Caroline Ervin Landscape Design

Caroline Ervin Landscape Design at 3214 O Street NW is a landscape design studio in Georgetown’s residential neighborhood, sharing the O Street address with the Andrew Law Interior Design at the same building. The landscape design studio provides the residential landscape design services that the Georgetown property owner uses for the design of the Georgetown garden, the terrace, and the outdoor living space that the Federal-period Georgetown property’s specific physical and historical conditions require.

The Georgetown garden design challenge reflects the specific characteristics of the Georgetown property: the Federal-period row house’s rear garden, which is typically narrow and rectangular with the brick or the stone walls separating it from the adjacent properties, requires the landscape designer who understands how to maximize the spatial sense and the planting density in the constrained urban garden footprint. The Georgetown garden’s specific light conditions, which may include the deep shade of the mature trees that the neighboring properties have established over decades of the Georgetown residential occupation, the reflected heat of the south-facing brick wall, and the limited soil depth over the basement that the Georgetown row house’s building footprint creates, require the specific planting knowledge that the experienced residential landscape designer develops.

The Georgetown landscape design commission typically begins with the site assessment that establishes the existing conditions of the Georgetown garden: the soil type, the drainage pattern, the existing planting that the previous owner established, and the microclimate variations that the specific Georgetown garden’s orientation and the surrounding building envelope creates. The design process develops from the site assessment through the concept design to the planting plan that the Georgetown garden owner uses for the installation.

The O Street studio operates by appointment. The Caroline Ervin landscape design studio at 3214 O Street NW provides the Georgetown garden design service from the O Street residential neighborhood address. The Georgetown garden that the landscape designer creates for the Federal-period row house serves the Georgetown residential family’s outdoor living needs through the careful integration of the planting, the paving, the garden structure, and the outdoor furniture that transforms the narrow urban garden into the Georgetown residential home’s primary outdoor room.

The Georgetown garden’s specific ecological conditions, including the urban heat island effect that the surrounding brick surfaces create, the limited groundwater access that the dense urban soil and the paved surfaces reduce, and the specific wildlife context of the Georgetown urban garden, inform the planting selection and the garden design approach that the experienced Georgetown landscape designer develops for the individual garden commission. The O Street studio is available by appointment. Caroline Ervin Landscape Design at 3214 O Street NW Georgetown provides the residential landscape design service for the Georgetown garden, the terrace, and the outdoor space from the O Street Georgetown residential studio. The Georgetown property owner who commissions the landscape design for the Federal-period row house garden uses the studio consultation to begin the design process. Available by appointment.