We made a video this winter about one of our favorite projects from last year, a garden we designed and built in Fort Greene. We put in a bluestone patio, pond with waterfall, stone wall and then planted the whole thing. We also installed landscape lighting and a drip irrigation system. Check it out on our new YouTube channel and feel free to share it.
This is a full backyard renovation that we recently did in Fort Greene. Our client came to us with the idea of a U-shaped retaining wall with a water feature and a large enough patio space to entertain plenty of guests. Here are some pics of how it came out. Below you will find the before shot.
And here is the after...
Here is the outline of the waterfeature in-progress.
During the renovations, the homeowner found this ornate, iron fireplace plate and wanted to incorporate it into the design somehow...
So we decided to make it the face of the weeping wall waterfeature we installed, pictured below.
And here are a few more pics just for fun. The site had three existing River Birch trees and a Japanese "Bloodgood Maple" that the homeowner wanted to keep, so they acted as the backbone of the garden as we worked around them and incorporated them into our design. We also installed a number of drought-tolerant and native species including an Eastern Redbud.
Here is a sneak peak of a cedar fence we are currently doing for a design/build project in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Before we got there the backyard was truely wild, with a large mosquito population that was calling it home (the majority of them have since relocated). For this project we are building a custom red cedar fence, recycled bluestone patio and installing an almost fully native landscape (the only thing that will not be native is a Japanese "Bloodgood" Maple, which is a fully adaptive tree for the New York City area. Keep you posted on the end result soon...
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