Beyond the Garden: Designing Home Landscapes with Natural Systems

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From the Publisher Explore example projects from Beyond the Garden Channeling rainwater in the high desert Project: Woven Plains Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Size: 2.5 acres Designer: Surroundings Studio When Kenneth Francis of Surroundings Studio was brought in to the project, the clients had recently relocated to the high desert from the suburbs of Midland, Texas. Based on years of experience designing in a desert climate, he established a water ethic from the start of the project. The design adapts a centuries-old agricultural technique, known as an acequia, as a piece of modern stormwater infrastructure— a symbiotic irrigation system to support the clients’ desire for a lush, vibrant garden in a semiarid landscape. Beneficial disturbances in ecological gardening Project: Millersville Meadows and Garden Location: Millersville, Pennsylvania Size: 2.8 acres Designer: Larry Weaner Associates Larry Weaner's work reimagines the potential of the residential garden as an opportunity to support local ecologies by restoring native landscapes and teaching people how to care for them. At the garden in Millersville, a rural enclave west of Philadelphia, the client, a sophisticated horticulturalist, approached Weaner about designing the landscape around their new home, which sits on nearly three acres, using only native species and transitioning to a more ecologically focused approach to maintenance. Historic preservation in coastal Acadia Project: Northeast Harbor Location: Mount Desert Island, Maine Size: 5 acres Designer: STIMSON When Stimson and her team arrived at the site, a fiveacre slice of Charles Eliot’s former 120-acre property, the history embedded in the local ecology had been all but erased. The land had been blasted in preparation for the construction of the new home, leaving a massive hole where a few remaining conifers clung to a thin layer of topsoil sitting on nearly a foot of ledge. The restoration efforts were extensive, unfolding over several years, to mitigate the damage from the blasting and restore the native planting to reflect the ecology characteristic of the area when Acadia first became a national park. The anti-garden and the paradox of rewilding Project: The Anti-Garden Location: Sussex, England Size: 4 acres Designer: Jinny Blom The anti-garden dissolves the rules of a traditional garden. It is ephemeral and abundant, evoking a sense of endless discovery. Though it appears “wild,” with life emerging from every crack in the stone walkways, the anti-garden is neither unmanaged nor passive. It is highly contextualized and intentional—free in spirit yet rooted firmly in place. Mediating boundaries at the urban-wildlife interface Project: Ketchum Residence Location: Ketchum, Idaho Size: 0.5 acres Designer: Lutsko Associates Located just outside the town of Ketchum, this property abuts the rugged foothills of the Sawtooth Mountains and is surrounded by single-family homes. By dissolving the property line into the foothills beyond, Lutsko created the sense that standing on the half-acre lot felt like being on a thousand-acre ranch. The design forges a visual connection with the larger ecosystem by weaving hyperlocal plant species found in the nearby meadows into the immediate landscape around the house. Designing for beauty and resiliency in the Florida Keys Project: Coccoloba Garden Location: Islamorada, Florida Size: 7 acres Designer: Raymond Jungles The vegetation had just begun to fill in and transform the seven-acre coastal property into a landscape teeming with local flora and fauna when Hurricane Irma had made landfall as a Category 4 storm in the Florida Keys. Compared to other properties affected by the storm, the Coccoloba Garden recovered with remarkable speed, thriving again within six months. Raymond Jungles, landscape architect and longtime resident of southern Florida, attributes the site’s recovery to the design’s proliferation of native plants. Building urban habitat with green roofs Project: Greenwich Avenue Location: New York, New York Size: 3,500 square feet Designer: Alive Structures For a top-floor apartment with a 3,500-square-foot roof in the West Village, Majorelle created a garden that mirrors the curated wild of the High Line while capitalizing on the unique set of conditions afforded by an elevated landscape. Eight stories up, the garden floats above the canopy line where gusts of wind, unobstructed by trees, tousle swaths of grasses around mounding perennials and shrubs, creating a sense of movement and topographic relief amid an otherwise static horizon. Recycling stone in Santa Barbara Project: Pedregosa Location: Santa Barbara, California Size: 4,800 square feet Designer: Grace Design Associates An internationally renowned artist and a Broadway singer, the clients approached Grace with a vision for a contemplative yet lively space, evocative of their Midwestern roots but also appropriate to Santa Barbara’s Mediterranean climate, one that required minimal mai

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