beach entry

The project depicted here has been the professional challenge of a lifetime, says watershaper and landscape architect Kathy Marosz. It all started two years ago, when she began working with a highly imaginative client who refused to put any limits on what might be done. Subsequently, as she reports in the first of three articles on the results, her involvement grew from execution of a plan into a near-boundless exercise in creative collaboration.

When Dreams Grow

Some clients don’t know any limits when it comes to their ambitions – and that’s certainly been true in this case. His mountain-sized home is set on a relatively flat four-acre parcel in otherwise hilly Ramona, Calif. The client himself describes the building as looking like a casino, and indeed it does have a decidedly “eclectic” architectural look. What he wanted was a backyard to match – a free-wheeling composition that might best be described as a Tommy Bahama-inspired tropical resort. He let me know that the family