Projects
Built work.
Twelve gardens from the last four years, each with its lot size, scope, weeks on site and what it cost. Names are the streets they sit on. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.
The rail
Twelve lots, at a glance.
Swipe the row. Each card jumps to its details below.
The details
Lot, scope, weeks, and the number.
- Blossom Hill Terrace
A sloped back yard cut into two terraces. Board formed concrete, a gas fire bowl and three mature olives moved from the front.
- Kennedy Road Pool
Limestone coping and deck around an existing pool, replanted with olives, lavender and deer grass. Pool shell by a licensed partner.
- Saratoga Oaks Kitchen
A cedar pergola under two valley oaks, a limestone counter with a grill and sink, and a table for twelve. Gas and power run under the terrace.
- Monte Sereno Steps
Eleven feet of grade change handled with wide concrete steps and thyme in the joints. A cedar gate at the top, manzanita on the slope.
- Almaden Dry Garden
A front lawn replaced with agave, Cleveland sage and deer grass on a decomposed granite path. Water use down 41 percent in year two.
- Shannon Road Agaves
A narrow side yard turned into a gravel garden of agaves and grasses, each one uplit. The view from the kitchen window at night was the brief.
- Los Altos Courtyard
An entry courtyard in porcelain pavers with a single Japanese maple and fourteen brass path lights. Small lot, every inch used.
- Overlook Drive
The whole yard: two terraces, an outdoor kitchen, a fire feature, a pool surround and 3,000 square feet of planting. Our largest build to date.
- Quito Road Meadow
A back lawn turned into a native meadow of grasses and wildflowers on a weather-based drip system. Mowed once a year, in February.
- Winchester Pergola
A west facing patio that was unusable after three in the afternoon. A deep cedar pergola and a small kitchen fixed it.
- Hicks Road Hillside
A steep lot with two engineered retaining walls, concrete steps and a slope planted in manzanita and ceanothus for erosion control.
- Glen Una Pool Garden
A new pool surround in limestone with a lavender hedge on the long side and olives at each end. Lighting on a dimmer for late swims.
Across the twelve
- Median lot
- 8,000 sq ft
- Median build
- 10 weeks
- Median cost
- $140,000
- Still on care plans
- 10 of 12
Every one of these clients will talk to you. Ask on the site walk and we will put you in touch with the one whose yard is most like yours.