OutdoorPractice

Learning garden in progress, set to open this summer ☀️

Design:
School:
General Contractor: Q19

Thank you and for making your April 2026 Backstory feature. We love this project and we love celebrating World Landscape Architecture Month with y’all!

Flew all the way to Japan to see spring’s most famous cherry blossoms pop 🌸 Here’s our camera roll from our trip to Japan last month, finding beauty and inspiration in the gardens and city architecture as well 🇯🇵

This is who you’re asking to run 🥹 Here is our fearless leader Jonathan standing proudly beside the first garden he ever designed!

Timeless design often begins with simplicity.

For this project, our goal was to create a landscape that feels quietly elegant — defined by clean lines, thoughtful modern touches for entertaining, and a design that will feel just as relevant years from now as it does today.

Elevation changes guide movement through the space, while genuine materials ground the design with texture and permanence. Carefully framed sight lines create moments of pause, and layered plantings introduce contrast and softness against the architecture. 🌿

Design:
Landscape Contractor:
Home Builder: Abercrombie Custom Homes

This Aspen residence sits somewhere between wild and intentional. From the start, I didn’t want it to feel overly composed or controlled. The goal was to let the landscape breathe!

Planting leans into that balance. There’s a softness to it, a sense that it could keep evolving over time, but it’s grounded by a clear framework that keeps it legible and easy to move through. Spaces open up where they need to, and paths lead you to where they want you to go but never forced.

What I love most is how it feels as you move through it. You’re never entirely sure where the landscape stops, and the mountain begins.

When you don't have a pool...you just have to create one.