Barks Road

CREATING REMARKABLE
OUTDOOR SPACES

Step outside your home to a place where your family can relax, play, and entertain. Barks Road is passionate about creating timeless and sustainable outdoor spaces through landscape design, planning, installation, and management services for the greater Annapolis area. We design outdoor spaces that become an integral part of your landscape. Whether intimate or spacious, elegant or modern, classic or contemporary, we believe each homeowner can have a truly special oasis.

WHAT WE DO

GARDEN CREATIONS

Our lives and our families are reflected in our spaces. This rings true even more so in today’s world.

From concept to completion, we strive to create outdoor spaces that capture the needs, wants and dreams of our clients. Our cohesive, considered and inspired designs will amplify your connection to nature. We bring the highest level of expertise, commitment, technical ability and enthusiasm to every project. From a seasonal container garden to an expansive waterfront estate, we create, design and execute sustainable, environmentally sound, inspirational landscapes.

MANAGEMENT

We provide complete landscaping services, including residential, commercial, and garden maintenance.

Gardens are ever-evolving. No matter how well-executed a design, strategy, or plan is, the true measure of success is how your garden is loved, enjoyed, and cared for over time. We create lasting relationships with our customers and their gardens, providing year-round horticultural excellence to ensure your property thrives. Enjoy the beauty of your landscaping and leave the management and maintenance
to us.

OUR WORK

Gardens LARGER SCALE GARDENS

Containers SMALLER SCALE GARDENS

Seasonal Custom Seasonal Decorations

OUR TEAM

Eric Blamphin, RLA, Owner/Principal

Eric has a degree in landscape architecture, over 30 years of experience in the industry, and has been licensed in Maryland since 1996. In 2005, Eric founded Barks Road, named after his childhood home in upstate New York. He grew up surrounded by the pastoral scenery of a former dairy farm, and its natural beauty is influential in his designs. Customers trust Eric implicitly with his choices and vision. One of his many talents is his ability to let the style and character of the environment, its structures, and the people who will be using it, inform and inspire the landscape design.

John Benoit, MLA

Director- Estate Management

As the head of estate management at Barks Road, John brings 25 years of hands-on experience in the horticultural industry coupled with a masters of landscape architecture. John has worked for landscape design and maintenance companies across the world. He consistently applies his extensive knowledge of garden design and proper maintenance to take client projects to the next level.

Pedro Contreras

Director- Construction Management

Pedro has mastered working with boulders and flagstones. Terracing, patios, and naturalized pool embankments are all part of his skillset,. For over 20 years, Pedro has been creating beautiful exterior spaces across Maryland, and we are so lucky to have him on the Barks Road team!

Michael Paddy

Master Carpenter

Michael is a true craftsman. From beautiful pavilions to sprawling decks to gorgeous gates/trellises, Mike uses his carpentry skills to enhace many of our enchanting spaces where our clients can relax and unwind. Maybe his ingenuity comes from his background in the arts, blending that creativity with natural wood material to fashion one of a kind structures.

Fredis Sola Rivera

Project Manager- Estate Management

Fredis is your property’s best friend. His knowledge and expertise in lawn and garden management is integral to keeping our projects perfect. A team player, his days are busy evaluating properties, leading crews, and troubleshooting the occasional irrigation/lighting issue.

Nina Bishop

Account Manager & Container Design

Nina has a background in horticulture. She is passionate about executing her visions and seeing them come to life through seasonal containers. Nina also manages our on-site greenhouse so we always have a palette of colorful plants to incorporate or supplement our designs.

Mark Kessinger

Senior Landscape Designer, B. S. Landscape Architecture

With 20+ years of experience in residential design and management and a Landscape Architecture degree from Virginia Tech, Mark brings his construction knowledge to the team. An original member of Barks Road, we are thrilled to have Mark back with us designing and managing projects with the detail we love.

Amy Wernecke

General Manager

Amy has an extensive background in home building with over two decades of experience and wears many hats at Barks Road! In addition to working with our design build division writing contracts and amendments, she is always ready to assist the team to get the job done.

Natalie Shina

Account Manager & Marketing

Natalie’s passion for marketing and social media brings a fresh perspective to Barks Road. Working as a Project Coordinator for the Estate Management division, she loves developing relationships with all of our clients and keeping projects on track.

We are hiring!

Barks Road is always looking for the next great team member to grow with us. Please see our careers section for more information.

Happy Clients

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Thank you for your amazing service this past year. We could not ask for more… Thank you for all your TLC.

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Barks Road designed and installed all of the landscaping on our 5-acre property. The result is spectacular! We have continued to use Barks Road for the past 5 years to manage our property and would recommend them to anyone looking for a creative design with first-class professional results.

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Thank you all so very much for creating such a gorgeous landscape. We are thrilled to spend time in our yard — even the kids (who, like kids notice nothing) — thought that the landscaping made our house look and feel like a home. I adore everything you did. The project is gorgeous. Thank you all — you are very, very talented and so nice and so fun to work with.

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The problem was a cluster development being built directly behind us in what had previously been a field of trees—Barks Road to the rescue! Landscape Designer David Warzyniak gave us a plan, which Barks Road subsequently implemented, that supplemented and meshed beautifully with our existing plantings using a combination of beautiful and healthy trees, shrubs, and perennials tailored to our site. His plant suggestions were creative yet ones that will thrive in our backyard environment. His carefully thought-out design included a path that draws the eye away from the development and makes the beholder focus on the path and the plantings surrounding the path. We look forward in the coming years to seeing David’s plan become fully effective as the trees and shrubs become truly established. We highly recommend this very professional firm.