A garden I designed for the Mahaffy residence in Boulder, Colorado is featured in a very nice article in the current issue of Boulder County Home & Garden Magazine. This landscape design was a complete transformation of a mostly wild landscape into a serene landscape with natural themes and plenty of entertainment spaces. Here is just one photo of this residence.
Mahaffy residence, landscape design featured in Boulder County Home & Garden
What makes this article especially interesting are several “before” and “after” comparison shots, so that the reader can really get a sense of that transformation. Mahaffy himself had unique needs for his garden: A successful entrepreneur who recently sold his bio-tech company for $2.9 billion, Mahaffy now travels the world and values his garden as a refuge to come home to.
The Mahaffy landscape design features patios, a stone path leading to a koi pond, a man-made stream as well as a major natural creek, rock features involving large and small boulders carefully placed, and plenty of beautiful low-maintenance plants that thrive in Colorado.
The Home & Garden article also gives a nice expression of my some of my philosophical ideas:
“If I were to pick a theme for this garden–for any garden–it would be the idea of coming to our senses,” Altgelt says. “The garden is a place to feel your own soul in a much larger context of a soul-filled world.”
Here is the Boulder landscape design article, in PDF format.
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