What was the clients’ vision for their property?
They sought a formal, terraced garden to showcase her rose collection and allow for entertaining. Each terrace serves as a discrete garden space, defined by hedges.

What are some highlights of the landscape?
A lawn terrace is centered on a reflecting pool; a keyhole garden offers an armillary sphere as a focal point; and a rose parterre is anchored by arbors. The formal garden is separated from a woodland area by an aerial hedge of fastigiate hornbeams.

List the hardscape materials that were used.
Thermal-finished bluestone for step treads, wall caps and countertops; Pennsylvania bluestone for patios; pea gravel for secondary walkways; and cobblestone for edging.

What plantings separate the garden spaces?
We incorporated European beech hedges, aerial hedges of hornbeam and dappled willow. More than 350 boxwoods provide further structure.

FACTS + STATS
Sisson Landscapes, a full-service design-build 
company, has been in business for more than 25 years; its staff of 40 executes 20 to 30 projects a year ranging in price from $40,000 to $1 million.

Sisson Landscapes
10120 Colvin Run Road
Great Falls, Virginia 22066
703-759-2012
SissonLandscapes.com