We were called back to our Groton hillside project to continue on with phase two of plantings. Again our clients gave us an open canvas and creative freedom to make something unique of the space. Our clients children love to climb and jump from rock to rock throughout the hillside. Our first thoughts were to create a dry river bed as an informal path for the kids to get to the top of the hill.
After further discussion, we decided this really was the perfect spot for a pondless waterfall. We sourced a great selection of large moss rock to make the water feature appear as natural as possible. There were two main goals with this waterfall, make it safe for kids to climb, and strong enough to withstand the abuse of kids playing in it. Both were accomplished. We surrounded the waterfall with a mix of native plants and a few more showy ornamentals to make it really pop. We continued the landscape lighting from the patio area adding up-lighting on the birch tree and spruce along with fully controllable lighting in the waterfall itself. Overall we couldn’t be happier with the end result as this is quite possibly one of the most peaceful patio settings we have installed to date.
