Long Valley Pool Landscape

Beautiful stone area with plantings, mulch, and stone retaining wall

THE CHALLENGE

The owners of this Long Valley estate had a beautiful pool but unfinished grounds to match. The open acreage lacked structure, the rear slope needed attention, and nothing connected the home, barn, and pool into a cohesive outdoor space. They came to BTS with one goal: transform the raw property into an estate-quality landscape, without touching the pool surround.

OUR APPROACH

Fire Garden Patio: Designed and installed a circular gravel patio as the backyard centerpiece, set into a sweeping planting bed with a young specimen tree and perennial surround.

Perennial Garden Beds: Installed layered beds throughout the property featuring lavender, salvia, ornamental grasses, and silvery low-growing perennials selected for four-season interest.

Foundation and Outbuilding Plantings: Installed clean, mulched foundation beds around both the main home and barn to tie the buildings into the broader landscape.

Privacy Tree Line: Reinforced the rear perimeter with arborvitae to enclose the space and give the grounds a sense of depth and boundary.

Mulch garden bed with stone steps leading to an inground pool in Long Valley, NJ

THE RESULTS

The fire garden patio anchors the backyard with a place to gather that feels intentional. Layered perennial beds unify the property from front to back, and the privacy tree line gives the estate the sense of enclosure it needed to feel complete. A landscape built to be enjoyed through every season.

KEY FEATURES

✔ Fire Garden Patio: Circular gravel gathering space with specimen tree and perennial surround
✔ Perennial Gardens: Layered seasonal color, lavender, salvia, ornamental grasses
✔ Foundation Plantings: Bed installations anchoring the home and barn
✔ Privacy Screen: Arborvitae tree line defining the rear perimeter