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Whole-Property Naturalistic Garden with Ponds and Layered Planting

Location

Collingswood, NJ

Role

Lead Designer, Consultant, Project Manager, Garden Builder, On-Site Planting Designer, and Planting Installation Artist

Project type

Whole-Property Garden with Ponds and Hardscape

This whole-property habitat garden was created as an immersive, wildlife-friendly landscape with ponds, layered planting, garden art, containers, stone paths, gravel surfaces, and integrated hardscape woven throughout the property. The garden includes a koi pond, a frog pond, birdhouses, mason bee shelters, bird feeders, water features, and dense planting designed to support beauty, movement, sound, and habitat value.

The planting combines trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, grasses, aquatic plants, foliage textures, and seasonal containers to create a lush garden experience through the year. Personal and playful details, including ceramic fish, sculptural garden pieces, a large yellow rubber duck, and collected ornaments, give the garden its distinctive character.

Lighting extends the garden after dark, with colored night lighting and a drift of color-changing solar lights moving through the planting. In winter, snow, birdhouses, mason bee shelters, and illuminated garden forms give the landscape another season of atmosphere and life.

Wide view of habitat garden with layered planting, container gardens, patio paving, garden art, trees, and pond area in a lush backyard.

Blooming hellebores with variegated foliage, container planting, stones, and a garden statue in a layered habitat garden.

Layered container and shade garden with blue flowering perennials, variegated foliage, stone accents, garden art, and lush planting.

Layered summer habitat garden with black-eyed Susans, pink lilies, coneflowers, container plantings, vertical foliage, and garden ornament.

View through a garden arbor toward the house, with stone path, gravel surfacing, layered habitat planting, containers, and birdhouse.

Blue squill flowers emerging through late snow in an early spring habitat garden with purple crocus foliage nearby.

Koi pond with fish, aquatic plants, stone edging, tall birdhouse, Japanese maple, layered planting, and yellow rubber duck.

Ceramic fish sculpture set among black mondo grass, stones, layered foliage, and pondside habitat garden planting.

Small frog pond with tiered fountain, horsetail rush, stones, and surrounding layered planting near the front of the garden.

Layered pondside habitat planting with perennials, grasses, shrubs, stones, containers, birdhouses, garden art, and red metal garage beyond.

Ganesh garden statue surrounded by layered container plantings, ferns, foliage textures, stones, and lush habitat garden planting.

Purple Persian shield with variegated foliage, succulents, container plantings, stone accents, and layered shade garden plants.

Snow-covered winter garden at night illuminated with colored landscape lighting in yellow, green, blue, purple, and red.

Snow-covered mason bee shelters and birdhouses in a garden at night, softly lit with warm lights in a winter scene.

Garden path with colored night lighting and illuminated planting beds, looking back toward the house at dusk.

View from a patio into a garden at night with colorful landscape lighting and a drift of color-changing solar lights running from the right side toward the back left through the planting.

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