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Forest school & home

Combining a home forest school business and a play area for elementary school children, we designed four different areas: front yard, constructed play, natural play and screening with forest regeneration. Local materials, native and edible plants and many trees ground this project on a beautiful rolling site.

Meadow and forest

A new purchase with an over abundance of lawn, in this project we removed more than half of the existing lawn and planted a meadow in the front yard and a young forest in the back to screen neighbors. Turf removal, custom seed mixes and tree and shrub planting implemented over several years brings this residence to life every season of the year

pollinator garden

This client wanted to remove invasive plants under an existing canopy near his perimeter rock wall and replace it with a pollinator garden. We executed this with mechanical pulling, sheet mulching and smothering and then came back and planted perennials, shrubs, ferns and trees to create this habitat-rich pollinator garden with seasonal interest..

forest park playscape - st. louis, mo

This Playscape of seventeen acres of restored prairie and woodland in the middle of Forest Park St. Louis invites visitors to explore a continuous ADA path that visits 7 ecologically themed play spaces that are enjoyed by school groups, families, dog walkers and nature enthusiasts. Rubus was the landscape architect consultant in partnership with Interboro Partners & David Mason Assoc.s

Abraham baldwin middle school - guilford, ct

Funded by the Baldwin PTO, Rubus designed a nature-based play space within the Baldwin outdoor recess area. We partnered with A&W Sanitation to install this interactive area using locally-sourced logs and boulders. Elements include: outdoor classroom, balancing play, climbing play and two trailhead leading to Bitner Park.

erie canal - trailheads - medina, ny

The New York Power Authority is leading a “Reimagine the Canals” initiative to improve and repair key elements of the Erie Canal. The The canal adjacent to the Medina falls is a beautiful portion of the Erie canal and Rubus Landscape Architecture is working as part of a team on three trailheads and the improvement of the pedestrian and bike paths throughout this area.