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, by day and by 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 in rather than dates. It is 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 to $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 and 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 to $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 to $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. It is cut once a year and 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.