frontyard makeovers
BEFORE & AFTERS
After years of building small unsightly test plantings, we are SO happy to see these designed-for-drought gardens do their thing in California summer. After a few months of regular deep watering to facilitate root establishment, these low-water plants are thriving on drip irrigation once a week in Los Angeles county summer.
low-water garden after pix
Sweet, succulent success
5-months after install. Succulents, cactus and low-water plants in bright colors. Thriving on summer water 1x week in L.A. County.
frontyard entry before
grey gravel vibes
This yard was empty when the new owners moved in. The gravel was poorly lined and fast becoming a weeding nightmare...and a heat trap.
Pasadena, California
it was their first yard...
Roshin & Wyatt wanted to lose the gravel but not blow their budget. 5-months later their frontyard is filling in flawlessly. It's "a super smart and cost-effective approach to landscaping with native plants," says Roshin.
customized plan
how they did it...
To layout the plants just right with their planned bocci ball court, Roshin and Wyatt added a customization to their Xeric Modern LG plant pack. And hired a professional installer.
water-saving plants
Cactus & Succulents
With a mix of cactus, succulents and Australian plants, this garden loves all the dry drainage that mixing some of the old gravel into the soil created. A mulch finish locks in moisture & keeps weeds down.
in progress
DG Bocci Ball Court
The center Decomposed Granite bocci ball court was lined with heavy landscape cloth and will be edged with treated landscape timbers when complete.
los angeles
water restriction ready
Without knowing it, these customers planted their yard in the nick of time. The 3-months of deep spring waterings meant their plants were ready to go for 1-2x a week watering restrictions in summer 2022.
6 Months old
XERIC MODERN
Low-water cactus, succulents and mediterranean climate-adapted plants combine for this clean contemporary plant package
Superbloom Selfie Summer Walkthrough
Superbloom Selfie Summer Walkthrough
California native
Wildflower Garden
This seasonal garden, inspired by the desert and coastal Superblooms of California, offers an array of native blossoms in spring, a quiet dormancy period in summer and a show of fall inflorescences from native ornamental grasses. In the first year, all of these native plants put the majority of their energy into setting roots and adapting to their new environment. By their second spring the whole yard will be starting to fill in solid. Poppies and smaller grasses self-sow around the landscape. Bigger pink, purple and gold grasses spread out around the back.
BEFORE
gravel & stepstones
AFTER
summer fade
AFTER
3 months old
AFTER
5 months old
what's growin' on right now...
SANTA MONICA
This parking strip went from parched to plentiful. The WILD GRASS small plant pack 2-months after planting.
YORBA LINDA
3-months after planting. MELLOW MAISON plant pack in dmsll filling in the back of an ornamental grass frontyard.
DEL MAR
2-weeks after planting, SUPERBLOOM SELFIE early spring blossoms ready and preparing for take off.
PACIFICA
2-weeks after planting! Newly installed BLOSSOM 365 hummingbird plant pack in Large. SF Bay area.
Before & After Dead Lawn
L.A. Lawn Replacements with REBATE-Qualifying groundcover and California native sod.
BEFORE
dead lawn
new groundcover
plugs (winter)
