More Installations

A narrow driveway in Escondido, planted in oak woodland, lends color and texture while providing a visual screen from the neighbor.

This island chaparral demonstrates the lushness of California natives. Creating an evergreen backbone to a native garden keeps it looking fresh and green all year while minimizing maintenance.

A flagstone path casually winds through this Escondido woodland garden, overlooking a year-round stream.

Spiraling stone staircases were constructed to give this owner access to a year-round stream on the property.

Varying types of creeping thyme make a fragrant groundcover between flagstones. It is low growing and undemanding.

Let's go back to the days before weeds! All the weeds were replaced with flowering native perennials for summer color in this interpretation of a streamside woodland restoration, complete with a bridge.

I like whimsical, playful touches in the garden. Ah, to be serenaded by Mariachi frogs!

The entry to this Poway home passes over a stream and pond surrounded by native woodland plants.

This is a close up of the water feature in the entry.

A stone pathway planted in thyme leads to a vegetable garden and a chaparral restoration area in Poway.

This is a coastal sage scrub and chaparral restoration over a leach-field.

We placed these giant boulders with a huge excavator, creating terraces for a citrus and Mediterranean garden. We operate all types of machinery.

Yes, we even do lawns. We model them ecologically as a fresh-water marsh and surround them with appropriate plants, often unirrigated.

This is a mountain chaparral garden. It is designed after something one might see in Julian or Idyllwild with lots of manzanita and wild lilac.

A boardwalk winds past redwoods towards a childrens play area. Note the use of fire-resistant Baccharis 'Pigeon Point' on the slope.

Another view of the back slope and boardwalk, as seen from the middle of the freshwater marsh, also known as a lawn.

The trees and shrubs around this backyard pool in Poway are less than 5 years old.

Bigfoot kicking back in a wooded sitting area, soon to be the site of a gazebo.

This overall view from the back slope highlights the childrens play area on the right.

With no soil amendments or fertilizer, this sub-graded decomposed granite pad was transformed into a woodland garden in less than 5 years from one gallon plants.

A statue depicting a young Indian girl walking out of the woods with an extinct Arizona parrot on her hand is a stunning feature in this courtyard garden.

An inviting decomposed granite path winds its way through this native Poway garden.