This easy L.A. style modern lawn replacing garden comes with colorful accents from Bougainvillea, Mexican Bird of Paradise, Olive and Blue Agave this mixed succulent-native garden features. In full-size heat-loving fruit trees like pomegranate and lawn round out the mix.
Styling Tips
Mix with modern hardscaping elements and rock mulch - just like the 18-month-old San Fernando Valley Casita garden shown in the pics below - to set off this plant pack’s lush architecture. That architecture is only going to get better with age as the tree’s fill out to make the overstory shape look elegant (it's in it's awkward teenage shrubby sage rn). Who needs a lawn when you can have a garden like this at a fraction of the water needs?
Along the edges...
Mix in Modern Hardscape Elements...
Create a Show Stopping Entry...
Leaving the view open to subtle peaks of materials that contrast with one another in color and form helps draw the eye to your front door. This is great Feng Shui for welcoming good energy flow into your life. Having some protection and overlap of plants however, with the view to it at an angle, also helps add a sense of protection. And elegance of the entry experience. It's hard to beat blue and gold foliage tones of various hues contrasted against a minimalist black and white color palette. Especially when their's hot pops of color to keep it from getting overly redundant.
Interested in getting the look for your home?
This garden is available in a preplanned package for you to install. All plants are California Grown. And all plans are suburban front yard ready. Double recommended plant spacing to maximize architecture.
