Bartsch Landscape Architecture

Bartsch Landscape Architecture has been committed to building trust through firstrate service that exceeds our clients’ expectations since 1999. Working from Mason, Boston, and Nantucket, we provide our clients with exceptional design solutions, historic and environmental permitting, and full project management services to realize each property’s promise.

State-licensed and fully insured, we shape the land to fit your surroundings. Composing elements such as retaining walls, grading the topography, ornamental and structural plantings, lighting, and other means, we create healthful garden getaways to relax and reconnect, swimming pools and water features, sports areas, and outdoor digs for cooking and dining. Our focus is to select the best materials, specify solid construction techniques, and control costs with dependable contractors and close construction oversight to ensure your project is built to last generations. Whether you need to fix problems or you seek to explore opportunities, we work with you to transform everyday spaces into extraordinary places.

Bartsch Landscape Architecture Mason, NH, and Nantucket and Boston, MA 508-410-7979 bartschla.com

Faithful Flowers

Hidden away in a Newton neighborhood, just a stone’s throw from the busy Mass Pike, exists a serene landscape conceived to recharge the soul. The homeowners craved a space that would recall their beloved Italy and offer outside areas to relax and entertain friends. They also sought privacy and the illusion of isolation from the urban canyon created by their deep and narrow backyard and the tall homes that surround it on three sides.

We brought their Italian sensibility to life via a lengthy crushed bluestone pathway flanked by an allee of hornbeams, catmint, and giant allium in the spring, and bookended by a river birch and glorious limelight hydrangeas in the fall. The allee serves to connect four separate outdoor spaces for dining, cocktails, and after-dinner drinks by the firepit. A rectangular greenspace is flanked by oversized corten steel containers that are changed out seasonally. Custom lighting illuminates the allee at dusk.

The design mitigates noise and creates curtains of green privacy, while a water feature adds a focal point of calm.

Faithful Flowers designs, builds, and maintains landscapes and hardscapes. Let us create the space of your daydreams.

Faithful Flowers

Faith Michaels 617-543-2962 faithfulflowers.net