Iconic Ickler House with Terraced Garden

Design constraints of the Garden.

A unique Eichler home perched on an awkward, steep lot in Twin Peaks. Not only was the site protected as a historical building. This garden had also been neglected for approximately 20 years and self-sown non-native invasive trees and weeds had the garden in a chokehold. The garden was so overgrown we had to hire specialist contractors to clear the steep site save for a handful of salvageable plants. Once we removed the invasive plants it created an immediate lack of privacy. We solved this by planting fast-growing screening shrubs later to be succeeded by twenty seven Japanese maple trees.