シアトルにある高級な中くらいな、秋のアジアンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (池、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

他の地域にある高級な中くらいな、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (半日向) の写真

他の地域にある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (池、半日向) の写真

Opening up this front entrance by adding a 14ft Sylvester palm tree along the driveway and layered planting throughout the front makes for a clean but colorful tropical space. Landscape designed and installed by Construction Landscape, Jennifer Bevins 772-492-8382.

オレンジカウンティにある高級な中くらいな、夏のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Cedar fence with raised cedar garden beds, container herbs, and custom steel planters with succulents.
サンディエゴにある高級な中くらいな、夏のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (日向、砂利舗装) の写真

We were contacted by the owner of a Houston, Texas home who asked us to design a series of gardens and landscaping features that would compliment and expand the Mediterranean theme of his house into the surrounding landscape. This house sat on a very large lot of several acres in a secluded Memorial Drive neighborhood located near the 610 Loop. The home featured a symmetrical, linear appearance in spite of its two-story build, and our client wanted a landscape and garden design that would follow these same principles of self-contained regularity and subtle linear motion. Creating a Mediterranean theme in a Houston, Texas garden and landscape is a bit more complex that it might appear at face value. The southern coast of Europe—particularly in Italy and Greece—is a mountainous area where homes and gardens are built on steep angles and sharp vertical rises. Gardens and fields are often built in terraces that climb the mountains due to the limited planting area and rough, rocky terrain. Limestone is the predominant rock type in Italy and Greece and has become iconic of this part of the world in our collective consciousness. Mediterranean homes and gardens are historically famous for their white stucco walls, olive groves, and carefully sculptured greenery embedded in a rugged limestone backdrop. The challenge lay in taking an essentially three-dimensional landscaping style and transfering it to a Houston property. As we all know, this part of Texas is very flat, so a hillside garden is out of the question in the literal sense. However, using a combination of symmetrical forms and linear progressions, along with some innovative garden materials, we were able to mimic several aspects of seaside European terrain. The key to doing this was to establish a combination of circular forms and linear patterns in the multiple garden elements we designed. French and Italian gardens place a heavy emphasis on order and symmetry, and both tend to utilize right angles to establish form. We planted a variety of low level growth around the house and rear swimming pool patio to emphasize its walls and corners. We then added three keynote forms to the landscape to create a Houston equivalent of a Mediterranean garden. The first of these forms was a knot garden centered on the front door, located just in front of the home’s motorcourt. We planted boxwoods in three circular rows that looked like terraces on a hillside. In the center of the knot garden we planted Loropatalum, punctuated with a lone Crinum lily as the center piece. The rich purple of the Loropatalum draws catches the eye, and the vertical dimension added by the lily draws it upward to the front entrance of the house. Moving then to one side of the house, we transformed a substantial portion of the yard into a parterre garden that centered on a large glass room that extended from the west wing of the house. This garden was populated by low-growth rose bushes whose amenability to constant trimming makes them an ideal plant material for parterre gardens, and whose colorful blooms a made them stand out from multiple vantage points throughout this Houston neighborhood. The garden borders were made from of boxwood hedges, and the central pathways were made using European limestone gravel that mimics the color of the limestone cliffs of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. We then completed the design by adding dwarf yaupon, a small shrub that bears a curious resemblance to clouds, all along the borders of the gravel walkways. This helped create the impression that the garden was located on a hilltop near the sea, and that the clouds were rolling across the shoreline. One of the most appealing attributes of this Houston, Texas property is its superb location. The back of the yard borders a 50-foot ravine carved out of the earth by a major tributary of Buffalo Bayou. This seemed to us a natural destination spot for garden guests to visit after strolling around the west wing of the home to the pool. To encourage them to do so, we planted an alley of crepe myrtles leading from the pool area all the way back to the woods along the ravine. We then built a walkway out of limestone aggregate blocks that started at the parterre garden, ran alongside the house to the pool, then ran straight out through the alley of trees to the scenic overlook of the forest and stream below. For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston's fine neighborhoods.

Contemporary townhouse wildlife garden, with meandering gravel paths through dynamic herbaceous planting with corten water features.
ウエストミッドランズにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (日向、川石舗装) の写真

We remodelled a garden we installed some 5 years earlier as the children had grown older and our client wanted an outdoor room to use as a gym, snug and have a separate area within the pod for garden storage. Podspace were commissioned to design a bespoke pod to fully utilise the width of the garden. We then worked our new planting around to give a generous lounge area in which to enjoy the sun, while still keeping the dining area close to the house. A wide path was used to connect the spaces and many of our original and now mature plants were kept. We added new planting borders which were planted with more structural and varied evergreens to create 'cloud' hedges.

シンシナティにある高級な小さな、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (ファイヤーピット、日向、真砂土舗装、金属フェンス) の写真

A young family desired the perfect garden to grow alongside their rural lives in Surrey’s countryside. We designed a meaningful space for our clients to journey through their garden and reconnect with the native woodland encompassing their home. We felt it was important to perforate the boundary, to open up the scenic views and incorporate the borrowed landscape.

A formal and thoughtfully sized ‘Cavalier’ zoysia lawn defined with custom steel edging. Photographer: Greg Thomas, http://optphotography.com/

Inviting front entry garden channels stormwater into a retention swale to protect the lake from fertilizer runoff.
ミネアポリスにある高級な巨大な、夏のラスティックスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、半日向、レンガ敷き) の写真

The project included new landscape and hardscape to reflect a more formal garden setting. Architect: The Warner Group. Photographer: Kelly Teich
サンタバーバラにある高級な広い地中海スタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

フィラデルフィアにある高級な広い、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (日向、天然石敷き) の写真

シアトルにある高級な中くらいな、秋のアジアンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (池、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Featuring an elegant wood decking paired with a contemporary stainless steel cable rail system. Natural stone raised garden beds infuse an organic essence, harmoniously contrasting the refined blue stone patio. Anchoring the design is a chic metal roof pavilion, lending both shade and style.

Harriet Farlam
ロンドンにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (コンクリート敷き ) の写真

This beautiful Asian inspired oasis is the perfect place to relax!
ニューヨークにある高級な中くらいな、秋のアジアンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、半日向、砂利舗装) の写真