enviornment

I'm always looking for projects where I'm brought in to design the entire exterior environment, complete with hardscape, planting plans and watershapes.  Working this way gives me a straight shot at integrating all of these major elements into cohesive designs that fit the setting. But I believe in collaboration, too, and in giving interested clients an opportunity to participate in the process.  I listen carefully to what they say, factor in their budgets and then start working toward a suitable design.  This integrated approach often requires intensive and extensive interaction with homeowners.  Through it all, I'm flexible - but I'm also confident in my abilities, experience and expertise and generally end up installing something that closely matches my sense of the way things should be.   When it works, everything goes smoothly.  In the case of the project pictured in these pages, however, the process has been much more involved and is, 18 months into it, still ongoing in