It has been a busy year in landscape construction!

Here are some of the projects I have taken on in 2025 - some large, some small.

Sorry I haven't posted anything for quite a while. It's hard maintaining a blogging regiment when my energies are going toward the hard work of building and planning landscape construction projects. So just to illustrate, these are some of the highlights from this year to date in the Seattle area...

I started the year refurbishing the flagstone paths and steps on a huge, steep waterfront property in the Windermere neighborhood (1800 sq ft of adjusting, leveling and applying polymeric sand).

But right after that I was hired to build this long paver driveway with a cedar fence on the back side of Capitol Hill near the Arboretum. Roughly 800 sq ft of Belgard Holland Pavers.

The fence was done in "board & batten" style, all tight-knot cedar on galvanized post brackets.

After that, I spoke with a couple in Hawthorne Hills who have a long, steep embankment in their back yard. Though they want to someday build rock terraces for planting, they chose to go with just putting in rock stairs to allow safe access to the bottom of the property. These are called Huckleberry Risers which are random rough slabs sold in bulk. They are overlapped and firmly burrowed into the hillside. A total of 36 stone steps weighing 200-300 lbs each.

Next I got a request from a repeat customer for whom I built a brick/stone entryway and fence last summer. This time they wanted to put a full landscape in their front parking strip in Admiral, West Seattle. We worked with the Seattle Building Department to comply with current guidelines, and I drew up plans for both the placement of two stone raised bed planters and plants that would fill the space without growing too tall. This should fill in quite nicely over the next year or two, and the customer will be planting the raised beds with herbs and flowers.

And most recently, I completed a timber-and-stucco fence/wall off an alleyway in North Seattle. The house has an old-world European style (along with a matching MIL cabin in the back yard) and I suggested this idea as a way to match the look of it all with the fence. 6x6 juniper timbers were used for posts and the panels were done in stucco-coated cement board panels. It's built like a tank and has a nice warm feel.

Anyway, that's been my life the past 6 months or so! It's been a lovely summer and I look forward to what comes next. There is still room for more projects in the schedule this year, so don't hesitate to write or call with your inquiries. mark@shepherdstoneworks.com