Kimberly Mercurio Landscape Architecture is a Cape Cod and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based landscape architecture practice specializing in detailed design for private residences, commercial spaces and institutional clients. We design distinctive landscapes that resonate with the surrounding architecture and regional conditions. Our design work brings an open-mindedness to each project, focusing on unique landscapes tailored specifically to a particular site. Committed to providing the highest level of professional service, we offer a complete range of landscape architecture services, including master planning, permitting, historic design restoration, site-specific planting, ecological sustainability, project management and custom design of landscape structures.
Landscape Architecture requires the understanding of the local environment, construction practices and the professional skills and foresight to design to a client's goals and wishes. We work closely with our clients to offer a thoughtful collaborative approach to landscape design that is unique and detailed. KMLA creates timeless landscape design, built to inspire and enrich the quality of life of its inhabitants. The best residential landscape designs evolve out of a collaborative process. It starts with a conversation that helps us fully understand our client's aesthetic sensibilities.
If you look high up into a Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) during the winter, you’ll see something that resembles flower petals splayed out against the background of the sky. These are the bottom scales that were left behind on their fruits. Tulip Poplar fruits develop during the summer, then...
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Yew trees were seen by the druids as being immortal, able to grow their branches down into the earth to form new trees which often twist together surrounding the original trunk. As old branches die new life can form within them. A tree that looks old and withered is constantly renewing itself, or...
Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871.⠀ ⠀A painting by the American painter Martin Johnson Heade. In 1863, Heade, an aspiring naturalist, made the first of three trips to Brazil to paint the brilliantly colored hummingbird, creating at least forty-five canvases. Although Heade’s plan to...