This design offers a new paradigm for the American Garden. The garden's ground plane, a plant tapestry combines texture and form, color and scent, while a canopy of olive trees adds a third dimension that changes in color and opacity as the seasons advance.
About the firm / "Do gardens have to be so tame, so harnessed, so unfree? What's new about our New American Garden is what's new about America itself: it is vigorous and audacious, and it vividly blends the natural and the cultivated," so says James van Sweden, principal at Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington DC, where the prevailing philosophy of design is one that matches plants with their environment, building on the principals found in nature to produce innovative and sustainable landscape architecture that has far reaching impacts on American landscape architecture as Ecological Art.
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