Falls Church Hybrid

The goal of this Moore Architects design was to connect a traditional home to a casual “workshop” in the rear yard and provide an area for croquet and other lawn sports. We created a greenspace, shored up the grade with sculptural mountain boulders, and added a regulation croquet pitch that required a highly engineered lawn with a sports-quality drainage system built up to grade. Colonial steppers flow down the grade with an edge to keep balls from rolling off. While the gardens around the house are more traditional, as the landscape nears the workshop our plant selections become more reflective of the Virginia woodlands, with a mix of native shrubs and ferns. The garden has a simple presence, planted with cultivated species like Roses, Camellias, Crepe Myrtles, and fragrant herbs for a beautifully scented yard. 

Winner of the 2022 Landscape Contractors Association Award.

A two-story white farmhouse with a covered front porch and a bright green double front door. A brick walkway leads up to the stairs, which are flanked by two large potted plants in a landscaped front yard.
A white house with a columned front porch and a wooden railing. A garden bed filled with purple allium flowers and green shrubs sits along a brick path in the foreground.
A white two-story farmhouse with a wrap-around porch and a bright green front door. A large crape myrtle tree stands in the foreground over a garden filled with purple allium flowers and green shrubs.
A two-story white house with a stone chimney and a backyard lawn framed by purple flowers. The yard is bordered by a stone retaining wall and lush green trees.
A garden bed filled with pink astilbe flowers stands behind a neatly mowed green lawn. In the foreground, two wide, natural stone steps lead up toward the grass.
Stone steps lead into a garden featuring rows of tall, feathery pink astilbe flowers. In the background, sunlight filters through dense trees behind a small white garage with a metal roof.
Tall, feathery pink astilbe flowers bloom in a lush garden bed. The plants grow behind a low stone retaining wall surrounded by green foliage and trees.
A small white cottage with a metal roof sits nestled in a lush, wooded landscape. A stone staircase leads up through dense greenery and purple flowers toward the homes entrance.
A rustic wood-sided cabin with a covered porch and metal roof nestled among tall pine trees. A vintage red Coca-Cola vending machine sits on the porch next to a gravel driveway.
A rustic wooden cabin viewed from the outside at dusk, featuring a large floor-to-ceiling window that looks into an interior living space. The cabin is nestled among tall trees against a sunset sky.