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Hardscape & stonework
Dry-laid walls, bluestone terraces, fieldstone steps and paths. Built on proper base and drainage, so they stay level through decades of frost.
Landscape design & build
Outdoor rooms built from stone, soil and patience.
Fieldstone designs and builds terraces, walls and gardens that look like they have always been there, then looks after them season by season.
Start a projectTerrace and steps in progress, Haddam. Sample caption.
Stone first.
New England is built on fieldstone. Farmers pulled it from the ground and stacked it into walls that still mark property lines two centuries later. We work in the same tradition: local stone, laid dry where we can, set on a base that drains, and shaped to the slope rather than fighting it.
That patience shows in the finished work. A wall that leans the right way, a step with a comfortable rise, a terrace that sheds water away from the house.
What we build
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Planting & gardens
Native and well-adapted plants arranged in layers, so the garden has structure in winter and color from April to October.
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Complete outdoor rooms
Terraces for dinner, a fire for October, a path to the far end of the garden. Designed as one place, built in one season.
From the ground up
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Walk the site
Slope, soil, sun, drainage and how you use the yard.
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Design
A plan and a planting list you can hold, with a phased budget.
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Build
One crew, one foreman, from excavation to the last stone.
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Care
Seasonal visits so the garden grows into the design.
Design visits begin in winter, for building in spring.
Tell us about the property. We usually start with a walk around it together.
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