We'll be visiting this beauty on our Boulder day. The landscape design won a Silver Award in the 2016 International Landscape Design Awards from the Association for Professional Landscape Designers in the category, “Residential Projects under $25,000”. The project’s focus was to create a sense of arrival at the front entry, maintain open views and create a design that would provide shelter and food to migrating and local birds.
The property itself rests on the edge of dedicated open space with
a clear view of the mountains from inside of the home. “Open space”
is a term I had not heard of before moving to Colorado. In Colorado, open space is commonly defined as: Publicly-owned land that is preserved from
urbanization (paving or building). There is, thankfully, a lot of that in this area. Colorado open space is usually accessible to
the public, but may also be leased for agriculture.
A custom water feature was designed to serve as a focal point from
inside the home and to upscale the entrance. The stone for the water feature
was hand selected and precision cut at a stone mill, preassembled to check for
fit then transported and built on site.
It snows year-round in Colorado (just kidding!). You do see a lot of snow-in-summer (Cerastium tomentosum ) though. It makes a very nice accent with the pink dianthus, bronze penstemon, and golden spirea that line the driveway, along with various grasses, and other flowering perennials.
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