Steve Snedeker’s Landscaping and Gardening Blog

This is one of those geometric pleasers and I show Rene beginning the narrow, curving pathway, then the finished look.  We strove for as much curve as circumstances would allow so the rear area would get a more isolated ambience.  It is so drasticly different from the front in its detail-rich and smaller-spaced effects, while the front is expansive and open.

Here was a challenging lot.  It was pretty much straight uphill but with the above killer view.  Mt. St Helens is a bit to the left but visible on a clear day.  As is Mt. Hood, a gorgeous volcanic mountain, 90 degrees to the right.  Here also is another of those gas fire pits, only this time, no pit!  That burner radiates well and puts out a truckload of heat.  Pretty cool for nights, any season of the year. Or warm.

The simplicity of the landscaping is its merit here.