Oehme van Sweden and Associates, Inc.

Sculpture 🤝 garden​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
This site of a former nursery in Amagansett, NY is now a two-acre retreat for two art collectors and their family. Carefully placed sculpture, allows for interplay of garden and art throughout the property. This large- scale sculpture nestled in the garden is by Japanese sculpture Jun Kaneko.

📷: Antoine Bootz

Lots more summertime ahead. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

An iconic Hamptons beach house sits perched at the edge of the ocean surrounded by a plant palette tolerant of the salt and wind.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Eric Groft

Join Eric Groft, OvS Director and CEO for​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A Book Signing & Cocktail Celebration
Wednesday, August 7th, 4-6 PM
Mecox, 1940 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill

RSVP: [email protected]

📷: Rachel Jawin .jawin

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This ultimate seaside garden sits on approximately one acre and juts perilously into Long Island Sound. Planted with native species and tough shrubs that stand up to brutal winds and driving surf, these gardens surround a house that dates from the 19th-century, when it was a Victorian ​​​​​​​​​Cottage. Large slabs of locally quarried granite form the terrace of the tidal pool-inspired elliptical swimming pool, while stone piers hold up a timber frame cypress arbor ​​​​​​​​​that provides shade and protection from the sun and wind.

📷: Durston Saylor

OvS Senior Designer, Rachel Jawin, will be traveling to Traverse City, MI to present on the topic of intentional design at the "Great Lakes, Great Plants" event on July 25-26 at The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park (). ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Link in Bio to Purchase tickets!

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. that features this lush roof garden with Salvia 'Caradonna', sedum 'Autumn Fire', and Calagmagrostis brachytricha, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Sara Downing, OvS Principal

Details matter. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Richard Felber

The perfect summer container plantings. ✨​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Sara Downing

An outdoor room with a view! The new home of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center is at a state-of-the-art facility with several roof terraces that feature stunning views of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol grounds.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Sara Downing, OvS Principal

OvS was honored to receive a Merit Award in Residential Design from the Potomac Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for our work at Basil Green, a Mediterranean-inspired “White Garden” on a hillside in McLean, Virginia. Achillea millefolium ‘New Vintage White’ (yarrow), Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’ (windflower) and Baptisia alba (white wild indigo) are some of the white-flowering species in the garden.
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Thanks to our amazing clients and landscape contractor for helping to make this garden a reality.
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Image: Refract Photography LLC (image 1); Andrea Hanks (image 2,3)
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AIA has hit DC! We’re excited to welcome architects from across the country to our hometown. OvS principals Lili Herrera and Sara Downing are on site and also giving tours of some of our projects in the area.

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Are you a Bridgerton fan? Ever wonder how achieve a Regency-Inspired Garden? Check out a recent article in Homes and Gardens that features OvS Principal, Stacilyn Feldman .ovs. (Link to article in Bio)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷:

With gratitude and reverence for those who gave all. May we never forget. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“Having grown up in Suzhou, China, I see gardens as an essential part of my childhood memory and life experience. I like OvS’s intimate relationship with gardens and plants. Our boutique firm gives me a well-rounded experience for both residential gardens and commercial projects with high design quality.” - OvS Associate, You Li pictured here at New Vernon Farm during tree install with contractors.
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Virginia Historic Garden Week brought warm weather and opened all sorts of blooms across the state.
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We spent last Friday at Oak Spring, in Upperville. This garden is very important to us as we have spent many hours, in partnership with Oak Spring Garden Foundation , preparing the “Little Oak Spring Landscape Report” which details the historical, cultural and horticultural development of Rachel “Bunny” Mellon’s Little Oak Spring.
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OvS staff , .shagle joined our friend .heslop, who is now a member of the Oak Spring staff.
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📷: Asha Shagle
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To be part of the OvS team is to be part of a family that extends for generations (really). Once you’ve worked inside these hallowed bank building walls, you’ve joined ranks with some pretty esteemed company, some who still work here and others who have moved on. We’re an elite class but our commitment to community, good design and horticulture is unrivaled.

There are a lot of special places and people in this world, but we wouldn’t trade our OvS family.

Did you know that some trees have knees?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​We are focusing on a unique tree for World Landscape Architecture month: Taxodium distichum, bald cypress. Here is one that lives in the pond at the Science Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The trees "knees" are woody growths that begin to develop with the tree stands in wet conditions. They are not fully understood yet, but they are believed to serve multiple purposes: from providing stability and strength to facilitating air exchange for submerged roots.

Come to to see OvS Principal Lili Herrera as part of a panel on historic architecture at the Boston Design Week! Click the link in our bio to reserve your space!

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024
Event: “Preserving & Celebrating Historic Homes” Panel
Venue: Serena & Lily Chestnut Hill
Address: 220 Boylston Street Newton, MA 02467
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Other panelists include Jocelyn Chiappone, Digs Design Co., Patrick Ahearn, FAIA, Patrick Ahearn Architect, Sarah Baldwin Annicelli, Baldwin Burke Interiors

Moderator Jaci Conry, Editor in Chief,



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Every day is Earth Day.​​​​​​​​​_____​​​​​​​​​The four seasons of the Great Basin at Chicago Botanic Garden.

📷: Nate Mathews

Biodiversity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Green Roof at Chicago Botanic Garden's Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center is the nexus for the Garden’s plant conservation efforts. The five-acre site was conceived as a model sustainable system. The 38,000-square foot building is elevated on pylons and allows the entire site—called the Rainwater Glen—to act as a bioswale. It also features a 16,000 square foot research and display green roof. Excess rainwater not absorbed by the roof flows through the building and is released into the landscape below. Combined with surface run-off, the Glen treats 96% of the rainwater events before releasing the cleansed water into the Garden’s lake and lagoon system. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Robin Carlson

A great park brings life to a community. OvS has had the privilege of designing one of the great parks of New York City and in doing so, provided the southern tip of Manhattan with a place to bask, run, play and explore along the Hudson River. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, built on landfill adjacent to the Hudson River, is the largest public open space in Battery Park City. The park’s framework of stone walls and cobble pavements are reminiscent of Central Park and the fully accessible grounds accommodate a variety of active and passive recreational uses. An upper level terrace features sitting areas, ball courts, plantings and a large lily pond. A lower level terrace has playing fields, meadow plantings, paths and jogging trails that overlook the river. The low-maintenance plant palette provides year-round interest and respects both the native Hudson River Valley landscape and the Long Island shoreline beach environment.

📷: Courtesy of TCLF

A day in the life of a Landscape Architect can be different one day to the next. A planting day out in the field is always our favorite kind of day. One of the hallmarks of OvS is our “boots on the ground” approach. We never shy from getting dirty and we love being out in the field. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

It is "Pollinator Places" Day for World Landscape Architecture Month. We strive to design gardens that include biodiverse and native species that support a variety of insects and animals including pollinators.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​📷: Marisa Scalera