Modern Formal
The Ravine Farmhouse
A new modern farmhouse above the ravine needed a landscape with the same discipline as its architecture — and enough green mass to soften all that crisp siding.
Kestrel Hill · 2025 · Investment $300,000 +
The style quiz
Find your garden's language
Four questions, two minutes. We'll name the design language you're drawn to, show you the built projects that speak it, and — if you like what you see — carry your answers straight into a consult request.
The four questions
Your garden style
Your design language
Modern Formal
Geometry does the talking: large-format paving, panel lawns, clipped hedge frames and a deliberately short plant list repeated with discipline. The garden reads as one composed thought — day and night.
Signature materials
- Architectural concrete panels
- Sawn bluestone
- Corten steel edging
- Turf-jointed paving
Signature plants
- Boxwood ‘Green Mountain’
- Hakone grass
- Allium ‘Globemaster’
- Columnar hornbeam
Your design language
Naturalistic Meadow
The new-perennial approach: matrix planting of grasses and long-season perennials in generous drifts, gravel paths mown through, and four honest seasons — including a standing winter. Less lawn, more life.
Signature materials
- Crushed granite paths
- Weathered fieldstone
- Steel-edged gravel
- Locally milled oak
Signature plants
- Fountain grass
- Coneflower ‘Magnus’
- Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
- Little bluestem
- Mountain mint
Your design language
Classic Estate
Gardens with lineage: axial paths, dressed natural stone, evergreen structure and generous flowering shrubs. Built heavy so it settles rather than dates — the landscape a stone house deserves.
Signature materials
- Full-range granite setts
- Thermal bluestone treads
- Fieldstone walls
- Cast stone urns
Signature plants
- Hydrangea ‘Limelight’
- Boxwood parterre
- Climbing hydrangea
- Littleleaf linden allée
Your design language
Outdoor Living Retreat
The garden as extra square footage: sheltered terraces, a structure to retreat to, layered screening for privacy and lighting that makes 9pm the best hour of the day. Designed around how you actually host.
Signature materials
- Cedar screens & cladding
- Porcelain terrace paving
- Basalt fire surrounds
- Warm-white lighting
Signature plants
- Japanese maple
- Emerald Green arborvitae
- Ostrich fern
- Climbing roses on cedar
Built projects that speak it
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Modern Formal
Low Sun Court
A mid-century ranch with a brutal western sun and a cracked asphalt drive became a serene white-and-green composition that peaks at golden hour.
Fernway · 2024 · Investment $150,000 – $300,000
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Classic Estate
Stonebridge Arrival
A stone-and-stucco estate deserved better than cracked stamped concrete. We rebuilt the entire arrival sequence in full-range granite — drive, terraces, steps — to look a century old on day one.
Harrow Point · 2025 · Investment $300,000 +
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Outdoor Living Retreat
The Quarry Lane Courtyard
A walled city backyard, overlooked on three sides, became a private evening room under one perfectly placed Japanese maple.
Old Quarry · 2024 · Investment $75,000 – $150,000
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Outdoor Living Retreat
A Writer's Garden Studio
A novelist needed forty steps between breakfast and the desk. We built a cedar-clad studio at the end of a gravel court, wrapped in a garden that does its best work in October.
Alderbrook · 2023 · Investment $150,000 – $300,000
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Naturalistic Meadow
Kestrel Hill Meadow
Half an acre of thirsty lawn became a fountain-grass meadow with mown paths — cut once a year, alive the other 364 days.
Kestrel Hill · 2023 · Under $75,000
The right first step
We've noted your answers. Book the free walk-through and they'll be waiting in the consult form — a principal designer will walk your property with your style already in mind.