Award-Winning Gardens
2019 APLD Silver Award Winner, 2019 PPA Landscape Design Award
Colonial Farmhouse Garden in Royersford, PA
Intent on creating a visceral reaction for guests upon entering the gardens, plantings and pathways were designed to entice circulation and exploration in an experience the owner describes as "walking through a symphony".
Beyond beauty, function was built into the landscape by siting a new garage and rain gardens to create a courtyard, which creates intimacy upon arrival. Hand-cut, salvaged fieldstone was used for edging and paving to maintain the vernacular of the 1700s farmhouse. A new retaining wall was built to mimic the original, supporting a kitchen-side terrace that overlooks a nearby creek.
Species of native Symphytum and Liatris were combined with cosmopolitan plants to generate hybridization on site and long-term viability of the garden.
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2020 APLD Gold Award Winner
Kempton Garden in Kempton, PA
Challenged by a barren, rocky canvas, the desire was to create an impressionistic meadow that amplified, but did not outcompete, the majestic surroundings of this custom home in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
This ecologically sensitive landscape demanded stress-tolerant plants that would thrive long-term on the dry, windswept ridge. The result was layered naturalistic plantings, large promenades and secondary pathways that compose captivating views of the expansive ridgeline, An intimate, immediate sense of place was achieved among the emergent grasses and low-slung light in leaves.
ASLA Award Winner Quaker Smith Point Residence in Shelburne, VT
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APLD 2010 International Landscape Design Merit Award Winner Sabrena Schweyer, APLD, Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc, Akron, OH
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APLD 2010 International Landscape Designer of the Year & Gold Award Winner James Doyle, James Doyle Design Associates, Greenwich, CT
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2010 ASLA award winner.
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2010 ASLA award winner, landscape architect Richard Shaw.
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An outdoor dining room is surrounded by cedar, pine, bayberry and beach grass. An existing brick and concrete patio was replaced with a cedar pallet that rests on sleepers set directly into the sand. The tight-grained cedar weathers naturally without treatment, eliminating chemicals leaching into the sand.
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2011 APLD Landscape Designer of the Year and Gold Award Winner
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APLD International Landscape Design Merit Award Winner
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APLD International Landscape Design Merit Award Winner
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East 25th Stret, between Clarendon Road and Avenue D, in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, (pictured here) was the first place winner of the 2011 Greenest Block in Brooklyn.
ASLA Award Winner A Farm at Little Compton
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ASLA Award Winner Carnegie Hill House
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ASLA Award Winner Snake River Residence
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ASLA Award Winner New Century Garden: A Garden of Water and Light in Palm Springs, CA
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ASLA Award Winner Quaker Smith Point Residence in Shelburne, VT
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APLD Merit Award Winner
APLD Merit Award Winner
APLD Merit Award Winner
