Landscape Architecture Projects

Some examples of work we have done...

This garden entrance to a Reno home features ornamental grasses and a Bominite pathway. Flowering trees and shrubs provide accents. The ornamental grasses add a sense of scale, so that the visitor walks not only between them but "through" them. Flowers set off the beginning of the pathway.

A wooden bench invites the visitor to walk through the garden to the front door of the house and to spend some time.

This is the National Automobile Museum in downtown Reno, housing many of the classic cars collected and restored by Bill Harrah. We're pleased to have designed the plantings around the museum. Here at the entrance, you'll find trees, shrubs, and ornamental grasses, mixed with boulders and bark. Around the perimeter of the buildings you'll see more of a Great Basin theme, with sage and other xeriscape plantings. Click on the image to see a full-size picture (332x265 pixels).

We like to add architecture and lighting to enhance the value of a garden at night. At this home, we installed low intensity lights beside the ground level deck. At night, the light not only provides a safer walking surface, it also illuminates the flowers growing beside it in the rock garden. We like to let our clients test various kinds of light for a while before choosing the style to be installed. Click on the image to see a full-size picture (247x343 pixels).

For the back yard of this southwest Reno home, we designed a low deck, with steps down to a path of decomposed granite. The path, lined by river rocks (which are plentiful in Reno), leads one through a Great Basin theme xeriscape garden. You can see wildflowers scattered among the desert shrubs, particularly around the deck. Click on the image to see a full-size picture (299x186 pixels).