home about us what we do who we are client comments press community credentials portfolio overview traditional modern natural color & texture paths & steps contact us                     Click on the photo or link at left to view page                                         overview traditional modern natural color and texture paths and steps                               Formality with a Twist The large brick home called for a formal and restrained landscape treatment using traditional boxwood and specimen trees, and bluestone terraces with brick seat-walls. The pool provided an opportunity to add a modern twist to this layout, with a simple but dramatic sweep of tall ornamental grass as a backdrop that sways with the slightest breeze. Simple beds of roses and ever-blooming annuals, and a collection of well-planted large pots, provide season-long interest that punctuate the mostly green landscape.                                         An Eco-Friendly Country Estate A relaxed combination of rustic and formal elements, this 10-acre country property lent itself to eco-friendly solutions within a framework of traditional spaces. Large meadows were established to reduce mowed and fertilized expanses of lawn. Lush formal gardens were planted with bird- and butterfly-friendly species. The landscape master plan created a series of rooms around the house that provide a variety of rich experiences for the family, from active entertaining around the pool, to contemplative moments near the bubbling fountain in the organic kitchen garden, to nature hikes through the woodland trail system.                                         A Whimsical French-Style Kitchen Garden Working with the client's desire for a French-inspired kitchen garden to provide organic vegetables and cutting flowers, we created a formal yet whimsical garden based on the jardin potager at the Chateau de Villandry near Paris. The garden is arranged around a central fountain, and uses ordinary vegetables in extraordinary ways to create sublime effects.                                         A Private Park for an Active Family Enter the driveway of this renovated 19th-century home in the middle of town, and you enter a private park-like setting of stately trees, expansive play lawns, and lush gardens. The landscape master plan easily accommodates children, pets, Mom the gardener, and Dad the ball-player. A new pool was designed to integrate smoothly with the new pool house in the renovated barn/garage, and included a comfortable raised terrace, walls, walkways, fencing, and a hidden gravel service area for potting and wood-chopping. Ancient shade trees were preserved. A kitchen garden was built for Mom. The family dogs roam their green territory with glee.                                         Suburban Sophistication A dramatic make-over transformed this typical 1960s suburban home into a sophisticated retreat for the world-traveling clients. You approach the home on a gently-curving gravel drive surrounded by dense plantings of rhododendron and towering trees, and arrive in a gracious cobblestone entry courtyard. Lush plantings of colorful perennials and shrubs provide seasonal surprises, while well-placed gates and walls conceal surprises at every turn. A charming geometric flower garden surrounds a family heirloom sundial, and evokes the London garden where the family once lived. Nature and sophistication happily co-exist, in a landscape that reflects the client's comfortable lifestyle and refined taste.                                         New England Tradition with Fun Surprises A charming New England home suggests a traditional landscape, but an active young family who love to entertain suggests up-to-date design solutions. No problem. A sensuously curving drive was designed to make coming home fun, and extensive stone terraces set at grade with the house provide easy transitions between inside and out. Abundant plantings tickle the senses in all four seasons. A fool-proof and low-maintenance perennial border erupts in fireworks every summer to entertain swimmers at the pool, which is screened from the road with strategically-placed evergreens.                                         Peaceable Kingdom on the Mountain A 30-acre farm with an historic 1870 farmhouse in upstate New York is carefully adapted for new owners who value tranquility. Re-aligned drives, a new pond, and substantial new plantings including a new orchard emphasize the historic character of the property that had been compromised over the years. Expansive swaths of previously mown turf, which once were farm fields, were returned to natural meadow, creating an eco-friendly solution to managing the historic landscape. The new wildlife pond was delicately excavated to blend into the natural contour of the land and amplify the drama of reflected sunsets.                                         A Kitchen Garden of Abundance Home-grown is what the clients requested, and abundance is what was delivered. Located down a hill from the home, the lattice-fenced and rabbit-meshed kitchen garden sits in a wildflower meadow overlooking the pond. A pre-dinner stroll to grab some tomatoes, herbs, and flowers for the table becomes a delightful immersion in nature, a far cry from the supermarket aisle. A stone stairway with rustic railing blends subtly into the wildflower-covered hillside.                                         