Mediterranean Garden

We'd call this more of a Mediterranean botanical garden, given the wide variety of plant materials used. The client wanted to represent many species and cultivars to create a showy hillside. This was a fun project to work on because the client was so involved with the plant selections — we developed a lasting friendship, and when she later moved to Washington State, she hired us again to create a two-acre Japanese garden for her new property.

In the later photos, you can see the beach garden we created. The client is an avid scuba diver and wanted a garden to display several conch shells she'd brought back from Cozumel, so we used bamboo, phormium, grasses, and palm trees. We brought in nine yards of sand and shaped it into dunes for a natural look. The result was spectacular.