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LOS ANGELESFIELD LOG

INDEX · 06 PROJECTS

Projects

Six gardens, three of them written up in full. Every figure on these pages describes what was built; none of it is a claim about what a garden will do for you.

A gravel garden with native drifts and a curving path where a dry lawn used to be. — PRIVATE GARDEN · ALDER CANYON · 0.4 AC · 118 NATIVES · 2026
A canyon lot that had stopped draining
Nine weeks. A dry lawn and a cracked path came out; a shallow swale and 118 plants went in.
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A terraced hillside garden with dry-stacked stone walls, native grasses and a narrow switchback path. — HILLSIDE GARDEN · QUAIL RIDGE · 0.6 AC · 210 NATIVES · 2025
Terraces cut into a slope nobody could stand on
Four dry-stacked terraces, a switchback path and 210 plants on a slope that had been bare soil.
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A small courtyard with a decomposed granite floor, a steel planter holding an olive tree and chairs in the shade. — COURTYARD · MESA COURT · 0.05 AC · 26 PLANTS · 2025
A concrete courtyard given a floor and a tree
A 40 by 55 foot slab, a drain and one plastic chair. Now a steel planter, an olive and a floor you can move on.
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A front garden of native shrubs and young oaks along a decomposed granite path in morning light. — PRIVATE GARDEN · SUMAC FLAT · 0.3 AC · 96 NATIVES · 2026
A flat lot planted in drifts
Front and rear yards on one plan, a single path material and no lawn left.

A backyard after planting with a gravel swale curving through young plants and irrigation flags still in place. — RAIN GARDEN · TULE WASH · 0.3 AC · 74 NATIVES · 2026
Roof water sent to the middle of the yard
Four downspouts, one swale and a basin that holds a winter storm for a day.

A hillside garden at dusk with native grasses catching the last light and city haze below. — HILLSIDE GARDEN · BARRANCA VISTA · 0.5 AC · 160 NATIVES · 2025
An evening garden above the basin
Low path lighting, grasses that read backlit, and nothing planted taller than the view.