Adrienne Link Newton
This is an example of a mid-sized rustic partial sun hillside stone retaining wall landscape in San Francisco.

Standing seam low slope metal roofing contrasting with wood and cement plaster finish. Garage door admits light both day and night.
Inspiration for a large modern multicolored one-story mixed siding exterior home remodel in San Francisco with a shed roof

Photo © Jude Parkinson-Morgan
Design ideas for a mid-sized transitional partial sun front yard concrete paver garden path in San Francisco.

This is an example of a mid-sized mediterranean drought-tolerant and partial sun hillside brick garden path in Los Angeles.

Inspiration for a huge traditional full sun hillside stone formal garden in San Diego for summer.

This pool was constructed with boulders found on site. It is next to a large ledge outcrop and is heavily planted with flowering shrubs and perennials. It features a waterfall and a grotto with seats under the waterfall. The clients requested a pool that appeared to have occurred naturally in the forest and they just built their house next to it.

This pool was constructed with boulders found on site. It is next to a large ledge outcrop and is heavily planted with flowering shrubs and perennials. It features a waterfall and a grotto with seats under the waterfall. The clients requested a pool that appeared to have occurred naturally in the forest and they just built their house next to it.

This pool was constructed with boulders found on site. It is next to a large ledge outcrop and is heavily planted with flowering shrubs and perennials. It features a waterfall and a grotto with seats under the waterfall. The clients requested a pool that appeared to have occurred naturally in the forest and they just built their house next to it.

Inspiration for a huge traditional full sun hillside stone formal garden in San Diego for summer.

Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional drought-tolerant and partial sun hillside brick garden path in Los Angeles.

Design ideas for a mid-sized mediterranean drought-tolerant and partial sun hillside brick garden path in Los Angeles.

One step up is a lounging area, perfect for a fire pit and comfortable furniture.
Photo of a small contemporary partial sun backyard stone landscaping in DC Metro.

Inspiration for a mid-sized mediterranean drought-tolerant and partial sun hillside brick garden path in Los Angeles.

These natural stone steps connect the woodland garden with the wee bit of lawn along the house.
Design ideas for a rustic landscaping in New York.

The lower patio level is angled into the corner to maximize the use of space.
Design ideas for a small contemporary partial sun backyard stone landscaping in DC Metro.

Sublime Garden Design
Inspiration for a hillside gravel garden path in Seattle.

Steve Lerum
This is an example of a huge contemporary full sun hillside formal garden in Los Angeles with decking.

This was a Illinois Landscape Contractors Excellence in Landscape Awards, Gold Award wining project in 2008. This home was also featured on the Glen Ellyn Garden walk.

For this contemporary, Japanese-style residence sitting high on a hill in southern Vermont, JMMDS created a simple, clean-lined design using stone pavers, retaining walls, and geometric beds to define the area around the house. The house is composed of two long offset barn buildings with eaves that are joined in the middle around an exterior stone courtyard. JMMDS’s design holds up the steep surrounding slopes with a long stone retaining wall bordering a rectangular quartzite terrace with a beautiful view out to the surrounding landscape. The wall encloses a level grass shelf around the house; outside the wall, less manicured turf drops away quickly down the slope. Ledges on the hillside that parallels the house are exposed as an asset. On the entry side of the house, JMMDS designed a wall that retains the slope between garage and house, accessed by a set of broad stone steps and linear pavers that take a visitor straight to the front door. Plantings in geometric beds surround more quartzite pavers that form a terrace for the guest wing of the house. The drip space under the eaves is filled with black washed river stone. Photo: Seamus Flynn Photography