Crowley Cottrell

📸 Before and After! The Mary Jane Lee Park in Salem, MA,
1. Open lawn space with shaded area to play
2. A custom structured pergola with picnic tables underneath and a water play station in front!
3. Updated playground equipment zone
4. The park before

New pictures of Keuhn's Way affordable housing on Martha's Vineyard!
1 & 2 Kids play on the deck that joins the houses and creates accessible entries
3. Mich and Naomi at the ribbon cutting
4. We worked with Architects, Engineers and Builders to help streamline the building process and save as many trees on site as possible
5. Houses fabricated off-island helped control impact
6. Houses being barged to the island

🌞 Hydrangeas are incredible this year!

🍄 Anyone asking why? The rain we experienced last summer and the mild temperatures this past winter seemed to be good ingredients for the extraordinary flowering we are seeing!

What a joy to show off this garden for a TCLF Garden Dialogue!

🌳 BSLA Field Day! Earlier in June BSLA hosted New England’s Conference on Landscape Architecture.

🏆 Naomi introduced as she was presented an award by BSLA. Kim has been an incredible partner throughout all of our collaborative efforts - congratulations Kim!

🥳 And congratulations to everyone that spoke and received awards - we’re excited for next year already!

📸 Photography:

🎇 Happy 4th of July!
📍 Fort Sewall in Marblehead, MA

🏠🌿🌱 Before and After shots of a property in Concord, MA!

Driving past one of our Concord residential projects today - meadow in full action!

🌊 A recent coastal residency had erosion issues after high tides through the winter. Here’s our solution!

Thank you to !!

🌵 Native cactus blooming on the Boston greenway today!!

🍀 Tickets are still available! Come join us with The Cultural Landscape Foundation on Saturday, June 29th, to learn about the design of a Concord, MA property!!
Hope to see you there!!

Garden Dialogues 2024: Concord, MA | TCLF The exact address is only shared with ticket purchasers for privacy reasons. Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

Quick check in on one of our projects in the Berkshires. Great collaboration with and

Great turnout for the opening of phase 2 of the Roslindale Wetlands Urban Wild!

📸 Before and After at Hovey Park in Lowell, MA!

🌳 Come join us on June 29th, in Concord MA, as Mich talks about this beautiful 2.4 acre property that was re-designed to showcase the natural landscape.

🥳 See you there!

👇 Find more information and the registration at the link below.

https://www.tclf.org/garden-dialogues-2024-concord-ma?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--spKbYMxmMhOMJu1x0DSzACHF-Kq-o9NwU5_9XsG_xdSiFhRPKm2TVzjp7_Gp20wYDOv-X2CWm5PmJwJH-0aZrIkFViw&_hsmi=312452821&utm_content=312452821&utm_source=hs_email&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR30X_nz-x92-e4ntPmFX49MXgjJmjvwwT-Ap2_NjI1c2dhhpjIDr-ExfgA_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

"Register now to explore this exceptional 2.4-acre property with rolling meadows, a rich rewilded habitat, and a densely forested perimeter designed to blur the edges between the client’s estate and the surrounding conservation land. This charming landscape features sunny perennial gardens, low-bush blueberry, specimen trees, lush native plantings and picturesque views of a meadow and wooded valley.

This exclusive tour will be led by the landscape architect and principal of Crowley Cottrell, Michelle Crowley, Architect Kelly Ennis Connellan of Jill Neubauer Architects, and Botanica Fine Gardens Meadow Consultant/Installation, Ed Kutchmanich."

Garden Dialogues 2024: Concord, MA | TCLF The exact address is only shared with ticket purchasers for privacy reasons. Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

Had an exciting site visit on a project in Amherst, MA the other week!!

👏 Congratulations to and our team on the Lincoln Land Institute project in Cambridge for its second award for Historic Preservation, this time the Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award by

🌳The Opening of Ashley Park was this week! 🌿Congratulations to everyone involved!
“Crowley Cottrell, a renowned landscape architecture firm, engaged with neighborhood stakeholders in designing the new park, and local contractor P.A. Landers did the construction work over the last year.” From the

🌿🌳Planting day at Pioneer Terrace!

