A water-wise CA native landscape that stabilizes the hillside and supports wildlife.
Projects
Sharing landscape and lifestyle insights to help you nurture beautiful, meaningful landscapes
Beneath the Canopy
A Pasadena garden offering a refreshing perspective on CA natives and our watershed.
Garden that Welcomes Water
Designed to harvest rain, this Sierra Madre garden transforms every storm into an opportunity.
Canyon Ecosystem
This Mandeville Canyon garden brings you on a journey where cultivation and wildness coexist.
Case Study: Habitat Gardens
Native plants, sculpted stones, weathered logs, and soil-friendly materials welcome in life.
Case Study: Optimize Water
Water is more than a utility—it is a quiet miracle that cycles through all living ecosystems.
Case Study: Urbanite
Repurposed with intention, discarded materials become our unique palette for hardscape.
Resilient Cottage Garden
A charming 1925 cottage in La Cañada Flintridge designed to be “climate-change ready.”
The Overlook
This hillside home in Mt. Washington frames and enhances spectacular views.
Reimagined Colonial-Revival
A Hollywood home built in 1938 determined to design a paradise for birds and pollinators.
Pasadena Wild
The direction here was clear: bring nature home. No frills, just a cozy habitat.
El Jardin del Patron
A garden in the Pasadena foothills that’s a wildlife corridor surrounded by Oaks.












