Trained as a landscape gardener in Europe, he built a successful career designing and installing gardens and grounds for private and public clients across the United States.
Frederick Law Olmsted brought Ulrich in to assist with landscape design at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
[1] In Monterey, California, developer Charles Crocker hired Ulrich in 1881 as landscape superintendent at the Hotel Del Monte, now the Naval Postgraduate School.
Leland Stanford subsequently hired Ulrich to create a similar garden at the Stanford estate; additional desert gardens were installed elsewhere in California, including one on the grounds of what is now Sunset Magazine's headquarters.
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