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Photo of a mid-sized traditional full sun backyard brick landscaping in San Francisco for spring.

These cedar planters will eventually weather to the same grey color as the fence behind them. Red and white resin chairs add a playful vibe to this garden. We played on the red and white theme by using river birches, red-stem dogwoods, red and white azaleas, red Knockout roses, and white crape myrtle trees. Read more about this garden on my blog, www.amberfreda.com.

Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional full sun backyard gravel landscaping in San Francisco for spring.

A wood planter with plants is next to a long wood bench that's part of a patio design. The patio is concrete with river rocks used as borders for the various large sections. There's a wood privacy fence that extends behind with another planter with hedge and other plants.

The upper level of this gorgeous Trex deck is the central entertaining and dining space and includes a beautiful concrete fire table and a custom cedar bench that floats over the deck. Light brown custom cedar screen walls provide privacy along the landscaped terrace and compliment the warm hues of the decking. Clean, modern light fixtures are also present in the deck steps, along the deck perimeter, and throughout the landscape making the space well-defined in the evening as well as the daytime.

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This custom contemporary NYC roof garden near Gramercy Park features beautifully stained ipe deck and planters with plantings of evergreens, Japanese maples, bamboo, boxwoods, and ornamental grasses. Read more about our projects on my blog, www.amberfreda.com.

Once a forgotten, moldy putting green—now a healthy vegetable garden. Raised beds were built and filled with organic soil and leaf mold. This garden provides the family with spring through late fall vegetables including lettuces, tomatoes, beets, peas, eggplant, zucchini, asparagus, and a ton of basil and other herbs! Please visit the website for more photos of this project.

This beautiful, all-cedar privacy fence warmly welcomes visitors and keeps the eyes looking around the yard. The arbor extends over the patio to continue the green-black trim to better frame the white house. The HVAC units have been fenced in with a visual screen that lets airflow through - and the panels are removable for maintenance access. We also replaced the old planter boxes on the front windows.

This is an example of a mid-sized contemporary full sun backyard gravel landscaping in San Francisco.

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Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary partial sun backyard gravel landscaping in San Francisco for spring.

This contemporary NYC roof garden on Manhattan's Upper East Side features potted flowering crape myrtle trees, bamboo, evergreens, variegated willow bushes, and birch trees and black fiberglass pots with bamboo roll fencing and a cozy seating area. Read more about our projects on my blog, www.amberfreda.com.

Cedar fence and planter boxes photo by Bronwyn Miller
This is an example of a small eclectic partial sun backyard landscaping in Orange County for summer.

Few materials can match the natural beauty of a newly installed wood deck and fence, which were a dramatic transformation for this small backyard patio. A paraffin treatment brings out the rich colors of ipe, a hardwood with a 30 year life expectancy. We gave the fence a contemporary twist by running the boards horizontally and varying the width, gradually thinning them as they go up. The bluestone pavers add a bit of contrast and visual interest on the patio floor. In order to save space, our clients asked us to build the planters into the fence itself, rather than resting any free-standing planters on the patio floor. This backyard is located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. See more garden design photos at www.amberfreda.com.

This Brooklyn Heights townhouse backyard features a bluestone patio and custom-built ipe wood planter boxes. The quiet, Zen-like backyard is shaded by surrounding buildings, so we picked a shade-tolerant mix of dogwoods, rose-of-sharons, rhododendrons, and Japanese andromedas to plant here. It features a bench carved from a tree trunk. When choosing plants that will do well in shade, I find it's generally helpful to think about the types of plants that do well in a woodland environment. Read more about our projects on my blog at www.amberfreda.com.

This rooftop garden in Manhattan's West Village features custom fencing with built-in lighting, ipe planter boxes, deck tiles, a shade sail, and black fiberglass planters. Container plantings for this NYC terrace design include bamboo, ornamental grasses, hydrangea trees, purple coneflower, weigela, creeping Jenny, and heathers. See more of our projects at www.amberfreda.com.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional partial sun backyard landscaping in Chicago for summer.

John Feldman | Photographer We had fun designing the suite of hardwood components including: planter boxes, decks, furnishings. The IPE and Steel slatted fence extensions to parapet walls provide privacy while allowing views out.

Design ideas for a large farmhouse full sun side yard gravel landscaping in Other for summer.