A system of trellises, Corten steel planters, and full garden areas create softness and beauty in this downtown community. Billowing grasses, climbing vines, and multi-seasonal perennial blooms add whimsy and nature to the linear structures of the outdoor living space and a water feature employs the full senses of garden users. Spaces for strolling, lounging, swimming, dining, and pets bring this Denver community to life.

Designed by a PCS Group of Denver, we were contracted to install all of the landscape renovations for the north and east sides of the Academy grounds. This project provided excellent opportunities for us to employ our abilities to read plans, work with another firm and install extensive hardscapes and water features. We were able to complete 95% of the work in-house and build good relationships with all involved on the project.

Landscape renovations at Griffis at Union Station luxury apartments revitalized a cold, gray courtyard through the design and fabrication of corten steel water features, lush plantings that will survive Denver's tough climate, climbing vines growing from steel planters onto an overhead trellis, and Dog Tuff grass to accommodate an abundance of pets. We also reworked plantings in the pool area to create a beautiful landscape that compliments and grounds the city-scape architecture.

In this project situated along Denver’s legendary High Line Canal and trail we focused on creating beauty and luster in the shared community landscapes. We chose the noteworthy Muhlenbergia reverchonii (Undaunted Ruby Muhly Grass), known for its pink plumes and airy texture as the connecting thread of the spaces. Always desiring to incorporate existing, flourishing plant material if at all possible in our projects, we borrowed from and added to the Miscanthus sinensis Gracillimus (Maiden Grass), incorporating complementary perennials alongside these grasses.

Replacing failing sod with perennial plantings, we were able to create a depth of color and texture in a formerly stultifying landscape. Thanks to mossy boulders, a stone patio, new trees and many extended and new garden areas, the stroll to the leasing office of this apartment community is now far from a dispassionate landscape experience.

Combining a plant palette of grasses native to North American prairies, perennials to provide summer and winter interest, and shrubs from the Rocky mountains to provide evergreen color, this project is filled with natural wonder. The mighty sandstone boulders cut from the foothills of the Front Range create and added feeling of nature to these Littleton tenements.

Charged with the task of creating a landscape palette to reflect and create a visual association with all Griffis Residential properties, we were given a new opportunity for creativity. After developing an intricate plant palette, we designed these gardens to bring a boldness often forgotten in shared community landscapes. The vibrancy of these plants is coupled with the softness of their delicate hues.

Formerly a home in an older residential neighborhood, Studio R Interiors had a vision to transform the dated house into a chic design studio. Partnering with their vision, we designed a landscape whose beauty compliments the classic architecture of the building while bringing color and life to the garden through a variety of well-adapted perennials.

We designed the new landscape spaces to fit against the backdrop of the classic brick facades and traditionally laid out garden spaces. We began by expanding the existing garden spaces, adding a variety of native and well-adapted grasses, adding shrubs to compliment the traditional architecture, and planting perennials to add variety and color. We used rounded river rock boulders to match existing stones and authenticate the nature of the gardens.

This shared community landscape previously lacked a common thread tying the landscape together as a whole. Our goal was to create beauty by bringing about a strong sense of rhythm, harmony and order in the landscape. Using repeating elements and themes, we designed and installed these gardens to offer the feeling of vibrancy and vitality found in nature. The bold forms of the river rock boulders possess a subtle but strong presence, anchoring the perennial and shrub plantings to the earth while their branches and blooms create dazzling arabesques of texture and color.