5200 River Road, Bldg. 5
Bethesda, MD 20816
Tel: 301-652-8844
Fax: 301-907-8070

 
Award-Winning Gardens
 
Bethesda, MD Residence

2007 Grand Award, Landscape Contractors Association of MD/VA/DC
2007 Award of Distinction, PLANET Environmental Improvement Awards
Designer: Melissa Clark, APLD

         
 
Topographical challenges provided the inspiration for this front garden in Bethesda. To address major drainage problems posed by the site, we installed a dry streambed in front of the house, following the line of an existing swale. Connecting the streambed to a county culvert paralleling the side street, we filled the streambed area beds with mixed plantings designed to withstand both heavy rains and occasional drought, while providing seasonal interest.

Front garden   Culvert area
Place cursor over images at left and above to see the site before work on the front garden and culvert areas was begun.
   

Chevy Chase, MD Residence

First Place, 2004 Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) Residential Design Award ("Under $25,000" Category)
Designer: Melissa Clark, APLD


In this award-winning landscape renovation, the owners had inherited a mature but long-neglected assortment of mature trees and shrubs, a stacked-stone retaining wall overgrown with ivy, and a narrow brick walkway behind the house that was visually unappealing.

The new design utilized existing plantings where possible, adding trees, shrubs and perennials chosen to harmonize with the woodland setting. It also created two separate outdoor spaces along the walkway by breaking it up with an arbor lushly planted with hydrangeas and shade-tolerant perennials, and included a "magic garden" ringed by perennials with bell-like flowers for their young daughter underneath the shelter of a large oak tree.

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