Taylor Road

This project encompasses two designs: the landscape surrounding the home, once dry and underdeveloped, and a new vegetable garden area that would be protected from the deer that regularly passed through the area. For the landscape surrounding the home we focused on adding a large number of drought tolerant, deer resistant perennials and shrubs. A decomposed granite pathway winds through different planting environments, from a rain garden that takes advantage of runoff from the hay fields that surround the property, then through an extensive lavender garden and finally to a lawn area surrounded by beds of flowerings shrubs, summer perennials and grasses. The back yard patio is home to a modern steel-and-douglas fir pergola where the homeowner can listen to the new boulder recirculating fountain while enjoying views of the new vegetable and rose garden as well as the open fields beyond.

The vegetable garden has several zones of its own, with an entry of fruit trees and thyme groundcover leading to a large steel gazebo which acts as a hub for circular rose and boxwood raised beds that surround it and a decomposed granite pathway leading out to raised vegetable beds and a large ground level garden plot beyond. Instead of a single, seven foot tall deer fence, a set of two four foot tall fences are set four feet apart to keep the deer out, while a row of ornamental grasses grow in between to add to the barrier and soften the overall look.