Wandsnider Landscape Architects

12/15/2025

Our last finished project of the season. This one was on Nagawicka Lake in Delafield, and these photos only show a portion of renovation. Here we rebuilt the existing concrete wall. Lannon stone was installed for the top layer of the wall and for the step risers. Unilock Umbriano capped the wall and was also used for the treads. Other features included salvaged Lannon stone steps built into the retaining wall to serve as benches. Black fractured boulders formed the fire pit, surrounded by bluestone steppers and crushed gravel. A wonderful, but challenging project for some wonderful, easy-going clients!

12/09/2025

Another River Hills client, another Japanese Garden. Complete with Tea House, Torii gate, red bridge, crushed gravel walkways with stone and bluestone edging, dry stream beds, and A LOT of specialty boulders.

10/14/2025

Here are some photos of the Japanese Garden we have been installing for the last 2 years.

09/23/2025

These clients wanted more patio room and an updated outdoor space, so this is what we did...
- Added Unilock Beacon Hill pavers on both sides of the existing patio.
- Restored the original patio by pressure-washing the pavers, adding polymer sand to the joints and sealing the pavers.
- Installed Lannon cobbles around planting beds with newly planted trees and shrubs.
- Added bluestone steppers to the entrance of the lawn area.
- Replaced the concrete steps to the house with a mortared Bluestone landing.

08/22/2025

BEFORE and AFTER...These new clients installed a new patio door and needed a new patio to go with it, and this is the result. Details include a mortared bluestone stoop, Unilock Richcliff pavers with an Arizona flagstone inset, and granite cobbles for a border.

07/29/2025

Sometimes it's the fun, smaller jobs, like this one we did in Milwaukee, that yield the best results.

Additions include a raised planter box, pavers around the existing deck, cobble edging, decorative gravel and rocks, retaining wall next to driveway port and a lot of colorful trees, shrubs and perennials.

07/15/2025

06/27/2025

Steps, walls, outcropping, stream bed, falls, pond, patio and plants. A lot went into this project and it took a while to do, but the end result is so rewarding and beautiful!

06/18/2025

June is Invasive Species Action Month in Wisconsin. There are many invasive plants that are look-a-likes with natives. This blog helps you correctly identify 6 of them.

Invasives And Imposters: Native Look-Alikes To Know Posted on June 3, 2025June 12, 2025 by akabelowsky By Wisconsin DNR With 145 invasive plants regulated under Wisconsin’s Invasive Species Rule NR40, it can be challenging to identify some of these plants while out in the woods. The task can be fu...

05/21/2025

Another addition to the Japanese Garden in progress. This is a pagoda that we designed, constructed and painted here at our shop. At about 18' tall, it is in 4 pieces. Soon, we will take it down, and piece by piece, transport it carefully to our client's yard.

04/23/2025

We are in the process of creating a Japanese Garden for a client. One of the features is a "Moat". Here is a couple pictures of the work in progress and one of the final product.

11/20/2024

These before and after photos show how we salvaged existing brick pavers and integrated them with bluestone to create a new patio.