3482 Beethoven Street - Map 6B

Come by for a visit and pick up a bag of California wild flower seeds for your scattering pleasure!

With a keen eye for aesthetics and an intense dislike of lawns, this homeowner created a low water landscape combining California natives with various other low water plants. They paid close attention to textures, fragrances, patterns, architectural elements and rich colors. They took great care when choosing the plants, which were chosen for their aesthetic beauty as well as being beneficial for the environment. The plants include three kinds of salvia, Arbutus trees, wooly thyme, native columbine, grevillias , flax, euphorbia and wooly bush from Australia, an Olive tree, deep purple heuchra, fescue, ameria maritima and senecio, and others.




This is a complete DIY project. Starting with ripping out the old Bermuda grass, designing and installing the drip irrigation system , choosing the plants, designing and installing the plantings and laying the walkway, they came away with lots of blisters and a true feeling of satisfaction.


There is a rain catchment barrel on the property and reclaimed cement from the old path was used for the walkway.