Mature Garden
An established garden gets cleaned up and modernized, while establishing easier care and addressing long-term problems…
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An established garden gets cleaned up and modernized, while establishing easier care and addressing long-term problems…
A tiny Cambridge garden gets a lift with tetris-like functional space creation…
A former parking lot is transformed to event space for large gatherings and weddings…
A new gardener with three young children wanted to start with a small garden full of edible tea and herb plants in soothing colors right out the back porch…
A new herbal garden for a young family transitions porch to yard and settles the house into the landscape…
A community-inspired project to bring life to the outdoor space adjacent the deCordova Cafe. SegoDesign developed the overall design and oversaw…
Best of Boston al fresco dining award winner. Edible, Mediterranean-style (abundant! overflowing!) garden with a rich plant palette in a very small space.
Six-acre edible estate in Lincoln with conservation land and trails. 9-year phased project with native herbal meadow, terraced bluestone patio, sunken barn…
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 brick-walled courtyard garden in Beacon Hill, often on the Boston Garden Club’s Hidden Garden tour in spring, featuring formal shade plantings…
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…
The landscape plan for this new build followed the Net Zero Energy ethos – we worked to expose the soul of the place within a paradigm of low-maintenance, native…
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…
SegoDesign was hired by Massachusetts Audubon-owned Drumlin Farm in Lincoln to design a teaching landscape for their new Farm Life Center, designed by…
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…
Full of ecologically-mindful elements like rain chains, large-slab natural bluestone, chicken pen, site boulders, wide erosion-control drip trenches…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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..
Family farmhouse with path to chicken coop, play area, stone retaining walls and rough dry-laid stone walls, and specialty plant gardens.
Blending two households of furnishings and sensibilities created a transitional, eclectic home with texture, interest, and surprise…
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…
