Posts Tagged ‘Meditative Spaces’
A Shady Sanctuary
At its heart, intricately carved wooden posts support colorful shade sail overhead cover, delivering playful charm, sensible comfort and vibrant accent in the enclosed garden space. Beneath the sail canopy, a lush pocket garden brims with cheerful herbaceous perennial flower borders, offering bursts of delightful accent color and seasonal interest. Songbirds, busy bees and butterflies…
Read MoreA Moorish Courtyard Design
The influence of the Islamic kingdom is underestimated in the historic development of the classical architecture of Europe. In particular, the intricate adornments, the repeating patterns, characteristic archways, lattice and fretwork, ironworks and other elements have been the architectural underpinnings of the vernacular we now accept as “English” garden design fundamentals. In this project, a…
Read MoreA Japanese Stroll Garden
Nestled within lush greenery in a forested area of Salem, this garden was developed as the fusion of the temperate Pacific Northwest casual vernacular and the Japanese stroll garden (see below) stylings of the Far East school of landscape design. This property exhibits the way in which design can draw one to various meditative and…
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