Photo of a traditional full sun brick formal garden in San Francisco.

This is what you’ll see if you step through the back door of my 100-year-old home. The back yard is terraced by a large raised planter that spans the width of the lots for both the main house and the guest house. The raised bed is planted from end to end with upright growing rosemary, which provides a beautiful uninterrupted horizontal line of gorgeous green year round. Three Italian cypress trees are also in the planter and offer a nice vertical transition between the two levels. A stone seating bench integrated into the wall of the raised planting bed creates lots of great seating for outdoor entertaining. Among other details, a beautiful yucca plant in Impruneta terra cotta urn with handles sits on the stone bench. I hope you’re enjoying these photos that celebrate my home’s centennial year.

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Designed by: Marco Romani, Landscape Architect
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Designed by: Marco Romani, Landscape Architect
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Waterfront dining al fresco on this raised stone terrace.
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A covered terrace can be seen on the right side of the photo, and a west-facing deck on the left.
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Photo: Ken Tomita
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Designed by: Marco Romani, Landscape Architect
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The armillary garden just beyond the bluestone terrace.
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Stephen Mercer, Terry Mercer
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This Spanish home has an interior courtyard that is perfect for alfresco dining. Leftover tile from a bath project was used to create an outdoor mural on a large outside wall.

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Raised cedar beds along the Sakonnet River, surrounded by in-ground planting beds, enclosed by a perennial border. A blueberry hedge buffers coastal breezes, while a gravel sitting area offers water views from within the garden. Jeremy Brodeur

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Trex deck featuring Trex Elevations and Trex Transcend in Spiced Rum and Vintage Lantern.
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