Creating Unconventional Accents
We love it when a customer says in an aside comment "I know it’s crazy, but I have always want to have a….(fill in your unusual idea)."
Christie says, “ You can tell me – it’s OK!”
Take a look-
We created a “Gong “made of copper, steel and redwood. It serves to block a neighbors’ play swing in back as well as be a metal accent in a Japanese garden with lots of stone and water. A backyard landscape design that aids with privacy.
This brick, slate and river stone terrace in this deep fan garden was made to look like it survived the Civil War and was repaired over the decades. With the client’s research and vision, we created this multi stoned 2 level terrace where there was once a cement pad and random plantings. Not shown is a small pergola off the garage and full plantings of fatsia, ferns and smaller perennials.
The ‘yellow brick road’ swirled terrace made of rose and blue tumbled stone was a vision the client had. We built the dry laid terrace so that holes were available to plant thyme randomly in the swirls. Passersby saw the colorful shape as they walked by the corner lot in the fan. The client looked down on it from her upper porch. It was so beautiful after we made it, I doubt anyone will want to cover it up with chairs and a table.
Luck Stone wanted something different, so we used weather face thin stone to build this sphere in Andrew Goldsworthy style. Boulders from Nevada flank the Chinese stone, dry laid terrace.
The wooden fence/pergola serves to block our client from the neighbor’s high porch next door. It blends in terrifically with the Japanese berm, Asian bluestone terrace and plantings we installed. It was also affordable. This client got lots of bang for her buck. An effective backyard landscape design.
We’ve made a home for a dragon purchased in New York City. The client fell in love with him when he saw it. After he shipped it home and uncrated it, he remarked to himself. “Now what do I do?” We posed the dragon over a small fountain we made to catch his fiery stream of water. The hillside backs up his protective, not aggressive pose. Ferns, mundo grass and smaller tidier plants are installed the closer you get to the house. Behind him bamboo, mahonia and ivy grow in a wilder environment. A visitor that enters the house from the front., looks through the house and the back french doors to the dragon. As a focal point he is very powerful in this backyard landscape design.
