Bruce John Riddell Landscape Architect, LLC is a one-person landscape architectural firm located in Boothbay, Maine with a satellite office in Bar Harbor, Maine. Riddell's focus is on horticulture, use of native plants, stonework, custom site furnishings and what he calls "LandArt," the integration of art into the landscape. For nearly 30 years he has worked on numerous public and private gardens in a diversity of scales that have garnered regional and national recognition for design excellence.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay

Braided paving contrasts man-made and natural elements, splicing the built and natural worlds together.
Photo by William S. Brehm

Bruce John Riddell designed signature garden planting plans, custom stone benches, waterfalls, and unique stonework at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. The design includes a Japanese-inspired Vayo Meditation Garden with a hillside amphitheater with large quarried stone. There are also hillside, entry and rose gardens, plus a great lawn and ceremonial and event lawns.

Bruce designed and helped construct a 20-foot picturesque waterfall made of a series of large slab granite basins for the Giles Rhododendron Garden. The falls plunge into a reflecting pool.
Photo by William S. Brehm

Riddell designed the tapestry of plantings that surround the rose garden arbor.
Photo by William S. Brehm

 
Photo by Robert Mitchell

Photo by Bruce John Riddell

Photo by William Brehm

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The Wright Garden, Bangor Maine

A natural-edged drilled boulder spills water gently onto a carved stone sluice, over a hand-forged bronze leaf into a pebble-lined basin.
Photos by William S. Brehm

This small backyard was designed for relaxation, self-reflection and immersion with nature. Native plants and groundcovers artfully mix with traditional Victorian plantings to create a picturesque garden, balancing beauty and formality with a wild and natural sense of place.

This residential garden is approached through a vaulted grape arbor designed by Bruce John Riddell.
Photo by William S. Brehm

Photo by Bruce John Riddell

Photo by Bruce John Riddell

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Patriot's Point - Bar Harbor, Maine

Photo by William S. Brehm

This idyllic coastal Maine garden combines stepping stone paths, stone slabs and boulders with formal entrance gardens, a sweeping great lawn, naturalized wildflower meadow, cultivated apple orchard, naturalistic ledge gardens and moss and fern beds.

Photo by William S. Brehm

Photo by William S. Brehm

Photo by William S. Brehm

Photo by William S. Brehm