Sylvan Park

Stowe, Vermont

Forest Gardens + Wildflower Meadow

Sylvan Park aims to challenge the status-quo of landscape contracting and conventional garden design by using a sustainable, organic approach to the built environment. Implementing environmental trade-offs, enacting progressive ideologies and applying adaptive re-use, we create regenerative landscapes that thrive. Aside from the use of a gas-powered push mower, the lawn care regimen at Sylvan Park is the definition of a sustainable lawn. All clippings and debris are either left in place or re-purposed on site. 100 percent, straight native species are used in the wildflower meadow design. A forest garden was installed in later Summer of 2021 using shade-tolerant species, providing the home-owner with a reliable food source.  The future of Sylvan Park will offer the local neighborhood insight into a permanent culture by obtaining yields, eliminating waste and using incremental solutions.

Sylvan Park aims to challenge the status-quo of landscape contracting and conventional garden design by using a sustainable, organic approach to the built environment. Implementing environmental trade-offs, enacting progressive ideologies and applying adaptive re-use, we create regenerative landscapes that thrive. Aside from the use of a gas-powered push mower, the lawn care regimen at Sylvan Park is the definition of a sustainable lawn. All clippings and debris are either left in place or re-purposed on site. 100 percent, straight native species are used in the wildflower meadow design. A forest garden was installed in later Summer of 2021 using shade-tolerant species, providing the home-owner with a reliable food source.  The future of Sylvan Park will offer the local neighborhood insight into a permanent culture by obtaining yields, eliminating waste and using incremental landscape solutions.

Designer: Ronny Stelly
Landscape Contractors: Joe Slaimen + Ronny Stelly
Date: 2020-current
Site Metrics: .58 acres