Gardens are slow architecture.

Terra & Form designs landscapes that get better every year you own them. Structure from hedges and stone, softness from grasses and light, patience from us.

Landscape Architecture
Denver · Boulder · Fictional

Designed garden courtyard at golden hour with ornamental grasses and limestone pavers

Hollow Creek Residence · Year three

The Work

Every garden begins as a drawing. Drag to watch one grow up.

The finished garden, three years after planting

The hand-drawn landscape plan for the same garden

Drawn · 2022 Grown · 2025

Hollow Creek Residence, plan to planting. Imagery AI-generated for this fictional concept study.

Services

Three ways we work with land.

Master plans

The whole property thought through at once: grading, water, structure, and a planting plan sequenced over three to five years, so the budget can breathe.

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Courtyards & small gardens

City lots, patios, and the awkward strip beside the driveway. Small spaces reward precision more than acreage ever does.

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Stewardship

We return in every season for the first three years: editing, dividing, replacing, and teaching the garden its manners while it settles in.

A year in the garden

Designed for all four acts.

A garden that only performs in June is a photograph. Ours are written for the whole year.

The reveal.

Bulbs planted in October keep their promise. Hellebores first, then tulips through the fading grasses we deliberately left standing. The structure planting leafs out and the garden's rooms get their walls back.

The Studio

Drawn by hand, on purpose.

Plans here start as pencil on trace, because a hand moves at the speed of thought and CAD moves at the speed of habit. The software comes later, for the contractors.

Founded 2011 (fictionally), two partners, six gardeners
Plant lists tuned to Colorado's front range: hail, drought, and all
Stone, steel, and timber sourced within the state where we can

Drafting table with hand-drawn garden plan, pressed leaves, and brass tools