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 This garden was designed for a three unit building in Central San Francisco. The main garden layout is based on an Italianate plan: a simple rectangle with high hedges that create a walled interior. Next to the building are three small interconnected decks at different elevations that may be used either independently or as a circulation “flow.” Note to Urban Planners: After installing this garden (my own), I went on to do my next door neighbors’ (see, An Herb Garden in the City). Within a few years, almost every one of the previously vacant backlots had sprouted gardens, with the added benefit of a rich and riotous population of birds that had been totally absent when we first moved into this block. Nature may not like a stone wall, but song
birds surely do love hedges. |
Landscape designation and installation Chris Jacobson  |
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