Project Neighborhood: Duboce Triangle
Date: October 2016
Duration: 1 month
Landscaping Project: Design and build a stone garden landscape and waterfall around two maple trees
We love challenging landscape projects, like moving one-ton boulders up flights of stairs.
Duboce Triangle is a walker’s paradise, according to some of the “rate this neighborhood” sites, but the backyard at 76 Castro Street wasn’t a paradise to the owners. They wanted a complete overhaul, replacing old wood slats and broken tiles. It was challenging, but nothing was more challenging than getting a 1,000 pound boulder up the stairs and into the garden, to become the foundation of a cascading waterfall.
1. backyard before the project begins
2. installation of steel plate which we sent out to get bent into a concave shape by a huge hydraulic press
3. getting this 1000# boulder up the stairs using a power climbing dolly
4. craning boulder in place
5. after the landscape project is over
6. after, showing the recirculating cascade
7. basalt bridge spanning a dry creek
8. night shot, showing landscaping lighting
9. another night shot
10. final night shot of the finished landscape project
