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Costa Mesa
Plants Purchased at
OC Succulents
Got Rid of Grass by
Digging it up
Why did you want to have a drought friendly landscape?
The situation with our water supply is dire. We felt it very important to create a lovely garden to be visually pleasing but also support a reduced water demand.
Biggest Challenge
Finding the right landscaper who understood this minimalist approach and working with me to get the right look and design
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Costa Mesa
Landscaper
Colorworks Landscape
How easy is it to maintain?
We have a very simple drip line installed throughout the entire front yard and parkway area for water. The drip line is set on a timer to for a few times per week. Not much water is needed at all to maintain. Every weekend we spend a few minutes cleaning up dead leaves
Biggest Challenge
The design and placement of the plants. We had no idea what should go where. That's why we trusted our landscaper.
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Foothill Ranch
Landscaper
Tomscapes Landscape Services
Got Rid of Grass
Three applications of Round Up
Plants Purchased
Tree of Life Nursery
How did you work with your HOA
Sent in blueprints with changes and plant choices. The HOA wanted to make sure we were considering drainage and keeping it as originally designated by the builder.
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Irvine
Landscaper
Dig Garden Design
Plants Purchased at
Plant Depot in San Juan Capistrano, Village Nurseries in Huntington Beach , and Armstrong Nurseries
Maintenance Requirements
The amount of time needed to maintain is so much less. much less.
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Irvine
Biggest Challenge
Dealing with the HOA was the biggest challenge in transforming my front yard to a drought resistant landscape. The review process for my particular HOA was very tedius and time consuming. Since I was one of the first residents in my association to transform my front yard to drought resistant landscaping the HOA was using outdated standards in which to base their decisions/approvals. There were many challenges in dealing with the plant to hard-scape ratio which the HOA is still in the process of revising their architectural landscape requirements to reflect the current environmental concerns in our area.
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Irvine
Landscaper
homeowner and gardener
Maintenance
Have not turned water on all winter. Requires maybe once a week 5 minutes of sprinklers if there is no rain.
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Lake Forest
Landscaper
Landscape Solutions- Lindsey Dunn
Plants purchased
Green Thumb Nursery, Home Depot
Biggest Challenge
Removing the existing Bermuda grass and finding the quality and quantity of plant material for the new landscape
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Lake Forest
Landscaper
Landscape Solutions- Lindsey Dunn
Biggest Challenge
Getting the correct design. We worked with a design architect.
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Lake Forest
I only water once every 2 weeks. There is some weeding to do. I strongly advise using a weed-barrier in addition to taking out the grass. This was not done for my yard.
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Trabuco Canyon
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Foothill Ranch
Plants purchased at
OC Greenhouses, Lowes and Home Depot.
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Irvine
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Irvine
Installed drip system
Biggest Challenge
"dealing with the HOA as they did not know what to approve."
Having trouble with your HOA? Know your rights
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Irvine
Plants purchased at Home Depot, Lowes, and Flowerdale
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Irvine
"We hand water once or twice a month, fertilize when I think about it, some weeding, cut off dead blooms. It's so easy to maintain that I really don't do anything but enjoy it!
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