100% Native Plant installation – No irrigation needed! – Bodega Bay CA

We installed gopher wire below the pea gravel.
We then planted 100% native California plants, thus avoiding the cost and maintenance of a watering system.


Private ‘park’ and intimate meeting space along a decomposed granite path – Santa Rosa, CA

A decomposed granite pathway leads to an intimate park-like sitting area.

Drought tolerant plants will fill in to embrace the sitting area.


Less lawn, more Flowers! – Santa Rosa, CA

This work was done for an existing client who loved picking flower so much…  she requested we removed part of the existing lawn to have even more flowers.

How nice it is to be able to pick all the free flowers you want – for quick bouquets, for table decorations, for sprucing up gifts and cards with that final sweet touch.


Graduated width flagstone stairway to front flagstone patio – Santa Rosa, CA

The varying width of the stairway adds to the organic custom feel of this installation.

The drought tolerant plants are in the process of being installed.


Flagstone pathway to back patio, new plants, lighting, and drip system – Santa Rosa, CA

The original side-door steps was one massive concrete pour.  We covered those steps in flagstone and then continued the flagstone path around the house and lined it with a lighting system.

The flagstone path wraps around to the back porch, completing the look and the warm earthy feeling.


No Maintenance Landscape with Drip System – Santa Rosa, CA

The request was for a “No Maintenance” landscape.
We favored “drought tolerant” plants and setup the whole irrigation system to a timer and schedule.


Railroad Tie Stairway – Freestone, CA

Making use of “on-site local resources” is one of the great permaculture/sustainable practices.


Flagstone Patio with Thyme & Drip System between the Flagstones – Santa Rosa, CA

This flagstone patio has thyme planted between the flagstones.  Over time the thyme will fill in, framing each stone.
Irrigation has been laid below the stones, watering the plants without trip hazards or visual disruption to the contrasting beauty and interplay between of rock and plants.


Landscape Lighting System – Santa Rosa, CA

A “Welcome home!” – for those who work late yet still want to enjoy their landscape when they return home.


Drought Tolerant & Low maintenance Concrete Design

The project was a request for a concrete front-yard with plants, rocks & turtles between Concrete – with irrigation system laid down first.
Low Water, No Weeds.


East Santa Rosa, CA

Landscape Design - Sonoma County

We’ve been proud to work on this landscape from it’s beginning – from design to fruit bearing trees and berries.

  • Designed and maintained since 2000.
  • Ten Fruit Trees in Front with Berries, Herbs, Perennials, Beneficial Insect Attracting Plants.
  • Deer are present in the neighborhood.

Sonoma, CA

3 Garden Path Sonoma CA

Looking out the Side yard to the Street, this path of Montana Flagstone was laid with only River Sand. We allowed the Ornamental Strawberry, Yellow Potentella and Lemon Balm Ground covers to fill in naturally.


Kenwood, CA

4 Kenwood, CA Garden Design Front entry

Plants: On the left of the sidewalk from front to back is Lambs Ears, Purple Berberis, Upright Rosemary,  Escallonia. On the right of the sidewalk from front to back is Lavender, Strawberry Tree, Mexican Sage. And Roses at the Front Door.
Secluded in the hills of Kenwood, this is a landscape where, one morning, a buck and two deer came running straight at us, missing us by a foot or two, they were sleeping in our clients front yard. What a treat!

Deer used to feast on the Roses at the front door, until we grew 6 to 8 foot Roses.


Bodega Bay, CA

5 Staircase Rail road tie Bodega Bay, CA Landscape Contractor Staircase

This Railroad Tie Stairway was built in to sands of Bodega Bay. Secured with iron rebar through the ties, we cemented between each tie with multi-colored pebbles. The cement has a base layer of shale, rebar, and metal fencing for reinforcement.


East Santa Rosa, CA

6 Patios flagstone East Santa Rosa, CA

With her office on the house side, she requested a waiting area for clients with Roses on the fence, Bush Roses, Lemon Balm, Azaleas, and a fountain. With a light post behind the fountain, and ground lights, clients can see at night.


West Santa Rosa, CA

7 West Santa Rosa, CA

This was a lawn we covered with cardboard, mulch, plants, and a drip system. They requested a low maintenance, colorful landscape.


West Santa Rosa, CA

8 West Santa Rosa, CA

Drought tolerant plants in a dry creek bed with Sonoma Field Stone and Cobblestones


Santa Rosa, CA

9 Rock wall Stairway stone concrete Santa Rosa

They requested a new Retaining-Wall be built in place of the old falling down wall. We suggested a Dry-Stack Sonoma Fieldstone Lean-To Wall including rubble behind the Fieldstone for proper water drainage.
We left to Old Wall behind the New Wall, buried, especially since the Old Wall wasn’t in the way of Our New Planting.
The Stairway was mapped out on the ground with Non-Toxic Biodegradable Ground Paint.
Both Stairways became shaped to the Underground Structures of the Old Wall, and most important, the gas main.


West Santa Rosa, CA

10 Stairway Rock wall steps flagstone

This is the Second Stairway in a 50 ft. curving lean-to retaining wall (same wall as above).


Windsor, CA

11 Patio Design Windsor, CA

The client requested Roses and Herbs in multi-colored ceramic pots at the lawn edge to be watered from the drip system.


Santa Rosa, CA

12 Seasonal Flowers Santa Rosa, CA

We create flowers arrangements.
Here, at the clients request, we regularly arrange flowers from the landscape.


Petaluma, CA

2 Pond Waterscape Petaluma, CA

This magical waterfall has 7 big Rose Quartz at the top and 14 Amethyst Geodes at the pond edge.

  • 4′ x 5′ heart pond
  • Two waterfalls