Garden with Decomposed Granite for Spring Ideas and Designs

Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Urban Oasis Landscape DesignUrban Oasis Landscape Design
A sumptuous palette of yellow and purple plants graces the slope. It’s a lush and biodiverse selection of California natives and the spirited expanse of flowers and foliage grounds the new house into the surrounding hillside. Aromatic native Sages, Monkey Flower and Yarrow play off the rich green of Coyote Bush while native Blonde Ambition Blue Grama grass brushes the magenta pom-pom flowers of Pink Melaleuca tree. The tight purple flowers of California Lilac complement the open faced California Sunflower. A Coast Live Oak was planted to stand sentry over all. Plants are all hardy and highly drought tolerant. The Kurapia groundcover lawn is verdant but, once established, hardly needs watering. The constant buzzing and bird warbling create a soothing natural soundtrack.
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Urban Oasis Landscape DesignUrban Oasis Landscape Design
The CorTen retaining wall is a beautiful foil to the rustic stairs and wood and cable rail.
Atherton Complex
Atherton Complex
Blue Sierra Landscape ConstructionBlue Sierra Landscape Construction
New landscape remodel, include concrete, lighting, outdoor living space and drought resistant planting.
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Creating Space in Glassell Park
Urban Oasis Landscape DesignUrban Oasis Landscape Design
The CorTen retaining wall is a beautiful foil to the rustic stairs and wood and cable rail.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Texas French Bread Garden
Texas French Bread Garden
Charles Di Piazza ArchitectureCharles Di Piazza Architecture
A Heritage Live Oak Tree shades both the garden of the Court / Corten House, and its more public neighbor. Simple ground-covers of gravel and red decomposed granite encourage furnishings and inhabitation, while low barriers and plantings provide various measures of privacy.
Tables / Courtyard
Tables / Courtyard
Charles Di Piazza ArchitectureCharles Di Piazza Architecture
Tables made up of Raw Steel and Ipe have been custom-fabricated for the Texas French Bread Garden. These can be moved and arranged in a variety of ways to accommodate public use. A ground-cover of decomposed red granite further aids the flexibility of the social space.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Entry Bridge / Fountain
Entry Bridge / Fountain
Charles Di Piazza ArchitectureCharles Di Piazza Architecture
A metal mesh bridge and fountain mark the entry to the Texas French Bread Garden. The bridge crosses a rain garden full of native grasses that manage drainage, and provides a moment of pause when entering the domain of the garden. The fountain provides the sensory engagement of sound, reflection, and a cooling effect with the breeze.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Rancho Santa Fe, Parterre Gardens
Jesse York, Landscape DesignerJesse York, Landscape Designer
This award-winning design epitomizes luxury and formal Italian garden elegance, with natural decomposed granite walkways leading through meticulously arranged parterre gardens. Adhering to a sophisticated white, purple, and green color palette, these gardens bloom with carefully selected roses, irises, and geraniums. Celebrated annually on upscale garden tours, this project has become a beacon of design excellence, capturing the traditional Italian style with unparalleled sophistication.
Provence comes to California
Provence comes to California
Sweet Smiling LandscapesSweet Smiling Landscapes
This beautiful property is located in the hills above of Montecito with 360 degree of views onto the Channel Islands and the surrounding mountains. Inspired by the Japanese landscape design principal of the borrowed landscape the gardens on this property serves as a kind of picture frame from which to view the natural beauty of its surroundings. This 15-year-old costume-built home was crafted with all the style and workmanship ship found in Villa or Château in the Mediterranean. Unfortunately, the garden design was not as well thought out as the house was. Most of this property receives baking sun, drying winds and is in an extremely high fire danger area. Do to these factors many of the plants on the property were unsuitable for their location. The original planting scheme was also lifeless and colorless. Poor landscape maintenance had left many of the plants on the property sick and dying. We came in to revive this landscape, breathing new life into it. Creating a drought tolerant and fire wise landscape was of utmost importance to these clients. Staying true to the more formal landscape styles found in Southern Europe we also want to create an opportunity to design seamlessly blend with its natural surroundings. We did that by incorporating a lot of California native plants. This vast property also contains an avocado orchard and a vineyard. By adding California native plants the property is inviting in native birds and insects that help keep pollinate the orchard and vineyard and keep pest problems at bay. Because these clients enjoy harvesting from their land we added elements of edible landscaping to this project. We filled pottery and planter beds with fruit trees, culinary and medicinal herbs as well as flowers that can be used in cut flower arrangements. Lastly, we went through carefully pruning diseased plants, treating pest problems an improving the soil. Now the landscape is not only more beautiful it is more protected against fire, is more water wise and integrate into its surrounds with a wholistic approach.

Garden with Decomposed Granite for Spring Ideas and Designs

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