Very big boxes for hillside flowers, vegetables

Sunset, August, 1987

Very big boxes for hillside flowers, vegetables

Resembling giant steps, these elevatedplanters put flat planting areas along the side of a lot that slopes down and away from this house in hilly Portland. The modules (some 6 feet square, some 6 by 12) decline in height from 7 to 2 feet as they march down the hillside.

Planter walls are pressure-treated 6-by-6sstacked (and bolted) log-cabin style with intersecting ends alternately lapped. To break up the mass of the sides, 1-by-2s cover horizontal and vertical seams. Pairs of 1-by-4s cap the corners to further dress up the beefy structures, and 6-by-8s frame the top of each planter.

Design was by landscape architect JohnH. Herbst, Jr., of Lake Oswego, Oregon, for Dan Gleason and Wendy Ware.

Photo: On neighbor's side (above), planters serve as fence, stepping in and out, up and down. On house side (below), they lie low, put vegetable and flower gardens in easy reach

COPYRIGHT 1987 Sunset Publishing Corp.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
 

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