my landscape design and installation business, everything gardens, has been blessed with great clients and opportunities in the organic gardening and permaculture realms here in los angeles. we are working to rid los angeles of those water hungry lawns and replacing them with native, edible, and drought tolerant landscapes that are both beautiful and functional.
below you will see the transformation of my most recent project in el segundo. this is a garden in which we focused on lowering the water consumption in my clients' 60x70' back yard, which was previously all lawn (dead lawn mostly), to a smaller 500 s.f. lawn with the surrounding focus on edibles and drought tolerant plantings.
here are the befores:
the durings:
we used permaculture methods to kill out that huge lawn and used only organic ammendments to build her soil structure. and the afters:
also, she now has the following edibles to choose from:
apricots
lemons
oranges
advocado
mexican lime
kumquat
figs
tomatoes
chilis
eggplant
and so many varieties of herbs
we also added a drip irrigation system which runs on a weather controller (it knows when it is going to rain and waters accordingly) and all of the pavers were reclaimed concrete so we kept lots of typical waste material from going to the landfill! now there are so many butterflies and hummingbirds coming by to check it out... did i mention that i love my job?
