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The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has awarded a Connecticut Design Award to Dickson DeMarche Landscape Architects/The LaurelRock Company at 969 Danbury Road.

The chapter gives the Connecticut Design Awards each year to recognize excellence in landscape architectural design, planning and analysis, communication and research.

Dickson DeMarche Landscape Architects/The LaurelRock Company won a merit award for their work on a beachfront retreat in Westport, an entry in the built works/residential category.

The owners of a beachfront home in Westport purchased an adjacent house to create a compound for themselves and their grown children. The design challenges were significant: The owners wanted to make the second house subordinate to the main house; attractively include a tennis court in the front yard; increase privacy from the seasonally busy street; preserve specimen plants; and provide additional protection from nor’easter storms, according to a release.

The new tennis court was positioned close to the second house to emphasize that building’s ancillary role. A lattice fence was used as the tennis court enclosure, employing a garden to diminish the impact of the large void within. The two homes were then joined by stone paths and walkways through gardens.

Japanese black pine, inkberry, bayberry, tall ornamental grasses and a mixture of twiggy deciduous shrubs were planted to provide variety in color and texture while subduing views between the outdoor living areas and the road.

Broad lawn swaths were juxtaposed with planting beds of spirea, hydrangea, dwarf pines and perennials. The beds were mulched with washed pebbles and gravel to carry the beach theme through the landscape.

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