Excited to Announce the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Award to our Fort Sewell project in Marblehead. Thanks to the Jury! Thanks to our clients in Marblehead!

Summer is right around the corner!

👏 That’s All Folks for Landscape Architecture month!
🌳 April was Landscape Architecture Month and we posted about our work, philosophies, team members, and exciting plant features! Thank you all for coming along with us this month to celebrate Landscape Architecture!

🌎💚 The Crowley Cottrell Team!!
🌳Throughout the last 29 days of posting you’ve gained an insight into our projects, which wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing team!

🌱🌳🌷 Our favorite plants! Well… just a few - It’s hard to choose favorites but these would be on our team’s list!

1. Tamarack - Larix laricina
2. Water Lily - Nymphaea
3. Oakleaf Hydrangea - Hydrangea quarcifolia
4. Barren Strawberry - Waldsteinia fragarioides
5. Sassafras - Sassafras albidum
6. Cornelian Cherry - Cornus mas
7. Flowering Dogwood - Cornus Florida
8. Weeping Cherry - Prunus subhirtella
9. Himalayan Birch - Betula utilis

🌳 Why would we post about sad looking trees for Landscape Architecture Month??
Glad you asked.
We value trees, we love trees, we plant trees (lots of them), and we protect trees.
So we were very excited when we won the contract for a renovation to this park (name and location not given to protect the innocent)!
These trees have been working so hard to survive after their entire root system was paved over in the 1990s. But they are stronger than asphalt, stronger than benches, and stronger than concrete pads.
We look forward to releasing these trees from their captivity when construction starts in the fall.
Check back for a status report… and go hug a tree… plant a tree… work to save a threatened tree within your neighborhood… or ALL OF THE ABOVE!

🌞 Over the past 13 years, designing for Seniors has been one of the largest and fastest-growing parts of our portfolio.
🌳 We believe in the importance of aging well and how landscapes can be part of healthy living.
👩‍🦽‍➡️In our senior living facilities we focus on designing to connect the residents through outdoor areas such as courtyards, community gardens, strolling loops, and active recreational opportunities.
🌷 In an example of our work for a dementia care facility we are designing to trigger positive memories through the senses- smell, touch, and sound in a sensory garden.
🌻 This Spring we are so excited to be finish up construction phase activities on our largest senior housing project. The Baldwin.

🌎 Crowley Cottrell is working with engineers and climate specialists to plan for expected and currently observed sea level rise.
🌱 Landscape Architects are important to this process bringing knowledge about livable landscapes to engineering solutions.
🙋Keeping people in mind while solving climate crisis problems is what we do.

🌻Biodiversity 🌱Looking to build their forever home, the clients bought a 2.4-acre parcel adjacent to conservation land.
Previous owners of the property had clearcut the lot corner to corner exposing a wall of White Pines on the adjacent conservation land. Crowley Cottrell worked in tandem with to help the young couple site their modern farmhouse home and long winding driveway.
With the client’s wishes for ecological and privacy in mind, Crowley Cottrell designed a plan to reforest the edges of their property, blurring the edges between their land and the forest beyond.
Gardens embrace all sides of the house, moving from sunny perennial gardens on the east, woodland garden on the north, and lush native groundcovers and shrubs which surround a terrace on the west. Informal grand steps and steppingstone paths lead from the terrace and south lawn down a low-bush blueberry covered embankment to a lower play lawn with the meadow and wooded valley beyond.
An expansive meadow wraps the gardens, providing an agrarian view from the kitchen and foyer. Specimen trees thicken into woodland where the property is separated from the road by a restored stone wall.
Insects and wildlife abound in this rewilded landscape, restoring the previously degraded site into a rich habitat bound to thrill its occupants for many seasons to come.
And thank you for bringing these plans to life!!

🌱🌷 Crowley Cottrell worked with Nitsch Engineering to design a series of rain gardens for the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s new Computer Science Laboratory.
The project’s biggest challenge was navigating steep grade change with accessible slopes while providing enough space to capture the site’s stormwater within a limited footprint.
We designed a series of cascading rain gardens over which an ADA compliant ramp crosses, leading to the main entrance of the new building.
thank you for the renderings!