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Every garden starts with a problem

A slope, a shadow, a house that sits wrong on its lot. Each project below starts with what was wrong, then what we drew and what we built.

Wide stone steps climbing through layered shade planting to a lawn terrace Stone steps edged with ferns and purple liriope

Burr Ridge · 2025

A hillside terrace

Problem
A twelve-foot drop from house to creek, water heading for the foundation and no flat ground
Plan
Three terraces joined by wide stone steps, with the slope between them planted for shade
Materials
Wisconsin fieldstone walls, bluestone treads, ferns, hellebores, native sedges
A stone patio with dark wood chairs around a fire pit beside the house

Western Springs · 2024

A fire terrace off the kitchen

Problem
A deck that had rotted out and a back door that opened onto nothing
Plan
A stone terrace at floor level, so the kitchen steps straight out, with a fire pit sized for six chairs
Materials
Thermal-finish limestone, a natural gas fire pit, low-voltage step lights
Clipped hedges and loose planting inside an old brick-walled garden Clipped boxwood hedging in soft light

Hinsdale · 2024

A walled kitchen garden

Problem
A sunny side yard behind an old brick wall, used for nothing but storing the bins
Plan
Low boxwood beds for vegetables and cutting flowers, laid out on the axis of the dining room window
Materials
Reclaimed brick paths, boxwood edging, espaliered pears on the wall
A garden seen through a black steel pergola with tall ornamental grasses

Oak Brook · 2023

A pergola court for a modern house

Problem
A new flat-roofed house on a bare lot, with full sun and nowhere to sit in it
Plan
A steel pergola framing the view, with drifts of grasses that hold their shape through winter
Materials
Powder-coated steel, decomposed granite, switchgrass, prairie dropseed
A clipped boxwood parterre seen from above, with tall evergreens behind

Clarendon Hills · 2023

A parterre for the view from upstairs

Problem
A formal Georgian house with a plain lawn behind it and a stair landing that looked straight down at it
Plan
A boxwood parterre drawn to be read from above, green all twelve months
Materials
Boxwood, pea gravel, a pair of columnar evergreens to close the view

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