The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) has named Brandon Jones of the Glen Gate Company in Wilton, CT, as its international designer of the year.
Jones won two gold design awards, both in the "small gardens" category. He renovated an old pool area in this Greenwich, CT, garden, adding a shade structure and pergola that echo architectural details found on the main residence and carriage house.
The old concrete pool deck was replaced with gray granite in a mosaic pattern, and plantings were kept simple: a boxwood hedge, pink hydrangeas, roses, and rhododendrons along a woodland border.
Jones' second gold was for this garden in Armonk, NY, which features a re-located pool, sited to comply with an existing septic system; and the use of columns on an existing pergola to define one edge of the pool.
In the cutting garden, Jones has placed a statue of Buddha — centered on the pool — and a gravel path lined with cobblestone guides visitors from the front of the residence back to the pool area. Around the pool itself, Jones replaced the pool decking with granite and resurfaced the pool walls — changing the color from bright aqua to a darker hue.
Jones receives his award this week at the APLD conference in California … and more on the other winners a bit later.
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