Pamet Bend
Truro, MA
Our landscape design for Pamet Bend honors the site’s original understated charm while deftly manipulating topography to incorporate new structures and ways of moving through the property. The whole site glories in broad views of the Pamet River and the flanking salt marsh.
Invoking the spirit of the existing native grassy meadows and pitch pine forest, we reduced mown lawn areas, increased representation of native species, and made extensive re-use of materials – not least family collections of beach stones and driftwood.
Relocating the property entrance and driveway eliminated all asphalt paving: a graveled track was draped across the land with minimal grading or disturbance. This new route to the house is both more sheltered from the road and more expansive, offering unfolding vistas.
As the longtime seasonal home was extended and updated for contemporary uses, we sited new buildings and relocated outbuildings to respect the topography, creating harmonious clusters that defer to the main residence and the views.
The plant palette includes cranberry, bayberry, clethera, re-seeded tufted hairgrass and little bluestem grasses and fescue grasses.
Truro, MA
Our landscape design for Pamet Bend honors the site’s original understated charm while deftly manipulating topography to incorporate new structures and ways of moving through the property. The whole site glories in broad views of the Pamet River and the flanking salt marsh.
Invoking the spirit of the existing native grassy meadows and pitch pine forest, we reduced mown lawn areas, increased representation of native species, and made extensive re-use of materials – not least family collections of beach stones and driftwood.
Relocating the property entrance and driveway eliminated all asphalt paving: a graveled track was draped across the land with minimal grading or disturbance. This new route to the house is both more sheltered from the road and more expansive, offering unfolding vistas.
As the longtime seasonal home was extended and updated for contemporary uses, we sited new buildings and relocated outbuildings to respect the topography, creating harmonious clusters that defer to the main residence and the views.
The plant palette includes cranberry, bayberry, clethera, re-seeded tufted hairgrass and little bluestem grasses and fescue grasses.
Truro, MA
Our landscape design for Pamet Bend honors the site’s original understated charm while deftly manipulating topography to incorporate new structures and ways of moving through the property. The whole site glories in broad views of the Pamet River and the flanking salt marsh.
Invoking the spirit of the existing native grassy meadows and pitch pine forest, we reduced mown lawn areas, increased representation of native species, and made extensive re-use of materials – not least family collections of beach stones and driftwood.
Relocating the property entrance and driveway eliminated all asphalt paving: a graveled track was draped across the land with minimal grading or disturbance. This new route to the house is both more sheltered from the road and more expansive, offering unfolding vistas.
As the longtime seasonal home was extended and updated for contemporary uses, we sited new buildings and relocated outbuildings to respect the topography, creating harmonious clusters that defer to the main residence and the views.
The plant palette includes cranberry, bayberry, clethera, re-seeded tufted hairgrass and little bluestem grasses and fescue grasses.