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Traditional Garden Trends

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Support Your Life and LA with a New Take on the Traditional Landscape

 

You look for aesthetics that have stood the test of time – meaning centuries. Classic and elegant fashions appeal to you, and you revel in a space where all the details feel warm, welcoming and in tune with one another. Your architecture may have historic relevance – and your homeowners association or historic preservation overlay zone (HPOZ) may require a certain aesthetic.

Low-Water Lawn

You may experience more resistance than most when you think of losing your lawn. Maybe you like how lawns unify the community aesthetic, feel nostalgia for games played on backyard turf, or simply enjoy having an expanse of open greenery. A traditional turf grass aesthetic can be kept when installing a water and time saving IdealMow lawn.

Refer Back to the Architecture

If your walls, walks and drives reflect the developer’s standard concrete, you may experience a greater sense of harmony if they repeat architectural themes. Here, the brick seating mirrors the brick siding of the home. If possible, reclaiming materials from the home creates optimal consistency.

A quirky, gnarled wood bench and low rock retaining wall offer restful seats with views of the pool amidst the dancing foliage.

Exchange Blooms

You may have strong attachments to certain foliage. Is it the roses? The camellias? We created our plant exchange to help! With more than 6000 plants native to California, there is almost always a bloom aesthetically similar to one that holds your heart.

Look Back to Move Forward

Another way to envision a landscape that will feel just right is to take inspiration from the landscapes historically associated with your architectural style. The landscape is an opportunity to unify an imported architectural style into its new environment. For example, this low water landscape keeps time with the home’s French Provincial architecture.

When the landscape that complements LA’s climate also amplifies your life and your architecture’s curb appeal, it won’t feel like a sacrifice. It will feel like you’ve achieved what was always meant to be.

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Grandma Chic in the Garden

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Create spaces that feel wild and free while placing the world at your feet

You are a wild thing. You like surprises and eschew too much structure. Your ideal patios and walks will feel like you’ve hiked into into the wild to discover something new in a place you already love. You might be digging the grandma chic and 70s trends after decades of rigorously edited spaces.

Be Gone Lawn!

Of all the personality types, you are the most likely to look entirely beyond the lawn and seek a rich tapestry of textures and blooms. Once you have it, you feel more than a little sorry for the poor houses locked in those horrible green straight jackets!

Vibrant native foliage fills the garden from the curb to the front door.

Kick Concrete to the Curb

Wrapped with blooms and all they bring, you feel compelled to wander, and you don’t want concrete under your feet as you do. You will likely prefer the subtle sounds and softness of decomposed gravel rocks to the percussion of gravel. After all, its important the birds, bees and lizards aren’t sent into hiding as you explore.

Au Natural

Even lawn-free, you may feel constrained in a space that feels too formed. You know what LA’s natural spaces feel like. Your foliage must not be fussy, but it should have a rhythm and flow of heights, textures and colors.

Peaceful Living

Once surrounded by authentic nature, you may find yourself less compelled to head to the hills. You may find the peace you sought on the mountain right outside your door.

A variety of colors and textures make a walk from your door to an outdoor seating area carry all the joy of a stroll along the Backbone Trail.

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