The ML List: Top Mountain Landscape Designers 2017
In mountain communities, it takes a specialist schooled in the nuances of mountain terroir to create landscapes that last, blending in harmony with the countryside.
The editorial team at Mountain Living is pleased to feature our first Top Mountain Landscape Designers list. With recommendations from architects, designers and readers, we’ve compiled a directory of firms creating scenery with Mother Nature’s stamp of approval—and you’ll see the results in the following pages, listed by state and town. Some firms have more than one location, but we included the specific locale submitted with the nomination. And you’ll see that firms who have been in the pages of ML receive a special designation, listing their most recent project as of May/June 2017. The list is illustrated with some of our favorite images.
COLORADO
ASPEN/SNOWMASS/CARBONDALE:
Gibeon Photography
Design Workshop 303-623-5186
A successful garden design emerges from an understanding of a client’s dreams, the opportunities presented by the site, and the relationship between a home and the surrounding landscape. In a mountain setting, the goal is to capture distant views and embrace the expansive landscape, while providing intimate spaces of human scale. —Kurt Culbertson
See more at: A Dreamy Cabana Makes a Splash in Aspen
Alpine Design and Planning 970-927-2277
Binbilla Landscaping 970-274-2442
Bluegreen 424-258-4767
Daly Property Service 970-927-2430
Escape Garden Design 970-920-3700
DHM Design 970-963-6520, 303-892-5566
BOULDER:
Marpa Landscape 720-470-2920
CRESTED BUTTE:
Keep It Green Landscape and Design 970-275-6947
Mountain Grown Design Works 970-901-0514
Never Summer 970-275-8448
DENVER:
Design Workshop 303-623-5186
Lifescape 303-831-8310
DURANGO:
Eco-Logical Resources 970-749-0437
LOUISVILLE:
K. Dakin Design 303-604-2988
PARKER:
Western Lands Restoration Services 720-936-9973
TELLURIDE:
Caribou Design Associates 970-708-1232
VAIL/AVON:
Kimberly Gavin
Rocky Mountain Custom Landscapes, INC.
Vail, CO 970-748-8461
For a Vail home with abundant outdoor living space, Rocky Mountain Custom Landscapes created the garden areas on this large patio. The homeowners enjoy cooking and entertaining in the space with its outdoor fireplace that warms up chilly mountain evenings. See more at: Colorado Contemporary
Ceres Plus 970-328-6080
Fieldscape 970-390-6550
Zehren & Associates Architecture 970-949-0257
WINTER PARK:
Terra Firma Landscaping 970-726-1133
IDAHO
KETCHUM/SUN VALLEY:
Ben Young Landscape Architect 208-726-5907
Eggers Associates, PA 208-725 0988
Webb Landscape Inc. 208-788-2066
MONTANA
BILLINGS:
A-1 Landscaping 406-656-1932
Baldwin’s Customized Landscaping 406-446-9866
Coppercreek Landscaping 509-240-1713
Land Design Inc. 406-665-3550
BOZEMAN:
David O. Marlow
Beth MacFawn Landscape Design, INC. 406-581-3558
This was an exciting project; collaborating with owners, architect, pond company and landscape installer. Designing water features provided opportunities for creating a sense of place, and my favorite was choosing native plants for the challenging high elevation plant design. — Beth MacFawn See more at: Building a Legacy
Blanchford Landscaping Group 406-587-3057
Design.5 Landscape Architecture 406-587-4873
MISSOULA:
Landscape Architecture Studio 406-728-1950
PARADISE VALLEY:
Native Landscapes and Reclamation 406-222-0457
WHITEFISH/KALISPELL:
Bruce Boody Landscape Architect Inc. 406-862-4755
Terra Designworks 406-270-8054
White Cloud Design 406-863-2828
NEVADA
High Sierra Gardens 775-831-7575
High West Landscape Architects 530-553-4000
UTAH
PARK CITY:
B2 Landscapes 801-455-6836
Berg Landscape Architects 801-723-2000
Bockholt Landscape Architects 801-602-9951
Utah Landscaping 801-910-1913
WASHINGTON
MEAD:
Place Landscape Architecture 509-570-2157
WYOMING
JACKSON HOLE:
Audrey Hall and Ron Johnson
Vendone Landscape Architects 307-733-3062
Site context is important for every project we do and in the case of the “Ranch Redux” project, even more so. Located adjacent to some of the most important spawning habitat for the Snake River cutthroat trout our design required a careful blending of client needs with the sensitive natural resource values that were present. A careful use of water and use of a native plant palette seamlessly blends the home into the native landscape, and both the client and environment came out as winners. This is what we enjoy the most and drives our designs on each project we do. — Jim Verdone See more at: A Ranch Redux in Jackson Hole
Agrostis Inc. 307-413-1883
Hershberger Design 307-739-1001
Mountainscapes 307-734-7512
Pierson Land Works 307-733-5429
