Fire Safer Landscape:  Keep it defensible, keep it hydrated.

FIRE SAFER LANDSCAPE EXAMPLE

Enjoy our newest set of plans appropriate to many regions in California but designed specifically for Sonoma County. These plans will turn into demonstration gardens at the Santa Rosa Junior College where you will be able to view the gardens pick your favorite and download irrigation and planting plans.

1. Gardening under the Oaks is easy and drought tolerant with the right plant choices and care not to water in the summer
UNDER THE OAKS PLANTING PLAN
UNDER THE OAKS – IRRIGATION PLAN –
2. Perennial Meadow – Perennial bunch grasses and flowering shrubs create a gorgeous garden full of habitat
Fire Safer Landscape – protect your home with defensible space and fire resistant plants
Extremes of Drought Tolerance: Desert and Coastal Plant Communities – Gardening by plant community is important because these plants have evolved together.  West of Hwy 101 many can use the coastal plant community East desert plants are well adapted to heat and no water for long periods of time.

Use these plans to replace the water thirsty lawn in your garden! These are a free downloadable resources sponsored by multiple agencies.  We provide them to promote biodiversity by using California native plants.

 

Small Garden Replacements  – Hot and Dry

These 900 SF gardens were created for Habitat For Humanity in the Fresno County Region.  They include an extensive Central Valley Plant list as well.  They should cost less than $3000 to install.  These plans will translate anywhere in California – if it can grow in the central valley – it can grow in your yard!

Habitat For Humanity -SIMPLE AND COLORFUL PLAN

SWALES AND MOUNDS PLAN

GRASSES AND LARGE SHRUBS PLAN

PERENNIAL FLOWERING MEADOW PLAN

Habitat Garden – Front or Back

A habitat garden is simple.  Provide water, cover and food and a variety of California native plants and watch your garden explode with life.  This one will work all over the state in Part- Sun in the Western Regions mostly sunny.  This garden was originally installed in Healdsburg, California where it gets REALLY warm in the Summer.  It is delightful with some of our favorites:  Eriophyllum lanatum (Wolly Sunflower), Juncus patens (Blue Rush) – in the swale, Cercis occidentalis (Red Bud), Ceanothus ‘Anchor Bay’ (Groundcover Blue Blossom), Arctostaphylos ‘Howard McMinn’ (McMinn Manzanita) to name a few!

SONOMA COUNTY Open Source Prelim Example

Swale and perennials with shrubs WEST FACING CALIFORNIA

 

 

Coastal Garden

Coastal gardens are a great source of biodiversity.  Some of our favorite coastal plants are Leymus condensatus (Giant Wild Rye), Iris douglasiana (Douglas’s Iris) and Atemesia douglasiana (Sage).  Use this plan to replace your lawn with a beautiful garden.

COASTAL GARDEN-PLAN