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Wildest Landscape Requests Featured In Wall Street Journal

  Even the Wall Street Journal has recognized that sometimes landscapers are called upon to perform crazy or impossible tasks. In the March 25 article, “Moats, Trampolines and Crazy Pools: The Wildest Requests Pro Landscapers Have Fielded,” by Erica Gerald Mason, landscapers, landscape architects, designers, and builders chimed in on ...

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What’s the wildest landscape request you’ve received? Photo: iStock

 

Even the Wall Street Journal has recognized that sometimes landscapers are called upon to perform crazy or impossible tasks. In the March 25 article, “Moats, Trampolines and Crazy Pools: The Wildest Requests Pro Landscapers Have Fielded,” by Erica Gerald Mason, landscapers, landscape architects, designers, and builders chimed in on their wildest requests. Here are a few (you’ll need a WSJ membership to read the full story):

  • A ride-on train to navigate among 10 types of gardens that had been installed over the past five months on a three-acre property.
  • A moat and drawbridge around a Texas estate.
  • A trampoline on a NYC terrace 16 stories up. No netting or railings.
  • Accommodations for a refurbished World War II Sherman tank. (This request was cancelled when it was determined the Belgian-block driveway “would be destroyed and have to be repaved every time they took the tank out for a spin,” said architect Margie Lavender of Ike Kligerman Barkley.)
  • A miniature golf course — complete with an Eiffel Tower and State of Liberty — that converted to an ice rink in cold months.

What’s the wildest landscaping request you ever received? Let us know!

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