Larger lots, more open sky, and room for a landscape with real structure. Design-led gardens for Saline properties.
Request a ConsultationSaline properties tend to give you something Ann Arbor's city lots don't: space, and full sun. That opens up planting that simply won't perform under a heavy canopy, prairie plantings, sun perennial borders, meadow-style gardens that need six hours of direct light to look like anything.
Bigger lots bring their own design problem, though. Space without structure reads as empty rather than generous. The work on a larger property is usually about creating rooms, edges and destinations so the landscape has somewhere to take you.
Full sun unlocks prairie and perennial planting that shaded Ann Arbor gardens can't support.
Scale needs structure. Defined edges, layered planting and destinations are what stop a big yard reading as a field.
Open sites are windier and drier. Screening and windbreak planting often come first.
Same Washtenaw clay. On flatter, larger lots the water tends to sit rather than run, which changes the fix.
Every project is designed for the property it sits on. These are the services Saline clients ask for most.
Common Questions
Saline is comfortably within the working area. It's a short drive south of Ann Arbor, and we work throughout Washtenaw County.
Structure first. Defined garden rooms, screening, and a genuine destination: a seating area, a water feature or a stone terrace, so the space has a reason to move through it.
Yes, and Saline's sunnier lots are well suited to it. Prairie-style plantings need full sun to thrive, and they handle our clay better than most alternatives once established.
Yes, for gardens we've designed and built. Keeping a designed landscape looking right takes pruning and editing, not just mowing.
Aaron works personally with every client, March through November, across Ann Arbor and surrounding areas.
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