Tranquil Retreat: A Garden Waiting Area for Mindful Reflection – Santa Rosa, CA
Healing Nature Close at Hand: Designed to be a tranquil haven, this seating area supports the healing journey of psychotherapy clients. It features a lush arrangement of hydrangeas, azaleas, and roses, with honeysuckle climbing over a post where lighting is ingeniously integrated within the vine itself, casting a gentle glow. Ground lights further illuminate the path, enhancing the enchanting atmosphere. The Baby Tears groundcover spreads wildly, adding to the garden’s charm and making it a perfect space for reflection and peace.
From Green to Gourmet: Transforming Lawns into Lush Edible Gardens – Santa Rosa, CA
Sustainable Living with Every Step: Embrace the joy of a ‘Usable Landscape’ where once there was merely a lawn. Mindful Landscapes has innovatively replaced the traditional grass with a vibrant edible garden, featuring Marionberries, Anise Hyssop, Blueberries, a variety of herbs, and a dedicated small vegetable plot. Each plant thrives on a meticulously timed drip irrigation system with lines carefully buried to ensure optimal watering without waste.
Not just a garden, but a revolution in your backyard, offering both beauty and bounty. Enjoy the freshest flavors right from your garden, thoughtfully designed for sustainability and ease.
Zen Serenity: 2 Decades of Growth and Beauty – Santa Rosa, CA
Preserved Elegance of Timeless Design: Step into tranquility with our meticulously designed Japanese garden, featuring a majestic 10-foot tall Spiral Cypress as its centerpiece. Installed by Mindful Landscapes over two decades ago, this serene space exemplifies our dedication to enduring beauty and thoughtful landscaping. As the years pass, the garden continues to flourish, reflecting the timeless appeal and meticulous care embedded in its foundation. Experience a slice of Zen with every visit, surrounded by the mature grace of a landscape that has beautifully stood the test of time.
White Quartz Flagstone with Thyme planted between stones – Santa Rosa, CA
Harmony and Efficiency in Design: Step into serenity with our White Quartz Flagstone pathways, beautifully arranged without the need for stone cutting, preserving the natural aesthetic of each piece. Nestled between the stones, Thyme not only adds a fragrant touch but also enhances the green footprint of your garden. Complemented by a low-flow pop-up sprinkler system, this setup ensures efficient water usage while maintaining the lushness of your landscape. Choose Mindful Landscapes for a design that merges beauty with sustainability, creating spaces that are as functional as they are enchanting.
Raised Garden Beds – Santa Rosa, CA
Sustainable Elegance in Every Corner: Discover the charm of our custom-built raised garden beds, crafted with Conheart Redwood known for its durability and smooth finish. Each bed is constructed using robust 4-foot stakes, ensuring longevity and resilience. Perfect for nurturing your organic vegetable and herb gardens, these beds are not only a functional addition to your landscape but also a testament to sustainable living. Embrace the beauty of eco-friendly gardening with Mindful Landscapes, where every detail is designed with intention and integrity.
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.
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.
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
We’ve been proud to work on this landscape from it’s beginning – from design to fruit bearing trees and berries.
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.
- Designed and maintained since 2000.
- Ten Fruit Trees in Front with Berries, Herbs, Perennials, Beneficial Insect Attracting Plants.
- Deer are present in the neighborhood.
Flagstone pathway to back patio, new plants, lighting, and drip system – Santa Rosa, CA
Transformative Elegance with a Touch of Practicality: Mindful Landscapes elegantly re-imagined what was once a massive, single concrete pour into a stunning flagstone masterpiece. We skillfully covered the original side-door steps with meticulously chosen flagstone, extending the pathway around the house. This path is not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional, featuring a custom lighting system to illuminate your evenings. As the flagstone path wraps around to the back porch, it completes the warm, earthy ambiance of your outdoor space. The addition of a short stairway seamlessly manages elevation changes, ensuring accessibility and enhancing the landscape’s natural flow.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Drought tolerant plants in a dry creek bed with Sonoma Field Stone and Cobblestones
Santa Rosa, CA
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
This is the Second Stairway in a 50 ft. curving lean-to retaining wall (same wall as above).
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
We create flowers arrangements.
Here, at the clients request, we regularly arrange flowers from the landscape.
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