CARLO AND Lalie Scandiuzzi have renovated their garden and 1947 stucco home in Madison Park several times over the more than two decades theyve lived there. A 1995 kitchen addition wings out to create a sheltered courtyard that catches the morning sunshine. Fragrant Daphne odora Marginata makes sitting outside and sipping coffee on a warm spring morning pure heaven.

The couple hired landscape architect Keith Geller in 2000 to create more such sublime scenes and vignettes in their garden. He designed a major renovation, front and back, and has been tweaking the garden ever since. I pretty much did everything but the fig tree, says Keller of the big, old fig that overhangs the back patio to create a shady canopy for the outdoor dining table.

The hardscaping was mostly in place; Geller was tasked with designing the softscaping. Lalie and Carlo, who is executive director of ACT Theatre, use the garden for entertaining and to host events. Space for outdoor dining, pathways for strolling, and fragrant plants were high on the agenda.

The garden is part of the house; we live out here. We remodeled the house so we could best see and interact with the garden, says Lalie.

The property is a lot-and-a-half settled comfortably into a hillside. Keller gave the front garden a pastoral meadow feel with grasses and shrubs cascading down the slope. He softened the stair railing with a climbing hydrangea and added punctuation points of Italian cypress to reflect the style of the home.

Being an experienced gardener, Lalie asked not only for beauty but also for low maintenance. Keller obliged by planting evergreens such as boxwood and pittosporum. He chose mostly drought-tolerant plants, and massed them for effect and easier care. Lalie and Carlo both grew up in Geneva; Carlo is Italian, and the cypress are a nod to his ancestry. Lalie spent her youth in the country, and she loves how the informality of the front garden and the plants arranged like an Impressionist painting remind her of her childhood landscape.

Its not a Northwest garden, says Geller, who designed the plantings to go with the homes architecture. He plays around with rounded clumps and masses of rockroses and small evergreens for texture and flow through the gardens, and ornamental grasses for softness. Hes planted plenty of scented flowers, including lavender, daphnes and an oleander that has made it through the winters in its sheltered spot near the back deck. Geller also planted a lot of Lalies favorite chartreuse foliage, and blue, white and orange flowers, including crocosmia, iris, hellebores and agapanthus. Rhododendrons, boxwood and beautyberries lend structure and bloom through the seasons.

Masses of willowy white Japanese anemones light up the far reaches of the garden. When the couple and their guests sit outdoors around a fire late into the evening, the anemones glow in the reflection of the moon, and seem to dance along the back fence.

I love how Keith brings mystery and intrigue into the garden, says Lalie. Geller added boulders with curved paths around them and planted shrubs so you cant see the entire garden at once. Flowery vignettes draw guests along the pathways for a closer look.

The creative dialogue between Lalie and Geller has been going on for 14 years now. Heres how Lalie describes their creative collaboration: I have a vision. Keith and I discuss it, and Keith sees what I mean. With his mastery of plants and architecture, he makes it come alive. And then we play around with it.

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Although glass and screens have eliminated the practical need for shutters, theyre still popular for decoration. They add another layer of thoughtful detailing to a house, says Ted Cleary, a landscape architect in Charlotte, North Carolina.

But to get the right look, you still have to consider function when choosing and hanging shutters, experts say.

Beauty in architecture, as with many objects, often stems from seeing a detail that illustrates its purpose, Cleary says.

A pair of shutters can cost anywhere from $100 to more than $1,000. Some tips on choosing the right ones for your home:

Size

Originally, shutters were used to keep out weather, noise and animals; when closed, they had to cover the whole window.

So shutter size is the most important thing to consider, says Lindsay Daniel, a Charlotte architect, who agrees with Cleary that homeowners must think function first, not decoration.

Make sure the shutters meet and completely cover the window opening. Otherwise, she says, the shutter looks like a stupid afterthought.

This means that shutters dont work on double-width or picture windows, says Richard Taylor, an architect and president of RTA Studio in Dublin, Ohio. To my eye anyway, it looks ridiculous, he says.

And take care about their shape when hanging shutters on arched windows, Cleary adds. Shutters are perfectly legitimate on arched windows as long as the (closed) shutter covers it, he says.

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Although glass and screens have eliminated the practical need for shutters, theyre still popular for decoration.

They add another layer of thoughtful detailing to a house, said Ted Cleary, a landscape architect in Charlotte, N.C.

But to get the right look, you still have to consider function when choosing and hanging shutters, experts say.

Beauty in architecture, as with many objects, often stems from seeing a detail that illustrates its purpose, Cleary said.

A pair of shutters can cost anywhere from $100 to more than $1,000. Some tips on choosing the right ones for your home:

Size

Originally, shutters were used to keep out weather, noise and animals; when closed, they had to cover the whole window.

So shutter size is the most important thing to consider, said Lindsay Daniel, a Charlotte architect, who agrees with Cleary that homeowners must think function first, not decoration.

Make sure the shutters meet and completely cover the window opening. Otherwise, she said, the shutter looks like a stupid afterthought.

This means that shutters dont work on double-width or picture windows, said Richard Taylor, an architect and president of RTA Studio in Dublin, Ohio. To my eye anyway, it looks ridiculous, he said.

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Last summer, landscape architect David Fierabend was tasked with turning a vacant lot on Broad Street into a peaceful pop-up garden for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. The best indication that his woodland garden - shaded by a copse of graceful honey locusts - had succeeded? How little visitors noticed his handiwork.

"People would come in and say, 'David, you're really lucky these trees were here,' because they seemed like they belonged," said Avram Hornik of Four Corners Management, which worked on the pop-up. "And that's the skill. You can't train someone to do that. Either you have it or you don't have it - and David has it."

Over the last few years, that skill has made Fierabend (pronounced FEER-ra-ben), principal at Groundswell Design Group based in Hopewell, N.J., the go-to design mind for turning ugly and underutilized corners of the city into inviting temporary and permanent "outdoor lifestyle spaces" - that is, pop-up parks, beer gardens, and restaurants.

His latest extreme makeover, which opens to the public Friday, is the rebranded $700,000-plus Spruce Street Harbor Park, once an uninspired stretch of land along Columbus Boulevard. The temporary design, commissioned by the Delaware River Waterfront Corp. (DRWC) as a way to generate excitement and spur development along the river, transforms the park into a destination with boardwalks, swaying hammocks, and a floating restaurant.

Gesturing out toward the barges, where shipping-container concession booths were already installed and workers in a rowboat were coaxing a series of floating garden beds into place, he added, "Look at the flags flapping in the breeze, the trees swaying, and the grasses: I want visitors to feel something that taps into childhood experience, or a really nice moment in their life."

It's more than just landscaping: "We're now involved in this place-making business in Philadelphia," he said.

He has at least eight such projects underway this summer from Wilmington to New York. Many are playful reimaginings of summer in the city.

His work with the DRWC - begun in winter when he and Hornik helped reinvigorate the Blue Cross RiverRink by, as he puts it, "dropping a winter wonderland into a parking lot" - includes a beach-inspired update to Festival Pier.

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