Aerial three-quarter view of a Hockessin Delaware estate: a multi-gable brick home sits at center, fronted by a sweeping curved brick paver driveway that wraps around a circular boxwood-planted oval centerpiece, with mature trees framing the property and a paver entry courtyard at the front door

Hockessin Estate

A curved brick paver driveway, boxwood-planted oval centerpiece, and estate-scale stonework on a Hockessin property.

Location Hockessin, DE
Project Type Landscape & Hardscape
Year Completed 2026
About this project

An Estate-Scale Landscape in Hockessin

This Hockessin estate had the architecture but not the surround. The owners asked for an entry sequence the home deserved, and an outdoor program that read as one connected design from the gate to the back patio.

We built a comprehensive landscape and hardscape program around this multi-gable brick estate, anchored on a sweeping curved brick paver driveway. The drive enters from a brick-columned gate at the road, sweeps past the house, and culminates in a circular paver loop around a boxwood-planted oval centerpiece. A brick paver entry courtyard meets the front doors, with a brick step landing and a small lamp-lit detail path. Along the side of the home, a flagstone walkway with stacked-stone bed edging threads past the equipment area down to the back of the property. At the elevation change, massive stone slab steps and boulder retaining walls hold the grade. Around back, a round paver patio with boulder edging and a larger paver patio with chaise seating step out to the lawn and woodland edge, with dogwoods and mature trees forming the backdrop.

The driveway loop and oval centerpiece give the home the kind of arrival you don't forget. The boxwoods will fill in over the next few seasons, and the back patios already see daily use.

Project Scope
  • Custom landscape & hardscape design
  • Curved brick paver driveway with circular loop
  • Boxwood-planted oval centerpiece
  • Brick paver entry courtyard & step landing
  • Brick gate columns at the road
  • Side flagstone walkway with stacked-stone bed edging
  • Stone slab steps (grade transition)
  • Boulder retaining walls
  • Round paver patio with boulder edging
  • Larger paver patio with chaise seating area
  • Comprehensive planting design (boxwoods, dogwoods, mulch beds)
  • Path and accent lighting
Before & After

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Before — Hockessin estate brick home with original asphalt circular driveway, an oval center bed of loose stones and patchy plantings, and basic foundation shrubs along the front of the house — Nature's Call Landscaping
After — Hockessin estate brick home with rebuilt brick paver walkway and entry, fresh charcoal asphalt driveway with brick borders, brick-edged boxwood-planted oval centerpiece, and refreshed mulched foundation beds with manicured boxwoods — Nature's Call Landscaping

The front entry, driveway, and foundation beds, before and after.

Top-down drone view of the boxwood-planted oval centerpiece at the heart of the Hockessin paver driveway: a perfect oval bed of mulch ringed by a brick paver border holds rows of round mounded boxwoods in a graphic, geometric pattern
The signature: a boxwood-planted oval at the heart of the paver driveway loop, designed to read as a landscape figure from above.
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This is the kind of estate-scale work Kevin and the Nature's Call team do across Hockessin, Greenville, Chadds Ford, Garnet Valley, and throughout northern Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. Every project is designed to the specific property — no two are the same.

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