Showing posts with label Low Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Low Water. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Interview by BayAreaForSale.com, Low Water Design Solutions


Taproot Garden Design & Fine Gardening interviewed by Renee from BayAreaForSale.com

Topics Include:
  • Changing Bay Area Micro-Climates
  • Facts & Figures Regarding Water Usage and Lawn Irrigation 
  • Plant Alternatives to Create Low Water, Evergreen Environments  
  • Low-Water & Drip Irrigation Solutions
  • Water & Cost Saving Trends
  • Low Water, Low Maintenance Garden & Landscape Design
Please Contact Us for Interview, Consultation & Design, and Link Share Opportunities.

Be Well!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Low Water Urban Gem


This three year old garden literally sparkles with light and life. The owner had a talented local artisan (Lyndon Johnson) custom create the planting beds and walkways in cut stone, while her extremely handy husband hand-built the craftsman-style dual facing street side benches, as well as the fence and entryway deck.

More than almost any other garden we've ever helped to create (and thanks to the keen benches) neighbors seem drawn like magnets to lounge in front of the garden and simply enjoy a friendly chat. With such a beautiful, practical selection of plants complementing the avaunt-garde walkway & planters as a backdrop, who can blame them? This garden is ultra relaxed, effortlessly natural and yet still manages to express a firm modernity reflected in the eclectic hardscape design and low water garden plan. Talk about curb appeal. This garden is, we daresay, tres chic mon ami!


The Front Garden








The Plan


Visit this garden at our website:
http://taprootgardens.com/garden_landscape_design_mg_garden.htm

View this garden design process, from mapping to drawing:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.229288725548.176252.221024455548&type=1

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Vegetable Gardener's Paradise


This forward-thinking homeowner worked with us to transform unused and rather conventional looking back yard spaces into a sprawling vegetable garden replete with multiple types of fruiting trees, scores of different (and exotic) veggies, wires for grapes, custom made raised beds, even copious lavenders to ensure ample pollinators - all using standard low-water drip irrigation methods. A bonafide vegetable garden lovers paradise!

The Plan




The Garden

















See the M-Brace raised garden bed brackets used aesthetically in this design: http://www.ufpi.com/product/outdooressentials/mbrace.htm