Authentic Garden Design for Modern Lifestyles and Contemporary Landscapes

Laura S.D. Greloch brings over thirty years of professional office and field experience

to this work. As a landscape architect, she is passionate about her profession! A career in this design discipline includes many facets of practice that begin with embracing the human story, interpreting and stewarding a sense of place and ultimately connecting people to nature.

 

'What has made me an exceptional designer is, in a large part due to the years of experience I have had building landscapes and gardens, and maintaining them. Nothing replaces getting your hands, and boots, in the trench to truly get the logistics for time, costs and execution down-pat. Working the field has elevated my approach with knowledge  in  hardscapes, the timing of roughing in irrigation mains or lighting conduits, understanding plant culture and the ecology of the site;  it has given me experience in how to communicate and be respected by the craftsmen - those contractors who are called to perform on good weather days and bad breathing reality into our visions.'

 

As a landscape architect and horticultural practioner, I have engaged clients on many levels of detail and involvement. Concepts may be subtle or very well developed and include light or more in depth tasks :

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property master planning, set elevations for buildings, pools, terraces

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driveway layout - sense of arrival

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grading, drainage, water collection and management

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create views - establish privacy

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 preserve cultural and natural features, protect existing trees and topography

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influence door and window placement to maximize views and ventilation

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placement of garden art or whimsy

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disguise mechanicals, waste containers and position generators for low impact

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replicate natural landscapes through ecologically matched matrix and meadow plantings

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establish a potage garden, orchard, and seasonal cutting gardens

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selection of outdoor furnishings, planters, light fixtures

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design custom fountains, ponds, pools, outdoor kitchens and showers

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manage construction, maintenance and aftercare

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'I have utilized the relationship of new and old structures to extend architecture into the landscape in an appropriate scale that binds the built elements to the land in a way that feels intended, personal and timeless.'

 

Having grown up and worked in the pastoral Pennsylvania

counties of Buck's, Northampton, Lehigh, and Berks and Hunterdon County, New Jersey, my work and style have been influenced by the scale of agrarian landscapes and the desire to live and engage with the regional 

community and historic villages tucked away in the Delaware

and Lehigh River Valleys.