I've always had a real appreciation for beautiful landscape architecture, particularly with great water features. I enjoy house & garden tours, and have books on my shelf on landscape architecture, koi ponds, etc.... oy, I'm such a nerd! LOL. I improved my current yard by a decent amount, but I'm planning that my NEXT house will be the one where I finally get a nice water feature put in. Well, I just found the backyard of my dreams... built by the owner of a 4-generation landscaping company for his own home in Long Island. 

Since so many of you like to tinker, build, take care of the yard, etc. - I thought you, too, might enjoy seeing this. What impressed me about this fully-engineered yard is the way they have all of the underlying systems (steel beams, retaining walls, rubber liners, etc) so thoroughly "hidden" that it gives an incredibly natural look which is simply gorgeous. This is home landscaping on steroids!  Now that the growing season has started, let this inspire you!

 

Sounds like millions of dollars to build.

The water feature really drowns out the horrific traffic noise.

Fish petting. Never heard tell.

Looks like a lot of maintenance contrary to what they say.

Interesting overall. Thanks for sharing.

ETA: Looks like it is under construction on Google Maps.

51 minutes ago, PK90 said:

ETA: Looks like it is under construction on Google Maps. 

There's a couple of YouTube videos on this yard. In one of them, the owner mentioned they planned to add a "swimming hole" - maybe that's what the construction is? And yeah, NO landscape is maintenance-free! That said, it does seem they've harnessed an awful lot of "natural techniques" to help keep the water and its inhabitants healthy... I'm sure it would be far more maintenance without that.

blowing up the road will cut down on traffic noise too, and it's much cheaper.