Landscape design and installation Chris Jacobson, GardenArt
This is the second version of this Noe Valley garden designed by Chris Jacobson. The new owners were classical musicians and requested a spa for therapeutic after-concert soaks. The lower level of the garden was left “as was,” with a small deck and built-in seating near the kitchen, and pots of herbs on stone plinths along the elevated walkway. Plantings include an upright rosemary hedge, a carefully pruned dwarf apple tree and cutting roses behind a ball-pruned boxwood hedge. The upper sun terrace became the site of the spa, and the Victorian style screen and gate were adapted from an existing historic building in the neighborhood.