The Residential Issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News saw many firms submit their projects for feature consideration. Kenwood is one of several great projects we are excited to showcase on LandscapeArchitect.com.

 
When our clients completed the renovation and addition of their Federalist home, they were ready to address their landscape. The larger corner lot presented a challenge: a narrow rear yard that had been bedeviled with drainage problems.

At the entry to the house, protecting a large red maple in the front yard was of great importance. Rather than replace the asphalt horseshoe drive entirely, we hand-excavated a smaller portion to place a more formal entry pad of tumbled herringbone brick and a bluestone band.

A smaller side terrace off the living room begins the passage to the lower rear gardens. We sited a fireplace lounge area at the end of a larger dining terrace and sheltered both with a natural cedar pergola. Pendant lights and a fan are hung from the pergola and climbing roses have begun to provide a bower of summer color. The dining terrace is set on axis with a gracious pool, backed against a lush garden of Amsonia, Hydrangea, Fothergilla, ferns, and arborvitae. The structural elements not only relate beautifully together, but they also act as a dam, intercepting and conveying water to the larger lawn downhill of the pool.

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