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 When
I met this client ten years ago, they made it clear they enjoy having an
outstanding outdoor environment that accommodates their lifestyle. They also
told me everywhere they have lived they always “upgrade the neighborhood.” I
quickly learned the first step in accomplishing this goal was challenging us
to stretch our capabilities.
That’s where we are today. Even though this phase was recently completed, we
know there is more to come. Over the years, the landscape has been
transformed from its original, prairie design with outcropping stone walls
and mostly native perennials and grasses. Today we admire a crisp and
carefully integrated and balanced design that is contemporary and fresh in
appearance. It offers more choices and is more flexible. Seasonal flower and
perennial combinations are easily refreshed to create new permutations by
simply changing the “modules.”
The basalt water fountain is the focal point of a unique radial design. This
architecture was extended to include the entire front property. Plant
selections, such as Green Mountain Boxwood, Shirobana Spirea, Annabelle
Hydrangea, Fothergilla gardenia, and Greenmound Currant are intended to
complement but never compete with the seasonal flowers.
 This
home enjoys impressive 360 degree views to the 1st, 10th, and 18th fairways
of The White Eagle Golf Club. We framed these views and gave them the focus
they deserve, while still providing privacy when desired. Visitors enjoy a
vista to the 18th tee and the 1st green through the wall and column on the
left front side of the home. Sunlight dancing on the water enhances the
idyllic view to the bridge. A more dramatic view is evident up the new
tumbled paver drive. A strategically located water fountain pulls the eye up
and through to the 18th fairway. When sunlight is not illuminating these
continuous and lucid streams of glass-like water, they are enhanced by fiber
optic light with choices of colors to match the mood. The design of the
water feature abstracts the window architecture around the primary living
space of the home, fusing landscape architecture with architecture.
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