by Scott Bradley | May 8, 2018 | Drainage, Featured Gardens, Gardens, Masonry and Stonescaping, Patios and Walkways, Petaluma Garden Design, The Landscape Process, Water Features
This newer subdivision home was set on a hillside in west Petaluma, and had only minimal front yard landscaping. The front yard was small and flat, but the backyard was a steep slope falling away from the house at more than forty five degrees, and called for a...
by Scott Bradley | Oct 24, 2017 | Featured Gardens, Gardens, Low Voltage Lighting, Masonry and Stonescaping, Patios and Walkways, Petaluma Landscaper, Water Features, Wood Structures
On the east side of Petaluma, this project with no pre-existing landscaping, involved new construction for Details Landscape Art, a Petaluma landscape contractor. The home sits on a corner, with a three-sided front yard wrapping around from north to west. The front or...
by Scott Bradley | Oct 10, 2017 | Featured Gardens, Gardens, Low Voltage Lighting, Masonry and Stonescaping, Patios and Walkways, Penngrove Landscape Contractor, Water Features, Wood Structures
Covered with scrub oak, and redwood and pine seedlings, this one-acre property with dozens of mature redwood trees in the background, sat on three different elevations. One of the challenges for Details Landscape Art, a Penngrove landscape contractor, was to...
by Scott Bradley | Sep 12, 2017 | Featured Gardens, Gardens, Low Voltage Lighting, Masonry and Stonescaping, Patios and Walkways, Petaluma Landscaper, Water Features, Wood Structures
Every so often, Details Landscape Art falls into a unique project with a very special existing feature. The lush wooded open space behind this West Petaluma property provided an impossibly beautiful backdrop for this long narrow backyard. The challenging part of the...
by Scott Bradley | Aug 15, 2017 | Featured Gardens, Gardens, Masonry and Stonescaping, Patios and Walkways, Santa Rosa Landscape Contractor, Water Features
This design-build project began as a moonscape. Covered with rock, half buried giant boulders the size of Volkswagens and littered with wild scrubby weeds, this was easily the ugliest and most challenging project to date for Details Landscape Art, a Fountaingrove...
by Scott Bradley | Jun 16, 2015 | Gardens, Petaluma Landscape Design, Water Features
One of the most challenging types of projects encountered by Details Landscape Art is hillside landscaping. Planting on a hillside was addressed in a previous blog, but when the homeowner wants to have the slope terraced or provide flat areas, other issues must be...