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Treasure Cay, Bahamas 2009

The Davids garden is an imaginative study on what can be planted in the toughest of Bahamian beachfront elements.  Water creates linkage within the landscape, by lapping the sea lavender-draped shoreline, spilling from the infinity edge pool and reflecting the sculpted overhanging rock formations of the entry garden streams.  Raymond Jungles utilized the entire site as well as the borrowed beachfront landscape to create a visual and an auditory garden dialogue.

The client brought Raymond in to design a swimming pool and a garden that would have minimal maintenance and could withstand the elements; harsh sun, salt spray, and sea breeze.  Plants were not only selected for their beauty, but for their parsimonious water requirements and appropriateness to the site.  Raymond designed the swimming pool with an infinity edge towards the garden, which animates the garden and creates an optical illusion, making the pool appear to be the source of the water for the streams.

Water elements were requested to create drama to the approach of the residence.  As visitors enter the garden from the heavily planted roadway, they walk on a boardwalk through and over four water features, with a series of waterfalls, streams and bridges connected by an old nautical rope discovered during one of the client’s fishing excursions.

This project exemplifies Raymond’s role in the shaping of the built and garden environments to enhance the client’s lifestyle, appreciation for beauty, and desire to have a sustainable beachfront garden.