Water Wise Garden Design services range from consulting and design, to complete installations, management and maintenance.

We advocate the science of soil testing to determine which plant communities will ultimately be the happiest in your environment.  Plant-driven design will dictate plant selection and create a sense of place, rather than trying to fit unsuitable plants into an environment which will ultimately create a disagreeable relationship for the plants and for you.

We can help you with water-saving irrigation and rain barrel systems to promote the most important aspect of a sustainable garden and eco-system.

Planting in this eco-friendly way will attract and help preserve threatened or endangered species and their habitats.

Our interest in xeriscapes and coastal environments has evolved to include native plants from similar Mediterranean climate zones. They too rely upon short rainy winters, long dry summers and a proximity to large bodies of salt water.  The intention is to blend plants from all these areas in an inspirational dialogue and let them thrive in low-water, maritime communities.

In the first known Monterey Peninsula native grass field trial, we discovered important new information about how grasses in coastal and sand dune soils survive.  We have since developed an interest and knowledge about succulent genera which enhance and blend with these landscapes.

Spring meadow

Hwy 12, Solano County

Courtesy David Amme

Monterey xeriscape with succulents & Silver Carpet ground cover

Monterey xeriscape

Mown path, spring meadow

Meadow in dappled shade

Germinating field trial native grasses

Native planting Carmel road divide

First spring Carmel road divide

Seed Collecting in the Berkely hills

courtesy david Amme

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