Eclectic Driveway Garden Ideas and Designs

Patios & Stonework
Patios & Stonework
DC FreemanDC Freeman
A natural stone wall adds charm and function.
Grogan Point Landscape Update
Grogan Point Landscape Update
Sage Pools, Scapes & DesignSage Pools, Scapes & Design
We enhanced the previous attempt to create a dry river bed by expanding its width, oversized boulders and new plantings.
Streetside garden
Streetside garden
Christine Karnofsky Garden Design & ConsultingChristine Karnofsky Garden Design & Consulting
Streetside garden in full bloom creating beautiful buffer betweent traffic and home, street garden, garden front home, sidewalk garden, street screening, large blooming plants,
Bronxville Home renovation
Bronxville Home renovation
LDAW Landscape Architecture, PCLDAW Landscape Architecture, PC
Complete front renovation including new steps,walks,walls,driveway and full landscape. Designed by Bill Einhorn,RLA of F Capparelli Landscape Design who also did the installation
Nova Residence - 2016
Nova Residence - 2016
Sterling Landscape CompanySterling Landscape Company
Flower pots, a rustic milk can and unique directional signage are incorporated into this fun landscape between a split driveway of Basalite pavers.
Decorative driveway
Decorative driveway
Bright Green GardenBright Green Garden
Detail of very discreet slot drain.
Urban Hideaway
Urban Hideaway
K. Dakin Design Inc.K. Dakin Design Inc.
A small courtyard garden in San Francisco. • Creative use of space in the dense, urban fabric of hilly SF. • For the last several years the clients had carved out a make shift courtyard garden at the top of their driveway. It was one of the few flat spaces in their yard where they could sit in the sun and enjoy a cup of coffee. We turned the top of a steep driveway into a courtyard garden. • The actual courtyard design was planned for the maximum dimensions possible to host a dining table and a seating area. The space is conveniently located outside their kitchen and home offices. However we needed to save driveway space for parking the cars and getting in and out. • The design, fabrication and installation team was comprised of people we knew. I was an acquaintance to the clients having met them through good friends. The landscape contractor, Boaz Mor, http://www.boazmor.com/, is their neighbor and someone I worked with before. The metal fabricator is Murray Sandford of Moz Designs, https://mozdesigns.com/, https://www.instagram.com/moz_designs/ . Both contractors have long histories of working in the Bay Area on a variety of complex designs. • The size of this garden belies the complexity of the design. We did not want to remove any of the concrete driveway which was 12” or more in thickness, except for the area where the large planter was going. The driveway sloped in two directions. In order to get a “level”, properly, draining patio, we had to start it at around 21” tall at the outside and end it flush by the garage doors. • The fence is the artful element in the garden. It is made of power-coated aluminum. The panels match the house color; and posts match the house trim. The effect is quiet, blending into the overall property. The panels are dramatic. Each fence panel is a different size with a unique pattern. • The exterior panels that you see from the street are an abstract riff on the seasons of the Persian walnut tree in their front yard. The cut-outs illustrate spring bloom when the walnut leafs out to autumn when the nuts drop to the ground and the squirrels eats them, leaving a mess of shells everywhere. Even the pesky squirrel appears on one of the panels. • The interior panels, lining the entry into the courtyard, are an abstraction of the entire walnut tree. • Although the panel design is made of perforations, the openings are designed to retain privacy when you are inside the courtyard. • There is a large planter on one side of the courtyard, big enough for a tree to soften a harsh expanse of a neighboring wall. Light through the branches cast playful shadows on the wall behind. • The lighting, mounted on the house is a nod to the client’s love of New Orleans gas lights. • The paving is black stone from India, dark enough to absorb the warmth of the sun on a cool, summer San Francisco day.

Eclectic Driveway Garden Ideas and Designs

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