Landscaping ideas for Hill

Landscaping ideas for Hill

Landscaping ideas for Hill

We were contacted by the owner of a house in Houston, Texas, who asked us to design a series of gardens and landscaping features that would compliment and expand the Mediterranean theme of his house in the landscapesurrounding. This Parliament Saturday on a very large party of several acres in a remote Memorial Drive area located near the 610 loop. The home featured a symmetrical, linear appearance in spite of her two-story building, and our customer wanted landscape and a garden design that these same principles of self-contained regularity and subtle linear motion would follow.

The creation of a Mediterranean theme in Houston, Texas garden landscape and is a bit more complex that it Mightiness appear at nominal value. The southern coast of Europe-especially in Italy and Greece-is a mountanous area where houses and gardens be strengthened on steep angles and sharp vertical rises. Gardens and fields are often reinforced in terraces that climb the mountains thanks to the limited planting area and rough, rocky terrain. Limestone is the dominant rock type in Italy and Greece and iconic in our collective consciousness of this part of the world. Mediterranean ar historic houses and gardens famous for their white stucco walls, olive groves and carefully sculpted green embedded in a rugged limestone background.

The challenge lay in taking a style basically three-dimensional landscaping and move it to a property of Houston. As we all know, is this part of Texas very flat, so Hill a garden out of the question in the literal sense. However, using a combination of symmetric forms and linear progressions, with some innovative garden materials, we were able to mimicker different aspects of European sea area.

The key to doing this was to be a composition of circular forms and linear patterns in the multiple garden elements that we designed. French and Italian gardens places a heavy emphasis on order and symmetry, and both tend to make use of right angles to form. We planted a variety of low level growth around the House and the rear pool terrace to emphasize her walls and corners. We then added three tonic Forms landscape to to make a Houston equivalent of a Mediterranean garden.

The first of these forms was a knot garden centered on the front door, located just in front of the House motor court. We planted boxwoods in three circular rows that looked like terraces on Hilla. We planted in the middle of the garden Loropatalum button, punctuated with a solitary Crinum Lily as the center piece. The rich purple of the Loropatalum attracts catches the eye, and the vertical dimension added by the lily pulls up to the front door of the House.

Move than to one side of the House, we are a significant part of the yard is transformed into a parterre garden centered on a large glass room which extended from the Western wing of the House. This garden was populated by low-growth rose bushes whose collaboration with constant trimming them an ideal plant material for the parterre Garden, and whose colorful flowers created a noticeable from multiple viewpoints in this neighborhood of Houston. The garden borders were made of boxwood Hedges, and the Central pathways were created using European limestone gravel that the color of the limestone cliffs of the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea imitates. We rounded than the design by dwarf yaupon, a small shrub that a curious resemblance to clouds, all within the limits of the gravel walkways contributes to add. This helped create the impression that the garden was located on an eyebrow in the vicinity of the sea, and that the clouds rolled crossways the coastline.

One of the most attractive features of this property in Houston, Texas is the excellent location. The back of the garden borders a 50-foot ravine carved out of the Earth by a major tributary of Buffalo Bayou. This seemed to us a natural destination spot for garden guests to visit after a walk around the West Wing of the House at the pool. To encourage them to do this, we planted an alley of crepe myrtles leads from the swimming pool all the way back to the forest along the ravine. We reinforced than a footbridge from limestone aggregate blocks which began Astatine the parterre Garden, walked to the swimming pool next to the House, then ran right through the alley of trees to the scenic overlook of the forest and stream below.