Imagine your residential landscape - an oasis and sanctuary where hummingbirds and butterflies flutter through a diverse kaleidoscope of native perennials. Drift into the future - see yourself dreaming on a hammock after taking a relaxing stroll through meandering garden paths with close friends. Realize this moment - where fiddle-head ferns stretch up through boulders and woodland wildflowers dance under the soft canopy of flowering trees and shrubs.
The goal of the Earth Design team is to achieve sustainability through creating diverse native plant communities. We strive to design and create landscapes that work in harmony with nature, delivering a lifetime of low maintenance enjoyment to our clients. We enrich the experience of sustainable residential landscapes through diverse ecological concepts by designing rain water harvesting systems such as rain barrels, bog gardens, and rain gardens. In addition, our native and natural landscapes achieve sustainability through the use of non-chemical fertilizers, water-saving xeriscape principles, fewer pest and disease problems, and minimal pruning and weeding.
As a design/build firm, Earth Design brings the art and science of landscape architecture and environmental design to your home providing nature-based outdoor spaces which are serene and inviting for both people and wildlife. These deliverables are realized in every project, regardless of scale or budget.
Portfolio
The Parisi Residence
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This residential landscape design shows Earth Design's rich palette of native and naturalized plants in a variety of colors and textures. It is a mature landscape, and a good example of what a newly installed plan will become after a few years of growth.
The design is appealing in its diversity and mix of sun and shade. Some areas of the backyard are wooded and make a beautiful settting for shade loving perennials, ferns, and wildflowers.
Other parts of the site are sunny and provide areas where native grasses and perennial mixes thrive and add color to the landscape.
The wild and natural look of the areas further from the house blends well with the home's architecture through transitional plantings that are more formal, and unify the design.
Stone walls and pavers help to achieve this balance between the architecture and the richly natural backyard. |
The Wech Residence
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The Wech Residence is a newer installation than the Parisi Residence, shown above, but it is a good example of the color and variety native and naturalized plants can add to a landscape within their first year of growth. Here, Earth Design took advantage of the site's natural beauty and enhanced views to the lake.
The site is very steep, and as a solution, stacked stone retainer walls were used throughout the project, in both the front and back of the house.
Boulders were used to further naturalize the site, and work well in the naturally steep landscape. Throughout the year, this landscape continues to provide different points of interest and color, as plant material responds to seasonal change.
This is true of all Earth Design's work, for the desigers take care to give the client many rich layers of interest. |
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