Charlesworth Fleischacker Landscape Architects

This lush New Hope landscape designed by Charlesworth Fleischacker Landscape Architects is featured in the 2023 Bucks Beautiful Kitchen and Garden Tour Sunday June 11. Refer to www.bucksbeautiful.org for more information and tickets on this event that includes seven Bucks County homes. Proceeds from the tour benefit this group’s efforts in reforestation, education and beautification.

Spring colors along the woodland path for clients in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Meadow sweeps of Blue Flax at our Veterans Park, Plumstead, Bucks County seem especially lush this year.

QUARRY RECLAMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The closing of a 100-year old quarry in northern New Jersey becomes an opportunity for an innovative new community of homes, commerce and nature. With a forward-thinking developer and a team of design professionals, Charlesworth Fleischacker is working to transform this 180-acre site into a resilient, healthy community design that strongly embraces nature.
Starting with this blank slate, we look to design a model landscape that will regenerate healthy natural systems for soils, water (including a 40-acre lake), meadows, future woodlands and habitat. And thoughtfully woven into this fabric will be a unique community of homes, parks and places of commerce where residents and visitors can closely engage nature in the decades to come.

REGENERATIVE VILLAGE AND LANDSCAPE
Several hundred acres in central New Jersey have the potential to become a model regenerative village. Landscape architects Charlesworth Fleischacker, with a team of permaculturalists, water use experts and a visionary client, are formulating a design to create a residential village that reflects the scale and community feel of small hamlets found historically in central New Jersey. Yet the components of this village reflect a decidedly contemporary outlook—small footprint homes, regenerative storm water systems, farmland and fruit and nut orchards adjacent to homes, regenerated woodlands, a farm-to-table restaurant, and a nursery for native plants among others. We envision a model walkable community, where residents engage closely with the landscape, with nature, and with their neighbors.

LUSH PLANTED HILLSIDE ON PENNSYLVANIA LAKE
A client in eastern Pennsylvania asked Charlesworth Fleischacker for a solution to rocky eroding hillside overlooking a five-acre lake. We responded with a scheme of bold sweeps of plantings in tiered shelves and a stone stairway snuggled in the 30-foot drop. We worked with local builders on site to layout stairs and retaining walls of boulders and oversized recycled timbers. Not only did we stabilize the hillside but we created a lush natural canvas painted with bold textures and colors that changed with the seasons.

St. Stephens School, Rome, Italy

Working closely with a long-time colleague now based in Italy, Charlesworth Fleischacker brings a vision to rejuvenate the landscape of a century-old school campus. Our master plan shows opportunities for a garden classroom, gathering places for students and faculty, vegetable gardens paired with the school’s kitchens—all on a campus within sight of some of Rome’s ancient monuments. We have helped reimagine the courtyard core of the school as a calm green oasis for students and faculty. And at the core of our design work is, as always, the desire to make places where people can engage with nature and with each other.

Charlesworth Fleischacker received a 2016 Honor Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for their design of the cantilever cafe deck and surrounding urban meadow.