Steve Snedeker’s Landscaping and Gardening Blog

Here’s another look at an “old friend”, a year later or so.  The clients here were delighted with their water feature and landscaping and spend tons of time out in it. It’s lit up, as well, with lots of small details featured in a busy, park-like setting.  They like entertaining and have the killer patio and the special little gas fire pit we installed, in those rocks, to keep the chill off.

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. 

We built this place a while back, in Reno. Jeff and Denise were totally wonderful co workers and contributed many things, including tangible things as in machinery. LOL, it looked like a German coal mine back there for while, with his ability to score on the machines he sold for a living. They wanted the long creek a part of which is shown here. The creek is actually over 160′ long, with twists and turns and pools. They had a huge steep slope way back in their yard and the creek served to tie things together. As usual in Reno, things can take some time to develop, yet the plants and overall effects here worked out well in a short period of time.