--- title: "Shepard Butler Landscape Associates — Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers | Houzz" canonical_html_url: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/landscape-architects-and-landscape-designers/shepard-butler-landscape-associates-pfvwus-pf~1635964883 markdown_url: https://www.houzz.com/md/professionals/pf~1635964883.md entity_type: LocalBusiness business_name: "Shepard Butler Landscape Associates" category: ["Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers"] image: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/4973eec8009d0ff5_6479-w400-h400-b0-p0--.jpg address: "1635 Tucker Hill Road, Thetford Center, Vermont 05075, United States" latitude: 43.8149 longitude: -72.2662 phone: "(802) 785-2895" website: http://www.sblainc.com rating: 0 review_count: 0 best_of_houzz_awards: 5 followers: 86 last_updated: 2026-11-11 --- # Shepard Butler Landscape Associates Original Houzz profile: [Shepard Butler Landscape Associates](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/landscape-architects-and-landscape-designers/shepard-butler-landscape-associates-pfvwus-pf~1635964883) ## Professional summary - **Primary category:** Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers - **Location:** Thetford Center, VT - **Serves:** Thetford Center - **Houzz rating:** 0.0 out of 5 (0 reviews) - **Best of Houzz:** 5 awards (2015–2021), for Design. ## About ### Houzz Badges - 25,000 Ideabook Saves With the successful completion of over 300 projects since 1991, Shepard Butler Landscape Design has established the importance of being true to the land, with a particular emphasis on the roles that mood, texture, scale, space, and color play in every design. We create timeless landscapes that maintain a sense of soulful simplicity and purity of material form. We strongly believe in the value of working directly with skilled craftsman and using a regionally appropriate plant pallet as a way of reconnecting even the smallest project back into the collective richness of its regional context. Our design philosophy is rooted in the belief that great landscape design is a partnership between the natural essence of the site and those who EXPERIENCE it, LIVE it, and USE it. We believe the most successful designs are those that can simultaneously embody the true spirit of the landscape while serving to integrate architecture seamlessly into the exterior environment. SBLA is a full service design office, with Vermont licensed Landscape Architects on staff, located in the Upper Valley Region of Vermont. ### Services Provided - Landscape Design - Garden Design - Landscape Plans - Patio Design - Site Planning - Custom Fire Pits - Pool Landscaping - Custom Water Features - Swimming Pool Design - Deck Design - Project Management - Drafting - Green Roofing - landscape architecture ### Areas Served - Thetford Center ## Business Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Business Name | Shepard Butler Landscape Associates | | Address | 1635 Tucker Hill Road, Thetford Center, Vermont 05075, United States | | Phone | (802) 785-2895 | | Website | http://www.sblainc.com | | Followers on Houzz | 86 | **Social profiles:** - Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/SBLAINC - Blog — www.sblainc.com ## Contact - **Houzz profile:** [Shepard Butler Landscape Associates](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/landscape-architects-and-landscape-designers/shepard-butler-landscape-associates-pfvwus-pf~1635964883) - **Website:** http://www.sblainc.com - **Phone:** (802) 785-2895 ## Credentials **Certifications & Awards** - 2007 VTASLA Merit Award for the Nature Center Entry Garden - 2009 VTASLA Award of Excellence for the Stone Pool - 2011 VTASLA Merit Award for the Waitsfield Pool - **Best of Houzz:** 5 awards (2015–2021), for Design. **Affiliations** - [American Society of Landscape Architects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/american-society-of-landscape-architects-pfvwus-pf~2014062207) ## Selected projects - [Amagansett Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/amagansett-residence-pj-vj~2786460) - Location: Amagansett, NY - Photos: 16 - Description: A red cedar boardwalk slicing through an expansive, planned Little Bluestem Meadow dotted with field collected Red Cedar, provides the foreground, entry, and wildlife playground into this animated, unconventional yet understated garden. Concrete, Stone, Wood, and untamed Grasses poetically and collectively dance through the site and around the newly constructed modernist, barn-like structure that makes up the home. Special attention was given to accommodating runoff water from the site and hence… - [Lake Camp](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/lake-camp-pj-vj~2786500) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 17 - Description: With over 1400 feet of lake frontage, Lake Camp is a four season, city reprieve on a pristine New England lake. Working collaboratively throughout the planning and design phases with the Boston Architectural firm Ann Beha Associates, SBLA carefully integrated a main residence, two guest houses, a bunkhouse, and a restored 19th century Maine barn onto an 80 acre site forested predominately with Hemlock, Oak, and Beech Trees. A series of garden rooms and interweaving stone and pine needle paths se… - [Peterborough Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/peterborough-garden-pj-vj~2778804) - Location: Peterborough, NH - Photos: 4 - Description: Mesmerized by the expanse of the gentle rolling hay fields, distant mountain views, and the untouched ancient farm walls restraining the untamed secondary successional forest growth, SBLA composed a series of thoughtfully interconnected garden rooms within the Peterborough Garden. The entry procession, parking court/ entry garden, north play lawn, east ephemeral woodland garden, and the south formal lawn and perennial gardens quietly rest within the new composition of structures by Sheldon Penno… - [Hanover Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/hanover-garden-pj-vj~2731308) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 14 - Description: Collaborating with BLBenn Architects, SBLA created a woodland inspired series of connected minimalist gardens encompassing a newly constructed contemporary residence in Hanover, New Hampshire. The entry garden and its spine of two juxtaposed stone walls, rest above a micro-forest of densely