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Borst Landscape & Design McCabe���s Nursery Basnight Land and Lawn used 450 bullet pavers, 15 yards of mulch, 1,500 square feet of geo-grid, 72 28-ounce tubes of glue, and 2,640 square feet of woven stabilization fabric (300-pound tensile strength). They laid in more than 75 yards of class V/road base, 60 yards of 1-inch angled rock for base and drainage behind the wall, 400 feet of 4-inch perforated drain tile, 3,000 square feet of erosion control blanket and 1,500 square yards of hydroseeding. Top, Left: Borst craftsmen installed a series of stepped colonial-style bluestone walls to deal with the sloping property, and then installed vinyl picket fencing. They installed an additional bluestone wall to help retain the slope. Top, Right: This McCabe's Nursery & Landscape project included installation of concrete block with stucco walls, a Realm This Realm gate project in Tucson, Arizona, takes originality to a whole new level. small patio on the center terrace, and colored and stamped concrete staircases on either side of the small patio. Overall, As described by the contractor, "(It���s) an aggressive industrial aesthetic (which) added this project took five workers five weeks to complete. The safety to a highly usable yard inside." A residential project within a predominately biggest challenge was creating a functional, useable space commercial neighborhood, the gate took one week to fabricate and one day to install. on the steep slope of the rear hillside. The major challenge, according to Realm, was having the client sign off on an additional waiver of liability due to the extreme nature of the materials used. Bottom: This project took a four-man crew three months to Sunrise Landscape + Design Sunrise Landscape + Design was contracted by St. Anne���s Episcopal Church in Reston, Virginia, to create a Memorial Garden on a sloped hill. The client had a general concept of what they were looking for, but left the exact design, size, scope and product choices up to the Sunrise team. The company specified Techo-Bloc Monumental segmental retaining wall product to make the transition complete, for a total of 2,000 man-hours. Workers used 60 pallets of Eagle Bay Highland 6-inch wall block, wall caps and column kits on the property walls; they also used 30 yards of concrete under the walls and pavers, 15 pallets of pavers, and an additional 20 pallets of freestanding wall block to create the seat walls separating the pool deck and gardens. February 2013 29