Hidden Oak Haus at dusk, a lit fire table under the steel pergola with the glass wall of the house beyond

Luxury Residential · Highland, Utah · 2026

Like the land remembered itself

Hidden Oak Haus.

Highland, Utah2026 Parade of Homes105 trees

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The arrival · motor court and front elevation

The front, as the Parade saw it.

Every square inch designed. None of it looks placed.

The shape of the job

days from site walk to a full plan set

105

trees specified across 14 species

zones designed as one connected site

01 · The Brief

The clock was already running.

It started with a text from Brent Miller at Mountain Point Land Works. “I need a real landscape architect. Give me a call.” Brandon was on vacation. He wrote back anyway: “I may know one or two real landscape architects.”

Robison Build Co had built the house on spec and sold it before it was finished. The landscape was already drawn and bid. And it was a Parade home, which meant a quick turnaround and a date nobody could move.

The new owners knew what they wanted. Poor landscaping and poor lighting, they told us, is a disservice to a really nice home. Everything had to be the best.

It also had to feel really, really natural. Scandinavian. Long grasses. Never bare. Perfect and wild, in other words. Those two rarely get along.

Basalt column fountains rising from a bed of black stone and grasses

**The homeowner** · the first design call

April 2026 · what we started with

April 7, six days after the first site walk. The pool was a concrete shell, and the creek was rock and liner against the glass. Not one plant was in the ground.

The pool, before · a concrete shell and standing water

The creek, before · rock and liner against the glass

The water feature, before · a raw concrete trough

The concept, drawn · Morpholio timelapse, 7 April 2026

LP101 · Planting Plan, Trees L64 planting plan sheet LP101, the tree plan, showing the site plan and the plant schedule

One hundred and five trees. Each one on purpose.

Every tree drawn to a size and a spot. The four fruit trees are there because one of the owners asked for a peach, an apple and a cherry.

The plan, built

Same view as the drawing. This time, with a hundred and five trees in it.

The whole yard at dusk, from above

The tension

Most Parade yards look installed. This one had to look like it grew there.

**Kory Robison** · Builder, Robison Build Co

The pool terrace · the house after dark The pool at dusk, the lit house and covered patio reflected in still water

Evening is prime time.

The lighting plan we inherited was a placeholder. We lit it for the hours they’d actually be out here. Fire at dusk. Sauna at dawn.

Walk the site

Both neighbors sit close, so we screened them with trees, not walls. Slender silhouette sweet gums went in eighteen inches apart, tight enough to read as one green wall. The grass between the pavers is real, too. The owners didn’t want synthetic turf anywhere.

The entry · three scuppers into a black trough

Grass runs through the paver field

The west garden · a meandering path

02 · The Approach

Six zones, fourteen days.

Design like this usually takes months. We had two weeks, so we cleared the calendar and put the whole team on it.

Nate Jaramillo ran the day to day. The first planting plan went out a week after the site walk, and revised sets kept coming as the owners weighed in.

Brent’s crew was already on site, so we stayed a step ahead of them the whole way. The specimen trees came in from Oregon, chosen big so nothing would look planted yesterday.

The day we signed on, he texted: “We are excited to be able to have you guys involved.” Not every contractor says that about the architect.

A specimen Japanese maple against the dark siding and stone, an arched window lit beside it

The site, up closeThe courtyard, the sanctuary, the planting, the arched wing

The creek · the spine of the house The lit creek running past the arched windows to the covered patio at dusk

The centerpiece, with an eye on it.

They asked for an eye on every rock. So we placed each one, then lit the whole run, from the arched glass to the living room.

03 · The Result

Built the way it was drawn.

The yard opened with the house for the 2026 Utah Valley Parade of Homes.

Nothing blocks the creek from the primary suite. The steel pergola that once looked straight into the neighbor’s pool sits behind a screen of trees now. And the pool terrace reads as one surface, with grass stitched right through it.