This is a Sandy Springs residence with a very steep backyard that is lightly wooded. The homeowners want to establish some privacy in the front yard, enlarge their driveway for additional parking. They also wanted to update the long neglected backyard with a new deck, screened in porch and to establish native plants to enhance the beauty of their backyard and provide habitat for birds and pollinators.
Click to view a 3d flyover rendering of the landscape plan.This is a Decatur residence with a shady backyard that slopes down to a small water retention culvert. This homeowner grew up in this house and inherited it from her parents. She wanted to update the backyard with native plants, while keeping many of the traditional southern plants that her parents had planted when building the house. A path was put into the backyard and shade loving wildflowers, shrubs and ferns were added to provide year-round interest and habitat for birds and pollinators.
Click here to view a 3d flyover rendering of the landscape planThis is a Decatur residence with an open sunny backyard. This family has small children and wants to create some designated spaces in the backyard for adult gatherings, a children’s playground, and raised vegetable beds. They also wanted to add in native shrubs, trees, and perennials to provide habitat for wildlife and pollinators. The backyard has a gentle slope down to a DeKalb County creek that has been covered with Kudzu. We put together a plan to remove the invasives, and native plants to help establish the creek line.
Click here to view a 3D flyover rendering of the landscape plan.This residence is located close to Emory in an established neighborhood. The owner’s wanted to update the front yard with native perennials to provide an inviting entrance to the house. They also wanted to create a butterfly garden next to the backyard, and add in native shrubs, trees, wildflowers and ferns to enhance their lovely backyard.
Clck here to view a 3D flyover rendering of the landscape planA Dunwoody home with an HOA and a woody backyard wanted to add in some native foundation shrubs and create a native wildflower walk in the backyard as well as a sunny perennial bed. This plan features spectacular spring wildflowers, ferns, and native perennials to nurture birds and pollinators all year around. Click here to view a 3d flyover rendering of the landscape plan
Diane Tidwell, Woodstock GA: Front yard design for wildlife habitat that is deer proof. This yard is in a HOA neighborhood and we were mindful of what the neighbors would see and plant choice.
Sagamore Hills Elementary School: Sagamore is a STEM school in DeKalb County. Stephanie Spencer, the STEM teacher received a grant to put in a bird garden at the end of the courtyard on a hillside. All plants are chosen for their usefulness for birds on a year-round basis.
Henderson Park Native Plant and Wildlife Walk: This is a pollinator garden at the front entrance to the park. It is in the process of being installed as of 4/20/2020. A grant was received to purchase plants and the city of Tucker Parks and Recreation approved the plan.
Marylu Stevens, Big Canoe, GA: This was a new construction house in 2018. Big Canoe has a very strict HOA that provides a plant list for homeowners that consists of mostly native plants. These houses are in a heavily wooded area that is browsed very heavily by deer. The plants were chosen specifically to be deer tolerant.
Stephen and Elecia Crowley, Atlanta, GA. This is a 1940’s house that was renovated and the yard was destroyed during construction. The plan includes a back and front yard redo
Madeline Griffin: Erosion control in front yard with large existing Plum tree with native plantings and rain garden.
Dr Deb and Dr. Byron Rosenstein: Native plant redesign for beach home on golf course in Isle of Palms.
Aimee Longenecker Chen: Native landscape plan for family in Decatur.
Kingscliff: Redesign of front yard with native plants for rental tenants
Kathy Cavelero: Native plant landscape update for an established Atlanta, GA home.
