We often talk about clients whom we have known for years, and as a result have helped them develop their landscape one feature at a time. We feel these relationships are a testament to our personalized approach—we never look at each landscape or client in the same way. Another one of these long-standing relationships started in 1989 with a woman who moved to Noblesville and built a house in Wellington North East. We completed all of her initial landscaping and maintained it for several years. Over time she asked us to add here and expand there, until her yard became a full, rich landscape she thoroughly enjoys year-round.

A unique challenge we faced with her landscape design was that her basement was a foot taller than originally planned. As a result, her house stuck up and made the front yard look steep. We decided to create a design that would divide the front yard into two levels with long beds that would flow to the sides of the yard, resulting in a landscape that flowed together and tied back to the ground.

After that initial undertaking, our series of small projects began in the late 90’s, when we put in a paver concrete brick patio off her backyard deck. In 2000, she added a sunroom to her house and asked us to expand her deck to connect the new room and existing deck. The new space would also allow for a hot tub. Her house at the time rose a little above the other houses in the area, so to give her some privacy we constructed a pergola arbor around the hot tub and perimeter of the new deck. In the summer months, hanging plant baskets on the pergola gave her additional privacy. Since then, the plants we put in around the deck have grown up to create a year-round screen.

In 2005 our client began talking with us about putting in a water feature, when a large river birch in her back yard happened to die. This seemed like the perfect place and opportunity to put in a pond, so we dug out the tree and installed one for her. Now she can sit out on her deck and enjoy the sounds of the waterfall, the fish, and her beautiful lily pads.

Our client really loves her plants; her deck is full of pots for most of the year. With her, we chose a great mix of perennials, annuals, evergreens, flowering shrubs, and interesting trees like a Japanese maple and a weeping white pine to create a rich, multi-season landscape.

Every yard and every home has a unique situation that we want to work with, not around; the cookie-cutter scheme is not our approach. A multi-step design such as this one was possible because of our long-term relationship—we were with the client through each change and addition, resulting in a beautiful landscape that flows together in a cohesive design.