Many Sacramento homeowners find a lot of benefit of having a landscape garden artist design their outdoor areas for them.  While the region boasts a vast array of large public lakes, ponds and parks, it is particularly enjoyable to come home and sit by one’s very own koi or water garden pond.

Landscape gardener Raphael Steinberg has been creating and maintaining a wide array of gardens for over two decades. He began his firm — Raphael Steinberg Landscaping — in 2000 in Rishon LeTzion, Israel with a 500 NIS loan from his family.  Since then he has built up the company and today is well-known in the community among the residential neighbors as well as local municipalities and some offices.

Over the years Steinberg has developed a reputation for the design quality of his garden pathways and ponds.  He is often asked to counsel his clients on shrubbery and wildlife as well but finds his more natural inclination is toward the water aspects. “I always loved water and the outdoors, so when I started in the gardening business, I found that I was more drawn to installing pond. Thankfully both my private clients and public corporations were drawn to the idea too. It seems that there is something very calming about the sound of running water and I have, over time, managed to really beautify each of the ponds I landscape, resulting in the creation of a very comfortable and natural environment.”

During the country’s lockdown where people are being forced to stay home, Steinberg has found that he has been getting many more calls from new clients as well as existing ones to do more work.  Clients that only ever wanted basic maintenance are now requesting his creative eye and other people who have just maybe had planter boxes on their balconies are looking into making a green outdoor area to eliminate some of the claustrophobia the lockdown has generated.