Frank Crandall
Example of a classic exterior home design in Providence

Landscape Lighting for Pool Area

Custom design and installation of LED outdoor lighting and landscape lighting in Flower Mound, TX. We accented their homes curb appeal using lights on the in the garden and landscape beds. This was to highlight seasonal color, light to highlight the columns and finally light installed to highlight the trees

Custom design and installation of LED outdoor lighting and landscape lighting in Flower Mound, TX. We accented their homes curb appeal using lights on the in the garden and landscape beds. This was to highlight seasonal color, light to highlight the columns and finally light installed to highlight the trees

Custom design and installation of LED outdoor lighting and landscape lighting in Flower Mound, TX. We accented their homes curb appeal using lights on the in the garden and landscape beds. This was to highlight seasonal color, light to highlight the columns and finally light installed to highlight the trees

From the front entry, this view captures the layered composition of the redesigned front yard. In the foreground, newly planted shrubs and perennials are set in dark mulch, ready to grow and bring fullness to the space. The lawn and softly contoured grass mound sit just beyond, adding shape and movement to the landscape. Framing it all is the curved retaining wall, close enough to appreciate its elegant form and mix of creamy stone and smooth beige cap. The combination of plantings, texture, and structure brings new life and interest to what was once a flat, plain yard.

A pair of world travelers with a deep love of Japan asked JMMDS to design a Japanese-inspired landscape that would complement the contemporary renovation of their home in Edinburgh, Scotland. JMMDS created a plan that included a handsome cut-stone patio, meandering stepping stone paths, sweeping bed lines, stony mounds, a grassy pool of space, and swaths of elegant plantings. JMMDS was on site during the installation to craft the mounds and place the plants and stones. Julie Moir Messervy set out the ancient pieces of gneiss from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. With the planting design, JMMDS sought to evoke the feeling of a traditional Japanese garden using locally suitable plants. The designers and clients visited nurseries in search of distinctive plant specimens, including cloud-pruned hollies, craggy pines, Japanese maples of varied color and habit, and a particularly notable Japanese snowbell tree. Beneath these, they laid drifts of sedges, hellebores, European gingers, ferns, and Solomon’s Seal. Evergreen azaleas, juniper, rhododendrons, and hebe were clustered around the lawn. JMMDS placed bamboos within root-controlled patio beds and planted mondo grass, sedums, and mosses among the stepping stones. Project designers: Julie Moir Messervy, Principal; Erica Bowman, Senior Landscape Architect Collaborators: Helen Lucas Architects, Steven Ogilvie (garden installers) Photography: Angus Bremner

A pair of world travelers with a deep love of Japan asked JMMDS to design a Japanese-inspired landscape that would complement the contemporary renovation of their home in Edinburgh, Scotland. JMMDS created a plan that included a handsome cut-stone patio, meandering stepping stone paths, sweeping bed lines, stony mounds, a grassy pool of space, and swaths of elegant plantings. JMMDS was on site during the installation to craft the mounds and place the plants and stones. Julie Moir Messervy set out the ancient pieces of gneiss from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. With the planting design, JMMDS sought to evoke the feeling of a traditional Japanese garden using locally suitable plants. The designers and clients visited nurseries in search of distinctive plant specimens, including cloud-pruned hollies, craggy pines, Japanese maples of varied color and habit, and a particularly notable Japanese snowbell tree. Beneath these, they laid drifts of sedges, hellebores, European gingers, ferns, and Solomon’s Seal. Evergreen azaleas, juniper, rhododendrons, and hebe were clustered around the lawn. JMMDS placed bamboos within root-controlled patio beds and planted mondo grass, sedums, and mosses among the stepping stones. Project designers: Julie Moir Messervy, Principal; Erica Bowman, Senior Landscape Architect Collaborators: Helen Lucas Architects, Steven Ogilvie (garden installers) Photography: Angus Bremner

Design ideas for a large traditional partial sun front yard stone formal garden in Dallas for spring.

Left to right. the Chamacyparis Torulosa Pom Pom, behind it is a Thuja Rheingold on Standard. The Tall tree is Cedar of Lebanon. the 3 balls in front are Chamacyparis Psifera gold mop. a weeping blue spruce, weeping Japanese maple Tamayukama, Miss Molly Butterfly bushes are behind the yellow balls. The green ground cover is Mazus Reptans. Whew!

Landscaping In Long Beach, CA Photo by A-List Builders Fresh lain lawn, concrete pavers, botanical plants, stone boulders.
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Laurel Way Beverly Hills modern home zen garden under floating stairs. Photo by William MacCollum.
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Photo by Jay Sifford.
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Brian Parks
Example of a classic stone patio design in Seattle with a fire pit and no cover

Karen Bussolini
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional partial sun backyard stone landscaping in New York.