4,838 sq ft landscape project: full make over in Santa Monica, CA

Our client bought a house on 14th Street, in Santa Monica. While renovating the all house, they decided to ask us for a full make over of the outdoor space.

This projet includes a 280 sq ft deck, a decomposed granite terrace, wide gravel paths, and a large vegetable garden with a small orchard on the side. We started from scratch. All the existing plants were either dead, sick, or overgrown.
One main aspect of the intervention was to bring privacy on the perimeter of the property. we used tall Ficus hedges (12′ tall) and 6′ tall fences, as well as the mature trees to block views to and from the neighbors.

The plant palette is Californian and Mediterranean:
- fruitless ‘San Gabriel’ Olive trees,
- Italian Cypresses,
- Ligustrum texanum,
- Agavaes,
- Westringia fruticosa,
- Pennisetum,
- Sage,
- Boxwood,
- Helichrysum,
- Oak tree,
- Laurus ‘Saratoga’ trees,
- Nerium oleander,
- etc…

and many fruit trees:
- Avocado dwarf tree,
- Fig tree,
- Grapes,
- Apricot tree,
- Pear tree,
- Lemon,
- Key lime,
- Orange tree.

This project includes also the installation of light fixtures, and drip line and low pressure irrigation for the entire lot, as required by the City of Santa Monica.

We focussed on:

Implementation of project: cut existing damaged trees, grading the entire lot, building a large deck with two sets of stairs, creating long alleys, building a large decomposed granite terrace for drawing studio, bringing structure through the planting and the selection of matures trees to enhance the estate flair, building new gates, installing new fences, going through the inspection process.

More pictures to come in the early Summer 2014.

This project includes: tall mature trees, full make over with complete new grading, Mediterranean and Californian palette, estate flair.