Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in Toronto.

Leah Pine

Liliane Maschioro
Inspiration for a contemporary home design remodel in DC Metro

Photo of a traditional landscaping in New York.

Dan Alf
Home design - tropical home design idea in Orlando

Robert Cornell
This is an example of a traditional landscaping in Los Angeles.

Japanese Forest Grass Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' gradually emerges in early spring to camouflage the foliage of daffodils once they have finished blooming

5 years later, look how its grown, they now have a private secret garden!
Design ideas for a mid-sized rustic partial sun backyard concrete paver formal garden.

Driveway and stone bordering the walkway to the lake are Cambridge Belgian Cast Stone. Patio and walkway are Cabridge Ledgestone XL 3-piece pavers in Sandstone. Stone featured on the exterior and base walls of the home, as well as the walls around the patio are Eldorado Hillstone. The walls around the patio are caped with custom fabricated Indiana Limestone by Sivak Stonemasonry

Losing large specimen trees is never desirable. But when the unimaginable happens, we are presented with an opportunity to rethink and refresh, even in traditional residential settings. We replaced the lawn area beneath the remaining London plane with a fine fescue seed mix. Our design strategy was to hold space and create immediate impact while reducing maintenance needs as the landscape matured. Into this base, we planted evergreen basal foliage, long bloomers and early spring/late fall color to create an immersive all-season groundcover that will slowly intermingle. Annually, this low mow is cut no lower than 4” (thereby safeguarding habitat) while the tidily trimmed perimeter utilizes remnant turf grass as visible cues to care. Dissecting the rectilinear green space, permeable hardscaping offers a gently curved path towards the front entryway; an invitation to pause and observe the landscape’s diverse textures and activity up close. Within which, a legacy planting of new specimen trees. Traditional shrub heavy foundation plantings are often static and rigid; this perennial rich redesign is structured yet airy to retain design cohesion with the naturalistic stylized meadow and offer vibrant textural all-season interest. This project blends different landscape styles to create a biodiverse habitat that is ecologically beneficial, beautiful and resilient. In high summer, a doe finds refuge for her fawn while the family’s children delight in the buzzing activity of smaller inhabitants, native bees and assorted pollinators, that now call this habitat home.

Nick Ogilvie

Max McCumber
Example of a southwest home design design in Albuquerque