Year: 2023

Location: Washington Square, Manhattan

Scope: design, project management, paving, woodwork, custom planters, planting, irrigation

On a bright downtown terrace, custom ipe screens offer dappled shade, privacy, and a trellis for hardy jasmine vines, complementing an elevated foundation of ipe decking tiles and a perimeter of sleek, powder coated aluminum planters packed with trees, shrubs, perennials and grasses.

On two sides, a playful, low, and bushy planting includes compact boxwoods, nasella (feather grass), allium, sedum, and rubus calycinoides (creeping raspberry). An elegant lagerstroemia ‘Natchez (white-flowering crape myrtle) anchors a city-facing corner, making a statement seen against the brick facade of a building across the street. On the third side, a row of upright Ligustrum ovalifolium (California privet) balances the space, and creates a different type of screen – a glossy, green answer to the hardwood structure across the space.