Behind The Scenes 2018 Featured Home – Nature’s Expressions

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Behind The Scenes 2018 Featured Home

• Natures Expressions

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The NEI Team conference takes place every year to
select a project that best represents our skills
and capabilities. We also review the projects
that stretched us creatively to accomplish our
best work. It is not on just one landscape
because we often have many distinct projects from
the year. The successive is our featured home
for 2018.
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We value and appreciate John and Freda trusting
us with their project. John wasnt confident
exactly what he desired but supposed there were
remarkable challenges with his property and
sought our landscape service on landscape designs
and deal with the steep grades. The yard had a
pool and a worsening retaining wall. His artist
wife, was in expectation of something unique
style.   A budgetary decision required in the
part of the primary design process.  This
investment forced the question, Should we skip
and find other place that would be better for
us?  After examining other properties, the path
was clear. Construct this the place that we want
it to be, and that is what we had done. Though
the house is entirely formal, John and Freda
appreciated how the structure of the design
loosens as it gets further from the house.  A
blending of formal and informal was established
through structured plant selections and raised
planting areas close to the house and a
combination of loose evergreens, flowering trees
and ferns further into the garden.   The couple
worked to include native plants with texture and
color. Pollinating wildflowers were planted to
aid honey bees across the edge of the property.
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Around the pool, the utilitarian requirement of
fencing once made that space feel like a playpen.
 On moving the fence just up the hill and adding
a new patio, with natural stones and a firepit,
created a fascinating space to be
explored. Large natural stones near the
waterfall, let people to rest for a while and
glance the beautiful sights and listen to the
sounds of the moving water.  The placement of the
water feature can be seen from the dining room
window. Another significant criteria for this
project was Lighting .  Guests are greeted and
welcomed with a sizeable set of natural stone
steps, with subtle lighting.  Wandering in the
garden, uplighting on ornamental trees and
hardscape lights fixed into the walls allow for
ease of movement and a warm glow for evening
entertaining.
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The style the project evolved required things to
be deliberately made imperfect, yet appropriate
and relevant.  As the appreciation of art
requires something else from the observer, this
project is highly appreciated with time spent in
the space.  Not everything is obvious and
therefore, it invites you to stay for a while.