Outdoor residential design trends are a combo of how people want to live and what the climate demands.
Here are a few trends that we love because they make it more fun to live at your house!
- Front-yard conversation patios!
- bring the kids!
- stop by for 20 mins…
- casual, fun, spontaneous
- Focal-point seating
- great way to create intention in your space
- a place to linger, read, check messages
- welcoming!!
- Decorative rock / pebble ground cover
- stays in place during rain and flooding
- relatively easy for gardeners to keep clean
- manages ground temperature for CA native plants and their root systems
- Berms
- create height differentials in the grade and are helpful with water management
- Boulders
- give shape and order to a landscape and protect the roots of your valuable plants
- Paths – flagstone, pavers, bricks
- show people how to move in the space
- great way to traverse a yard, particularly when using pebble or mulch
- beautiful
- lead the eye to focal points
- organize transitions between terrain and surface materials
- Privacy screens
- great between neighbors when needed
- great to section off large yards
- great to hide rubbish bins, ACs, etc
- Aromatic gardens
- so many native plants have beautiful scents to bring your garden to your olfactory receptor neurons
- beautiful
- seasonal, and with perennials, return every year
- encourage pollinators for your other plants, including your citrus and/or vegetables!
- Dry creeks
- are composed of natural materials that give an organic flow to a landscape
- show off boulders and rocks
- create drainage areas to allow rainfall to absorb slowly and remain in your water table
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