The Belmont Hill Residence project was designed by Boston-based landscape designer Matthew Cunningham and received a Merit Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects in 2009.
A brick house sits atop a steeply sloped site with jagged rock outcroppings and mature woodland trees reaching into abutting conservation land. A richly layered perennial and shrub garden provides a threshold into the house and invites people further into a rich woodland garden. Goshen stone walls terrace down the hillside, and a stone staircase connects the upper terraces to the lower grass glade. Planting beds filled with shrubs, grasses, and perennials surround a finely patterned brick patio. Thick masses of native plants drift around outcroppings and trees, providing enclosure and privacy for property.
