Size: 16,500 square feet
Type: Single-Family Residencial Landscape
Location: Coral Gables, FL
There wasn’t a single plant at the site when we started working on this suburban property that featured extensive views of the Atlantic Ocean. Per client request, those views were not to be blocked by one leave. For the young husband and wife, the number two requirement was privacy and blockage of the two neighboring houses that were ever present from the moment one approached the site. Lush planting, a lawn for the kids to play, and lots of shade were also part of the wish list, as was the design of a car court that looked and functioned as an extension of the garden. Young, but full of character, live oaks and yellow tabebuyas were planted to provide enough canopy to grant the shading wish, while clumps of seabreeze bamboo and silver buttonwood shrubs made the neighbors disappear almost from the moment they were installed. Meandering paths of white tiny pebbles and zoysia grass where laid out along organically-shaped areas of tall grasses, lilies and wild coffee to make the user feel as if being on a trail to a hidden beach.
Landscape Design: Mauricio Del Valle Design
Architecture: IG Group
Landscape Installation: Kip Christ Landscape
Photography: MDVD