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Properly Prepped Pathway Permits Perfect Pauses & Perspiration
Mountain Cabin Spatial Challenges Solved!
House on a Hill
An Artist and her Front Yard
Creating privacy and dimension for a hot tub & fire pit in a front yard.
A Long Lap Around The Yard
A Modest Sized Patio to take in the Surrounds
Elegant Ellipse: Existing diagonal flagstone walkway meets new patio, fire pit
Naturally, a Playground Upgrade: Phase 1
New Contemporary Home Construction with Front Patio for Gathering
Party in the Front..
Pulling a Little Switzerland Cabin Out of the Weeds and Into Usefulness
Why Mow This Steep Hillside?
QUONSET RE-HUT. From a metal shop, to abandonment, to My House.
Boulder Creek Bright
Midcentury Modern Eichler Home Makeover
Container Heaven
Nostalgic Return to a Patio I Designed in San Francisco
Instant Forest in Wisconsin
Santa Cruz Mountain Elevation
Pacific Grove Coastal Refuge
Iris Unlimited- copper fabrication by Pierre Riche Art
Seattle Casual
San Lorenzo Valley Hillside, Tamed
The Lawnless Frontier
San Benito County Farmhouse
Front Yard Privacy. Wave at the neighbors walking by.
Front Yard Pond, and a Bench Made From a Sidewalk
Steep Hillside = Quickest Path to the Beach!
A Ben Lomond Native Plant Library
Maximizing Santa Cruz Real Estate
Post-Surf Outdoor Shower Water Feeds Plants
Front Fence, Repurposed
Why Are So Many Front Yards Wasted?
Santa Cruz West Side Back Yard Haven
Felton Welcome Sign
Worth a Look
Front Yard Fecundity
Santa Cruz Mountain Shade
Aptos Community Garden
T e r r a r i u m s
Capitola Beach Village Blooms
Black Mountain Wildness Taming for a Patio Retainer and a Path Down to the Creek
Happy Holidays!
Appalachian Tea House, Inkberry Studio, and Tree Kettle.
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Steps Cut into the Clay Hillside
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Keyhole Garden
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'Urbanite' Seatwall and Slate Patio with Treillis and Kiwis
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Courtyard with Repurposed Fence Trellis
Swales (ditches) on contour (at the same elevation). Water captured in the swale does not run out of the lower side- because they are level. Irrigation water seeps into the roots growing into the berms downhill of the swales.
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Swales on Contour Allow Slow and Thorough Soaking
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Hillside Becomes Seatwall and Patio
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Wild Ginger Covering the Ground with Fern
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Victorian Garden for a San Francisco Victorian Home
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Garden Gate in San Francisco
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Garden Gate in Corten Steel
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Japanese Tea Gate by Masao Sato
Japanese garden gate by master builder, Japanese-born Masao Sato.
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Japanese Tea Gate by Masao Sato
See project entitled "The Lawnless Frontier".
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Driftwood Artifact and Meadow Plantings, Front Yard
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Front Yard Casual
This is "urbanite." Busted up concrete sidewalk pieces were dyed and repurposed as a back yard patio.
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'Urbanite' Recycled Concrete Patio
I had the tiniest bit of initial input for this entry into the 2004 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. The real credit goes to Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping and Susan Wyche, however, for their months of work to pull off this award-winning project.
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2004 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
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Before the Sweeping
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Outdoor Classroom Design
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Outdoor Classroom Design
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Process can be pretty, Process can be ugly
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Outdoor Classroom Design
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