Project One... The garden in which you can find me digging and relaxing.

Left: The first experimental gardens  were developed partially and destroyed just one year later in order to perform warranty work on the building itself.  Right: same view after renovations.

The lower garden, terraced during the renovation, is accessed by the set of stone steps from the top terrace. 

A view of the front garden before alterations began in 2007.

Ready for winter. Miscanthus sinensis is controlled in an aesthetically interesting manner through the winter. This was also an attempt to help protect the root in temperatures that dip to -20c. The beech hedge was in its infancy. 2008

The south facade with the beech hedge as it matured:  2006 (original form), 2010, 2012, 2015. 
​The roof garden also matured and reflects the architecture of the building. 
Sharawadgi:  The hills of Budapest on the opposite side of the valley are meant to meld with the roof garden.

Project Two

1 Raw terrain.

3. Rough terracing.

2. Excavate.

4. Three week mark.

5. Two years later.

Project Three - Redirecting Water

Making space and moving the flow of  water away from the foundation of the house was the goal here.  Behind this house is a natural flow of surface water which, before the garden alterations, attempted to flow through the house. Now the levelling and plateau allows the water to flow around it. 

Major soil removal was necessary to move the forest water flow away from the house.

Years later...

Projects 4 ...............                                              .......... and 5.

A theatrical approach.

Simple and clean.