Trees and plants are added with a keen designer's eye to creating not just a natural habitat for local wildlife, but also a natural escape for all to enjoy. Flowers, leafy plants, bushes and tall trees are a landscape artist's tools to create a living canvas of color. Adding in man-made elements like brick or stone pathways, fences, small buildings such as gazebos and sheds, Zen gardens, crafted ponds and fountains and decorative pottery help bring the space together. Landscape artists have one of the few jobs in architecture that allow them to create and build with the very heart of nature itself. Rather than the cold, carefully pruned gardens of yesteryear, landscape artists bring nature and man together in a beautiful synchronicity that makes their carefully crafted work seem natural and real, as though it belongs in the space that it occupies.
Don't make the mistake in believing that landscape artistry is a new passing fad; Frederick Law Olmsted brought landscape artistry to the forefront of American architectural design when he created what became New York City's Central Park, and then transformed the swampy lakefront of Chicago into a triumph of landscape artistry for the World's Fair. Now available on a smaller scale – and right in your own backyard! Landscape artists bring this same skill and eye for detail to the homes and businesses of the world.
