PORTFOLIO
GALLAGHER
BUSH
BARNES
SMILEY
BESSE
DOAN
PATRICK
INCORD
Melissa and Jonathan Besse asked me to help them after a pool and pool house installation was complete. They wanted a backyard entertaining oasis. The problem on the site was a large grade change sloping away from the pool on one side. With the addition of a sweeping retaining wall the back garden was divided and a sweeping oval lawn was put in for both formal aesthetic and sports with their children.

A fire pit with a round seat wall enclosure was installed and set apart from the pool by walkways and a birch grove planted around it. The plantings are meant to give focus to the time when the pool will be used most, summer.


"We think our project is fabulous. Your quality and vision, and those you work with, have been great. I can't wait for spring.”

-Melissa Besse