Garden Exploration: A Modern Dutch Garden With a Classical Twist

Photography courtesy of Martin Veltkamp

Dutch garden designer Martin Veltkamp, known for creating tranquil landscapes composed around distinctly geometric forms, created a modern minimalist garden to surround a large villa in the Netherlands. The classic elements of the design could be translated, in a smaller scale, to nearly any garden:

An undulating hedge of precisely pruned boxwood looks like an outcrop of rocks in a sea of crushed bluestone.

Veltkamp designs furniture and accessories, including planters, for his gardens.

Veltkamp prefers the "non-color" of black as a backdrop to greenery.

Firewood is stacked against the house at the end of a gravel path.

Quarried bluestone steps and pea gravel create a unified palette.

The planters have been painted to match the trim on the house.

The view from the house: a swimming pool surrounded by bluestone pavers and layers of green texture.

Metal edging creates true right angles where grass, planting bed, paver, and gravel all meet.

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