Landscaping in San Anselmo, CA

San Anselmo sits in the Ross Valley, and a lot of its houses sit above or below the road on ground that falls sharply. Gardens like that are mostly a question of levels: how you get from the door to the flat part, and how you hold everything in between.

Drainage deserves particular attention here. The valley has a real history of water moving through it in a wet winter, so where run-off goes is not a detail to be sorted out at the end — it decides where hard surfaces can go and how retaining is built. We deal with that first, then terrace, then plant, so the garden that gets built is one that survives its first storm.

Call (415) 717-9584 for terracing, steps, planting, or garden maintenance in San Anselmo.