planted Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis). The garden creates an enticing yet mysterious approach to the main entry of the home. A set of stone steps at the elbow of the walls leads one down under the cano… - [Meadow House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/meadow-house-pj-vj~2673889) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 15 - [Occum](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/occum-pj-vj~1168883) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 25 - Description: Adjacent to the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire and home to a family of multi-generational Dartmouth Alumni, the gardens of Occum are a result of a carefully conceived blending of a newly built contemporary home and the existing fabric of a more traditional turn of the century neighborhood. Though little about the gardens of Occum are traditional, the inherit materials, forms, and plant palettes that make them up are. Line, form, and shadow played pivotal roles in creating a p… - [Woodstock Pool](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/woodstock-pool-pj-vj~838439) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 11 - Description: Set within a rolling, dramatic and open landscape with sweeping westerly views of the Green Mountains, the Woodstock Pool affords the client and their expanding family with a space for relaxation, peace, and fun. As in all of SBLA’s projects, the adjacent and borrowed landscape played a pivotal role in the planning and design of each of the spaces that make up the pool and gardens. All of the materials and plant choices are of the simplest form and distribution and allow for a conscious and unco… - [Miscellaneous](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/miscellaneous-pj-vj~1023690) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 7 - [Stone House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/stone-house-pj-vj~1021858) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 14 - Description: The Stone House garden occupies the site of the classic summer home in bucolic New Jersey. The primary framework, material choices, and plant palette for the garden were chosen in response to the agricultural landscape surrounding the site. Working in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects in New York, a series of intimate outdoor rooms were created in response to the apertures of the home, establishing a strong relationship between the interior and exterior spaces. Hand laid, native… - [Stone Pool](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/stone-pool-pj-vj~109772) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 8 - Description: Located on a rolling Northern Vermont mountain top, Stone Pool’s gracious arc set within an existing land depression awards the client with sweeping views towards Stowe’s infamous “Notch” and a pool that is integrated and inspired by the land. To enforce the concept of an understated expression of the land, pavement quantity around the pool was kept to a minimum allowing the existing landscape to flow visually and physically into the pool area. Large native stone slabs were hand picked by SBLA f… - [Cottage in the Woods](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/cottage-in-the-woods-pj-vj~290326) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 10 - Description: Centrally located in Vermont, the site for the Cottage in the Woods is situated on a dramatic upland site with active streams and commanding valley views. The landscape is perched on the edge of a wooded ravine that slopes steeply around the property on all sides. Existing site elements, including an exposed rock ledge and historic hedgerows were preserved, reworked, and incorporated into an arrangement of shifting and sliding rectangular forms that establish the spatial framework of the garden.… - [Barnard Farm](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/barnard-farm-pj-vj~109760) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 10 - Description: The Barnard Farm stretches over 500 acres in central Vermont and is the successful result of a two year multi discipline collaboration between SBLA and the Dallas, Texas based Architect, Ralph Duesing. Together, the team turned a once defunct dairy farm into a fully functioning Gentleman’s Farm. The farm now consists of a main residence, guest house, sugar house, a folly, gardens, pastures, a restored dairy barn, and numerous other farm structures to house the resident horse, cattle, alpaca, don… - [Spruce Farm- Phase 1](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/spruce-farm-phase-1-pj-vj~109752) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 12 - [Waitsfield Pool](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/waitsfield-pool-pj-vj~109757) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 9 - Description: Perched along a central Vermont mountainside by means of handcrafted stone walls and sculpted landforms, the Waistfield pool dramatically projects into the distant Green Mountain horizon. Core to SBLA’s fundamental beliefs, the forms, colors, and moods experienced from the encompassing landscape played an integral role in the planning and design of the pool and its adjacent features. The garden, with its native plant palette, is simple in form, soulful, and understated as stone weaves through it… [See all 14 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/landscape-architects-and-landscape-designers/shepard-butler-landscape-associates-pfvwus-pf~1635964883) ## Community Q&A **Q: What's the name of the large trees in the same garden bed as the ferns** *(in Photo Questions)* A: Quercus palustris 'Pringreen' **Q: Inviting water** *(in Photo Questions)* Can you tell me the pools finish and color please? A: Gunite Pool with Marcite Plaster- French Gray Color **Q: Hi - what is the decking material used around the pool?** *(in Photo Questions)* A: A schist stone from a small quarry in VT **Q: Plants** *(in Photo Questions)* Would you mind telling me what is placed around the pool? A: Dennstaedtia punctilobula, Hayscented Fern **Q: Love the stone that is used as a water fall. How is this done? What kind of stone. Love this!!** *(in Photo Questions)* A: The coping stone is from a very small local quarry in Vermont. It is a schist with no specific trade name. The waterfall stone was "found". --- *Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-11-11.*