Blowing Rock, Bishop's Ridge neighborhood landscape design
Finished landscape a couple of years afer installation.
Neighboring house several years after installation
The challenge of this property is its position relative to the road (see photo of house under construction). Landscape plantings are used to draw attention to the house and away from the slope coming off the road immediately in front of it. The slope is softened by plantings. Every effort is made to draw attention to the hard won flat lawn.
Another view of neighboring house, several years after landscape installation.
Notice how the flat lawn area was created by steepening the slope up to the road. Compare with the photo of the house during construction. The steepened slope is then obscurred by intensive plantings which call attention to themselves rather than the slope.
Finshed landscape several years after installation
Landscape plantings were used to create an edge along the top of the slope (see photo of site during construction), in order to conceal the slope from view. A combination of landscape plantings and minimal retaining wall obscure the drop off, rather than an extensive, expensive, hazardous and unsightly large retaining wall.
Neighboring house several years after installation
The challenge of this property is its position relative to the road (see photo of house under construction). Landscape plantings are used to draw attention to the house and away from the slope coming off the road immediately in front of it. The slope is softened by plantings. Every effort is made to draw attention to the hard won flat lawn.
Another view of neighboring house, several years after landscape installation.
Notice how the flat lawn area was created by steepening the slope up to the road. Compare with the photo of the house during construction. The steepened slope is then obscurred by intensive plantings which call attention to themselves rather than the slope.
Finshed landscape several years after installation
Landscape plantings were used to create an edge along the top of the slope (see photo of site during construction), in order to conceal the slope from view. A combination of landscape plantings and minimal retaining wall obscure the drop off, rather than an extensive, expensive, hazardous and unsightly large retaining wall.
Neighboring house several years after installation
The challenge of this property is its position relative to the road (see photo of house under construction). Landscape plantings are used to draw attention to the house and away from the slope coming off the road immediately in front of it. The slope is softened by plantings. Every effort is made to draw attention to the hard won flat lawn.
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