The client wanted this Dodonea in Pacific Heights to be hedged by hand, not with sheers. This would give it a softer edge. She also wanted her hedge to have steps that would coincide with the steps in the garden. Check out the result.

Kent, my trusty groundsman, proved himself to be the best groundsman ever today. One of the biggest challenges on this site was to navigate the extensive garden. We didn’t want to damage any of the beautiful flowers. Kent made sure that nothing in the garden was damaged and that we left the area looking just as pretty as when we had found it. With all those little snips there was quite a lot of cleanup. Somehow he was able to have just about everything back in order by the time I was finished pruning.

This garden was not street level. There were 30 stairs between the garden and the truck where we had haul all debris. The next day Kent was quite sore from having to walk up and down three flights of stairs all day. What a trooper!