Projects

Best of Boston al fresco dining award winner. Edible, Mediterranean-style (abundant! overflowing!) garden with a rich plant palette in a very small space.

Two free-standing buildings on a small Cambridge lot needed a connection that would help unify the space, create room for outdoor dining, and transition..

A brick-walled courtyard garden in Beacon Hill, often on the Boston Garden Club’s Hidden Garden tour in spring, featuring formal shade plantings…

Condo development in South Boston with small planters in a concrete jungle. Sub-irrigated planters with super-wicking engineered soils created a LEED-rated…

A terraced high patio makes room for a bamboo-edged grass play area below, with a trickling water feature along one side. Natural stone and foliage…

Wild grapes grew up through the woods grabbing trees; we created a platform for stringing and picking them from high in the air. The structure…

A garden on a slope, with retaining walls to create mini-terraces, a seat wall at the base and a winding ramp through the middle. Little details…

A season-round blooming (even winter!), low-maintenance, low-grass design highlighting native woodlanders and cousins of native spring ephemerals. 

A small Cambridge garden needed color and spatial definition. Two mini-patios, one for sitting and one for dining, connect with a slanted bluestone path…

Full of ecologically-mindful elements like rain chains, large-slab natural bluestone, chicken pen, site boulders, wide erosion-control drip trenches…

SegoDesign does interiors! The task was to make a 1800 sq foot flat in Boston more livable, and to give it soul. The home needed a music-room-and-office…

In a narrow, dark space behind a rental unit, an herbal friend wanted to create a small oasis. We created a place for shade-loving vies to grow on the concrete…

SegoDesign was hired by Massachusetts Audubon-owned Drumlin Farm in Lincoln to design a teaching landscape for their new Farm Life Center, designed by…

Lincoln has a lot of woods, woods that have grown up in neglect and are mostly oaks with tall trunks. This habitat creates a dearth of habitat for birds and other…

At a sprawling cape house situated on a 1 acre property with sweeping views of Town Cove over Nauset Marsh, SegoDesign worked on an enhanced master plan for the entire site…

Clients inherited a once potato farm that had been allowed overgrow with mostly invasive species. Careful removals under the watchful eye of the conservation commission…

A low-maintenance garden with the focus on a mix of grasses: Pennisetum, Miscanthus, Hakonecloa, Imperata, and sedges: Carex. Bulbs in the summer richen the palette and make…

SegoDesign created a temporary, one-season, edible cover crop garden to improve soils before the longer term edible garden was established. We worked with the Rose Kennedy Greenway…

Tabor Hill is mostly ledge, and if it isn’t ledge, it is sloping steeply to a large reservoir. The area is mostly oaks, thickly growing, with long, tall trunks. The client wanted…

A circle of trees formed a patch of shade that beckoned on hot summer days. Sparkly, mica-flecked stone made the perfect material to reflect light and brighten the space, while…

A small garden with edible terraced raised beds, a bluestone patio, and design elements that remind the owners of their favorite vacation get-away, Provincetown.

A transformed front yard: from a patch of matted grass into a high patio, with a European feel, a sloped rock garden transition to street level, and custom stone…

Fall foliage photos of a small suburban garden with a rich plant palette.

Border plantings for a large Brookline lot with a grassy play area in the middle. Seasonal color, cut flowers, foliage interest, and big spring flower power were major objectives…

Family farmhouse with path to chicken coop, play area, stone retaining walls and rough dry-laid stone walls, and specialty plant gardens.