Green Jay Landscape Design
Green Jay Landscape Design
This landscape project started as a landscape design master plan for a small property on a tidal estuary. It grew into involving architectural improvements and wetland restoration. This required engineering as well as integrating a well and native plant garden as water features. The scope of this project included reconstructing the sea wall, rebuilding the landing and steps, as well as installing extensive site protection.
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
Every landscape is one of a kind. In this case…Wow! Everything starts with a dream, a vision, a concept. Dark Skies..no light pollution! We needed a working title..hence ‘ Sanctuary Moon’. The entrance and front yard landscape would be titled ‘ Breathe”. I could hear the music before we even began. This was a joint project uniting John Jay Landscape Development with Green Jay Landscape Design.
A main feature would be allowing the outstandingly dramatic rock outcropping to sing! So we began by clearing all the vegetation and creating plant pockets for the rock garden perennials.
A Yin and Yang shaped stream was constructed to feed a small pond at the new patio/sitting area. The video demonstration of this stream construction helps to show a project which involved the repurposing and recycling natural stone from the clients home landscape construction site. This beautiful water feature was a part of the much larger landscape design.
The planting theme is called ‘The Rivers of Color’, consisting of eco-beneficial native perennials and grasses intended to wave in the breeze on the hilltop. Stone pathways with river rock mulch encourage circulation throughout the garden creating an immersion into nature experience. I’d have to say…fun was had by all creating this on of a kind model of Sustainable Green Landscaping.
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
This work in progress features many unique constructions and technologies. We started with eliminating the lawn.
Below: BEFORE photo, beginning dethaching process.
This allowed for a predominantly native planting, a water feature was added including a bog and aquatic plants.
Bordering a wetland, we maximized the natural advantages of the property and invited the wildlife in. By substantially increasing the biodiversity of species, we were able to more effectively and efficiently manage the property organically, naturally and sustainably. A rain garden with passive irrigation was installed.
The Market Deck Garden features a ‘Tower Garden’ prodigiously producing produce for the kitchen including cucumbers, lettuce, basil and cherry tomatoes while perennials and annual flowers attract beneficial insects. This attractive container garden consists of Meyers lemons, parsley, Thai basil and peppers. New technologies in addition to the ‘Tower garden’ include ‘Wooly Pockets’ and ‘Window Farms’ for vertical gardens.
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
We’ve created this extraordinary composition here in Westchester County, Dream Window / Lakeside Masterpiece. It features combined elements of nature, the far east as well as Australian and European influences. The project includes regular maintenance and management of this lakeside property.
Part of the scope of this project was to use locally sourced stone to enhance the steps leading down to the lake, to construct paths and patios in the backyard lakeside area and for lakeside bank restoration.
We help keep this extraordinary landscape looking spectacular by maintaining and edging the garden and bed areas. By planting a unique variety of perennials, shrubs and flowers, we’ve helped this landscape environment truly stand out with its unique landscape features.
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
What is spring without green, without color, without flowers….What is a home without a garden?
All we need to remind us what life is like without attractive, stimulating artistic landscaping is to look around the neighborhood at all the brand new construction without any green. Everyone and everything benefits from a little touch of nature ! Trees, birds, butterflies, even a well tended green lawn (hopefully poison free) adds a touch of joy, peace and happiness to our lives.
The popularity of books such as ‘Bringing Nature Home’ by Doug Tallamy or ‘The Living Landscape ‘: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by Tallamey and Rick Darke show us what is missing from much of our landscape environments. Nature Deficit Disorder plagues our culture. The need for nature is as real as our need for clean air, fresh water and healthy food. We need nature not only for the precious resources we require to live but also to satisfy our basic intellectual and spiritual desires. Look around you and notice, observe, appreciate our beautiful world and imagine all the ways we can make it better!
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
Wherever you go… there you are! Nature surrounds us! We are a part of it! Whether we are in Booth bay, Maine, Katonah, Somers or White Plains, New York there are naturally beautiful landscapes with stone as an integral part of the landscape composition.
The possibilities and opportunities for creating and designing naturalistic landscapes with locally sourced stone are incredible! For years I taught a one day course at New York Botanical Gardens called ‘Landscaping with Stone’. It was so much fun because the advantages of natural landscaping with stone are awesome. And… no pruning…no watering…no fertilizing…no light requirements, and…the deer don’t eat i! For sustainable resource management, it doesn’t get any better!
Jay Archer, President
914-560-6570
jay@greenjaylandscapedesign.com
