Niche Gardens Landscaping, Inc.

Columns

Courtyard entrance columns with side path-lighting, interconnected with stacked stone kneewall over concrete block and footer base. Wood work provided by subcontractor.

Courtyard entrance columns with side path-lighting, interconnected with stacked stone kneewall over concrete block and footer base. Wood work provided by subcontractor.

Courtyard entrance columns with side path-lighting, interconnected with stacked stone wall around patio perimeter, including patio mounted water fall.

Brick column with Canyon Creek flagstone cap at base of wood pergola.

Dry Creek Beds

Aesthetic yet functional is a natural-looking creek bed. Dry creek beds perform storm water management and erosion control functions as well as hold and distribute water to the gardens around them.

Lower portion of 165 feet long dry creek bed, with a change in slope of approximately 15 feet, constructed with 20 tons of mixed size river rock

Middle portion of 165 feet long dry creek bed showing detail of rock placement and gravel fill. Rain water not only channels from up stream but also from side slope

Fifty feet long dry creek bed, receives water from slope above inlet, flows under a stone slab bridge connecting steps to a pathway through boulders and landscaped yard (also part of the project)

80 foot long bed constructed of multiple sized river rock and boulders through landscaped woodland garden.

Multi-branched entrance with planted islands leading to a 120 foot long creek bed and ending at a subsurface drainage pit and boulder dam. Constructed with multiple sized river rock and gravel.

All dry creek beds need not cover the entire problem area. This fifteen foot dry bed receives water from a more than 100 foot hillside swale. Water then flows into a channel drain at the bottom of the dry bed and is piped underground another twenty feet to a drainage basin at the street.

Indoor Fireplaces and Floors

Stacked ledge stone and Ozark Mountain flagstone hearth and mantel. Details include angled reveal into firebox and stone cut to fit crown molding.

Canyon Creek flagstone used for indoor floors with beige grout and matte sealer finish.

Patios

A 400 square foot dry-laid Canyon Creek flagstone patio with garden path stone filling cracks.

Mortared Canyon Creek Flagstone over existing 1000 square foot concrete pad.

700 square foot dry-set select dimensional PA bluestone patio with granite sand joint filler between stones.

Canyon Creek flagstone patio with Gator Dust filler between flagstones. Brick retaining wall, columns and bench seat with Canyon Creek cap stone. Pergola provided by Living Spaces.

Canyon Creek flagstone patio with Gator Dust filler between flagstones. Brick retaining wall, columns and bench seat with Canyon Creek cap stone. Pergola provided by Living Spaces.

Canyon Creek flagstone patio with gator Dust filler between flagstones. Tennessee stacked stone (medium thickness) bench seat/retaining wall and fire pit with Canyon Creek cap stone. Edging with rubble strip. Canyon Creek stepping stones connect patio with 90 feet long Canyon Creek walkway (see Walkways gallery).

Planters

Multi-tiered, multi-directional planter constructed with concrete footer and base wall, with veneered Tennessee fieldstone and Canyon Creek cap stone.

Multi-tiered, multi-directional planter constructed with concrete footer and base wall, with veneered Tennessee fieldstone and Canyon Creek cap stone.

Single and two-tiered half-round planters against privacy wall constructed with Tennessee stacked stone and flagstone cap.

Interconnected retaining wall and planter, constructed with concrete footer and block base and Tennessee stacked stone, intermittent small garden boulders and Canyon Creek flagstone cap.

Interconnected retaining wall and planter, constructed with concrete footer and block base and Tennessee stacked stone, intermittent small garden boulders and Canyon Creek flagstone cap.

Single and two-tiered half-round planters against privacy wall constructed with Tennessee stacked stone and flagstone cap.

Steps

Natural stone steps in a terraced walkway and steps system, integrated in garden bed.

Mortared select dimensional PA bluestone with sandstone coping; component of dry-laid bluestone patio.

Mortared Canyon Creek flagstone treads over stacked stone risers on existing steps.

Mortared Canyon Creek flagstone treads over stacked stone risers; rebuild of old crumbling stairway.

Natural fieldstone steps integrated with a boulder wall and landscaped area.

Four foot wide stone steps as part of a dry-laid Ozark Mountain flagstone terraced walkway with river sand between stones.

Woodland path leading to natural field stone steps, leading down steep slope through natural stone outcropping.

Woodland path leading to natural field stone steps, leading down steep slope through natural stone outcropping.

Stairway constructed with nineteen, 18x48, Tennessee fieldstone steppers

Structures

Block based fire pit and bench covered with cultured stone to match house and capped with Canyon Creek flagstone. Fire pit is lined with fire brick for safe operation and gravel bottom is open to ground for drainage. New patio slab, by Bundy's Masonry, is also edged with stone.

Tennessee Stacked stone grill surround and bar with slab stone top. Project also included curved bench seat and mortared stone patio.

Tennessee Stacked stone grill surround and bar with slab stone top. Project also included curved bench seat and mortared stone patio.

Walkways

Irregular and intermittently spaced flagstone with slate chip surface and rubble strip edging forms an oriental influenced garden path.

Formal dimensional full color Pennsylvania bluestone path with slate chips as joint filler and rubble strip edging.

Formal dimensional full color Pennsylvania bluestone path with slate chips as joint filler and rubble strip edging.

Mortared Canyon Creek flagstone over existing and widened concrete sidewalk.

Dry-set Ozark Mt. flagstone with sand between stones.

90 feet long Conyon Creek flagstone walkway with Gator Dust filler between stones and rubble edging.

Walls

Rustic-style construction of 55 feet long wall with Cherokee blue stack stone and Cherokee blue flagstone

Close up of 55 feet long wall constructed with Cherokee blue stack stone and capped with Cherokee blue flagstone

Freestanding boulder and Tennessee stack stone wall with flagstone cap.

Tennessee stacked stone over concrete footer and block base retaining wall with large garden boulder cluster as a focal point.

Tennessee stacked stone over concrete footer and block base retaining wall with large garden boulder cluster as a focal point.

Seat wall built into wall and planter system.

Boulder wall, tapering from 4 feet to ground level and approximately 35 feet long (over 12 tons of boulders), serving as a retaining wall over dry-laid flagstone patio.

Water Features

Pondless water features avoid the maintenance of the typical pond but are similar in other respects. An underground water storage basin also contains the pump that feeds the two-stream falls. In this particular pondless water feature*, water is provided via a rainwater catchment system, which captures water from a downspout located on the house and routed to the storage basin.

Waterfall built upon existing patio, incorporated into stacked stone wall and column system built around patio for a courtyard effect.

Pondless water feature*.

Pondless water feature.