Townhouse Garden, DC

URBAN

This intimate townhouse garden features a combination of rich, contrasting materials - Jerusalem limestone, New Yangtze limestone from China, cedar, and copper - layered to create a vibrant contemporary garden. Improvements include a lap pool and fountain, terraces, custom security fence and railings, copper wall and lush plantings. Various site constraints were overcome through extensive collaboration with the architect, builder, and contractors. This work included excavation and construction of a swimming pool on the land-locked property and the installation of a specimen Magnolia, requiring the tree to be craned over the residence, a span over 100 feet.

Landscape Architecture: Oehme, van Sweden and Associates (ovsla.com)
Builder: Pagenstecher Group (pagenstechergroup.com)
Photography: John Knowlton/Till Gardens

Project completed while working at Oehme, van Sweden