Seventy Acres Landscape
Architecture and Design

This New England shingle-style house is perched on a plot of steeply sloping land near important wetlands. The landscape architects created a master plan that creates a series of layered terraces. and maximized setbacks with an eye on ecology and design. The entry garden, plotted around a mature styrax japonicas, leads visitors along granite steps (monolithic Newport dark) to a pool (with an internal spa and sun shelf), a garden, and a dining area. The upper dining terrace leads down to a garden of pea gravel, flower and herb-filled planters, and an ever-brimming fountain. A Corten steel retaining wall and native plants spill down to wetlands. The new plantings-and the pollinators they draw-are the landscape architect’s favorite part of the design.