Type of Project: Garden

Name of Project: Adelphi Street Circle

Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Use: Residence, recreational

Size: 600 SF

Completion Date: 2011

Designer: Alive Structures

Project Description: Alive Structures removed unhealthy trees, shrubs, and weeds from the garden creating a clean slate and exposing and renovating pre-existing stonework. We created a minimalist inner circle filled with moss, Bleeding Heart, and Solomon’s Seal, that serves as a type of meditation area. In the back border a Flowering Dogwood takes center stage and is surrounded by Clethera shrubs, Mountain Laurels, and woodland perennials such as Foam Flower, and Wild Geranium.

Other landscaping work includes the front garden that provides Adelphi Street with a stunning Witch Hazel show every March.

Photographer: Marni Majorelle, 2011