Community gardens are sprouting up all over the place… but how about the community orchards? Now, with the help of Organic Landscapes, you can create one right in your own backyard. Fruit trees often demand no greater care than any [...]
This is the “3-way valve”, the beginning of the laundry 2 Landscape Greywater irrigation system. With a simple turn of the handle, you determine the destiny of your greywater. One way leads to toxic sewers, failing wastewater treatment plants, and poisoned rivers. The other way leads to a rich fertile soil food web, and an abundant [...]
This recent install was down the street from the patio, deck and vegi box project, you may have seen us walking between the properties or even directing traffic!
This new landscape replaces another lawn with blooming perennials, a meandering pathway through the garden and three fruit trees which will be maintained for free by Organic Landscapes [...]
This is yet another recent completion, the front yard was installed about a year ago and the homeowners were so happy that they invited us back to landscape the back yard. We replaced an old wooden deck with a new redwood deck, added a flagstone patio for seating, barbequing and entertaining, and installed a raised vegetable [...]
This is one of my favorite plants which happens to be in bloom at several of our properties this month. Not only does it lend a lively yellow color to the landscape but butterflies, bees and other pollinators just love it. This is because they like to land on the flat surface of the flowerhead which [...]
Recognize this property? It was once lawn but is now filled with all kinds of perennials and adored by the homeowners. This renovation will save nearly 30,000 gallons of water per year and it looks so much prettier than that old lawn (see the ‘Watch this Space blog for the before picture)! We also added a [...]
For a Greener California…
*Native / drought tolerant plants
*Greywater irrigation
*Rainwater Harvesting
*Pervious Pavement
* “Smart” Self-adjusting irrigation controllers
Throughout the history of the arid West, water has always been an important issue. After all, no resource is as vital to its development, agriculture, and environmental preservation. California has always suffered from drought cycles, and while this year’s precipitation [...]
We are in the process of replacing this 1800 square foot lawn with a flagstone pathway, beautiful boulders and low water plantings that will flower throughout each season and save our client nearly 17000 gallons of water per year. We already have the pathway and boulders in place and the plantings are not far behind. Check back [...]
We finished our latest lawn replacement last week and it looks great. After removing three different sections of lawn we had space to create a mini fruit orchard, a drought tolerant garden and a Decomposed Granite pathway meandering through beautiful fragrant plantings. As a huge added bonus this will save the client 90% on her [...]
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