Brent Paradis

About Brent Paradis

Brent Paradis works the stony hill-country soil around Bennington, where the Contoocook slips past the village mill and the afternoon light comes in sideways off the ridges. His is landscape design, plantings, and maintenance: beds drawn to fit the slope they're given, bluestone and concrete paver patios set true over ground that would rather not lie flat, water features that hand a yard a sound as well as a shape. There is a real satisfaction in a terrace that holds its line through a Monadnock winter and surfaces in April exactly where it was set, and in a border that thickens year over year until it looks like it was always meant to be there. That care carries from Peterborough and Hancock west toward Keene, and east through Milford, Amherst, and Bedford — places left with good bones and something growing into them.