinger (1870-1941) and built by Henry A. Tremaine in 1912-1914 in [...]

The brief for this small garden located in the heart of the historic City of Oxford in the UK was challenging and succinct: Explore and develop some innovative ideas for the garden. The design had to incorporate a walkway from the new kitchen addition to the office at the far end of the garden, [...]

The area provided for this public garden site at the Cleveland Botanical Garden is prominent and well frequented by guests from all over the world. The landscape design had to provide visual impact and interest from various viewing points on this small and fairly steep site. The classical framework of columns and walls [...]

In the far Limpopo Provence of South Africa, high up in the Soutpansberg Mountains (a Natural Heritage site), lies the magical world of Leshiba Wilderness. Leshiba Wilderness is a 2,600- hectare game reserve that provides a full range of guest facilities and as part of the Soutpansberg Conservancy, ranks very high for the quantity [...]

This is a magnificent estate situated on almost four acres of land. It was built in late French Renaissance or Neoclassical style and designated a historical landmark. The design for these gardens called for a genuine appreciation of the history of the house and an artistic vision: A blend of formal and informal elements [...]