Houston Texas Garden

We have been in contact with the owner of a home in Houston, Texas, who invited us to design a series of gardens and landscapes that complement and extend the theme of the Mediterranean from his home in the landscape. This house, sitting on a large plot of several acres in a remote area near Memorial Drive in the 610. The house has a symmetrical, despite the linear appearance of two-story building, and our client wanted a landscape and garden design that follows the same principles of self-contained fine linear and regular. Creating a Mediterranean theme in a garden in Houston, Texas and the scenery is a bit more complex "than might appear at first sight. The south coast of Europe, especially Italy and Greece is a mountainous area, where homes and gardens are built at steep angles and sharp rises vertically. gardens and fields were built on terraces that climb the mountains due to the limited area of the plant and rough, rocky terrain. Limestone is the rock type in Italy and Greece and has become an icon in this part of the world, in our collective consciousness. Houses and gardens of the Mediterranean are historically famous for its white stucco walls, green olive and carefully sculpted, embedded in a limestone. The challenge was to take an essentially three-dimensional style of landscape and its transfer to a property in Houston. As we all know, this part of Texas is very flat, so a hillside garden is out of the question, in the literal sense. Without However, using a combination of symmetrical forms and linear progressions, along with some innovative materials in the garden, we were able to mimic some aspects of the sea, the land of Europe. The key to doing is to establish a combination of circular and linear models key to the garden we have designed. The French and Italian gardens to put a strong emphasis on order and symmetry, and both tend to use angles to determine the right way. We have planted a variety of low growth around the house and backyard pool to emphasize its walls and corners. Then he added three forms dominates the landscape of Houston to create an equivalent of a Mediterranean garden. The first of these forms was a knot garden centered on the front door, which is right in motorcourt front of the house. boxwood planted in three rows that seemed circular terraces on a hill. At the center of the garden, we planted Loropatalum knot, marked by a solitary Crinum lily as the centerpiece. Loropatalum purpura of attention, and the vertical dimension added by the lily draws him upward to the entrance in front of the house. After moving from one side of the house, became a significant part of the yard in a parterre garden, which focused in a large glass hall that stretched from the west wing of the house. This garden was populated by low-growing roses whose susceptibility to constant cutting makes an ideal material for planting in the gardens of the Parterre, and colorful flowers that distinguish them from one point of view during this quarter in Houston. The borders were made garden with box hedges, and the main streets were built with limestone gravel imitate European color of the limestone rocks in the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. Therefore, to complete the project with the addition of dwarf yaupon, a small shrub that has a curious resemblance to the clouds, along the borders of the gravel roads. This has helped to create the impression that the garden was situated on a hill near the sea and the clouds were rolling across the coast. One of the interesting features of this Houston, Texas, the property is its stunning location. The back of the front yard 50 feet throat slit in the earth, a major tributary of Buffalo Bayou. This seemed a natural destination for visitors to visit the garden after strolling the west wing of the house to the pool. Encourage them to do so, we planted an alley of crepe myrtles that from the pool area all the way through the woods along the creek. then built a road block of limestone aggregate that began Parterre garden, flanked the house to the pool, and then rushed down the avenue of trees to scenic view of the forest and stream.