Westside Santa Cruz Residential Garden

Greywater is redirected from the laundry into different areas of the garden, like the mulch basin around this tree. The mulch basin acts as a filter and allows the water to feed deeper towards the tree roots.

Arctostaphylos stanfordiana bakeri - "Louis Edmunds" Manzanita

Rain barrels collect water from the roof and redirect it into the creek bed where it is allowed to sink back into the landscape

Mimulus aurantiacus - sticky monkeyflower

The original front yard with turf and trees, before the hedges were in place and before the relandscaping

The front yard before, with turf and surrounding hedges

Rain garden doing the work of cleaning and infiltrating stormwater