A Relaxing Retreat from the City This home was built into a hillside in a natural clearing in the woods, as a weekend getaway for a New York City family. Taking cues from the existing exposed bedrock found on the site, recycled stone from the building construction were used to create rustic retaining walls, steps, and paths. Mature trees were carefully pruned and preserved, framing the gracefully curved gravel entry drive and courtyard. Abundant plantings of seasonally interesting ornamental trees, shrubs, and groundcovers delight the senses around the home. The turf-framed pool with rustic stone coping blends seamlessly into the natural setting.                         Tuliptree Site Design Tuliptree Site Design is the finest landscape architecture and garden design and installation company in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT and surrounding areas including: Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston. Michael Mushak, landscape architect and garden designer and David Westmoreland, landscape architect and garden designer are the principal designers for Tuliptree Site Design. Michael Mushak graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor of landscape architecture and David Westmoreland graduated with a master of landscape architecture from Cornell University. Both have also received training at the New York Botanical Garden. Their garden and landscape designs feature native plants, flowering perennials, specimen trees and shrubs, pools, terraces, courtyards and garden accents. Landscape Architects Mushak and Westmoreland also design fences, patios, pools, decks, masonry, stonework, porches, trellises, and many other features for gardens and landscapes in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT and surrounding areas including: Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston. Sustainable Landscaping and Garden Design in Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston. The natural topography and landscape features make sustainable garden and landscape design for Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston a challenge for designers, landscape contractors, landscapers and landscape services. Sustainable garden and landscape design lowers maintenance costs and simplifies upkeep. Tuliptree Site Design landscape architects specialize in sustainable garden and landscape design customized for your specific site. Landscape Design in Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston. Tuliptree Site Design will design your landscape and garden and then install masonry and plantings with our own professional crews, and assist the client in selecting and working directly with other contractors to implement elements such as irrigation, fencing, pools, and driveways. With this proven formula, we are able to concentrate on maintaining the highest landscape and garden design standards while offering the most cost-efficient solutions for our clients in the following areas: Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT including Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston. Tuliptree Site Design Garden and Landscape Portfolio Tuliptree Site Design’s landscapes and gardens have been featured in Architectural Digest, Bedford Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Home, Metropolitan Home, Country Living and many other publications. Gardens and landscapes from Tuliptree feature traditional, modern, and natural styles with interesting combinations of colors and textures. Whether designing an entire landscape and garden master plan or a new terrace, pool, courtyard, or vegetable garden, the landscape architects and garden designers of Tuliptree Site Design will respond to your needs. When you need landscaping, garden and pool design, or landscape architecture in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT including Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston, please contact Tuliptree Site Design. Fairfield County Landscape Architecture and Garden Design Tuliptree Site Design will design and install complete landscape and garden master plans or individual landscape or garden elements as requested, at any scale from large multi-acre properties to the most intimate spaces. Depending on our clients' needs, Tuliptree Site Design landscape architects and garden designers may include in our designs the layout and materials of driveways, entry areas, walkways, terraces, walls, decks, fences, pools, play areas, lighting, irrigation, furniture, shrub and flower borders, screening trees, ornamental and shade trees, kitchen gardens, meadows, native plantings, and woodland management. Contact Tuliptree Site Design for your landscaping needs. Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston Garden Design Tuliptree Site Design strongly believes in delivering landscape and garden designs that are not only consistently beautiful year after year, but that are healthy both for people and the environment. Sustainability is more than just a concept to us, but is an active process based on a constant awareness of energy efficiency, environmental impacts, and ecological benefits. For all your landscaping needs, serving Fairfield and Westchester County, including Bedford, Bedford Hills, Katonah, South Salem, Pound Ridge, Waccabuc, Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, Noroton, Westport, Norwalk, Newtown, Wilton, Fairfield, Southport, New Canaan, Ridgefield, Redding, Easton, and Weston, call on the landscape architects of Tuliptree Site Design for the design and installation of your beautiful garden landscape.