From a record number of entries, Garden Design and the American Society of Landscape Architects picked the 14 best residential landscape designs. Take a look at a few of the winning gardens.
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For this rustic family retreat in the woods of Maine, landscape architect Todd Richardson created an "invisible-touch" landscape, blending the design almost imperceptibly into the site's existing rocky outcroppings, glades of ferns, and moss-covered boulders. The suspended footbridge of hemlock planks and steel cables was, as Richardon says, "surgically inserted" into the woods.