Shades of Green Landscape Architecture

City Garden

City Garden A Stone patio with sleek metal edging steps out and down into the leafy shade of this San Francisco garden, blending indoor and outdoor living. Concrete stairs and pavers set amid the verdant lawn lead to a seating area around a fire place.  The house’s rooftop terrace floats above the city on wooden pavers. […]

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Mid-Century Garden

Mid-Century Garden Located on a residential hillside, the Mid-Century Garden overlooks the bay. The landscape design is a beautiful composition of refined materials and planting that complements the mid-century architecture and is sensitive to the ecological, functional, and aesthetic needs of the client. The front hillside planting was overhauled with native sages, grasses, and creeping

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Eichler Living

Eichler Living A young family had just bought their Eichler and had limited funds, but they really wanted a garden. What they lacked for funding, they made up for in guts and energy. We designed the garden for them, and over the next couple of years they built it themselves  They laid pavers, poured concrete

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Jewel Box Garden

Jewel Box Garden Through thoughtful design, this overgrown hillside was transformed into a lovely and opulent “jewel box” garden. To improve the connection between the outdoor space and house, the lower yard was raised and the entire space was divided into an upper terrace and lower garden.  Colorful plants, playful paving, custom fire and water

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