Drought Tolerant Garden

A recently completed project for a drought tolerant garden including water features. To view more photos of this project, please visit our commercial installation gallery at stevensmithlandscape.com

Residential Estate, Rancho Bernardo

A recently completed backyard landscape for a residential estate in Rancho Bernardo.
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Plant of the Month: May 2011

Cistus or Rockrose is an evergreen shrub with showy spring flowers, drought resistant and tolerant of poor dry soil.  Recommended for fire hazard area plantings.  Sun-loving and fast growing. This is C. purpureus, the Orchid Rockrose, approx. 4 ft. tall and wide, with 3" wide reddish purple flowers.

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Paspalum Turf Installation & Maintenance: Municipal Park

Paspalum is a warm season turf grass that is durable, with low watering requirements and "self-healing" properties.It has been used traditionally for golf courses, but now is gaining a more prominent place in the turf grass industry.Steven Smith Landscape installed (and also currently maintains) one of the first largest paspalum turf projects in San Diego County, at Shadow Hill Park in Santee (pictured). We used SeaDwarf Paspalum with optimum mowing height at 1/2" to 3/4", a fine texture and excellent drought resistance.

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Plant of the Month: April 2011

The Red Carpet Rose, a member of the genus Rosa is a groundcover variety, with showy flowers attractive to butterflies.

Fast growing to 2 to 3 ft. tall, 3 ft. wide with dark green foliage and red blooms, spring through fall. Easy care, water wise and disease resistant and useful as a border, container, mass planting and erosion control. Likes full sun and moist but not soggy surface soil.

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Planting Installation, Cote de Caza

Recently completed planting installation for a residence in Cote de Caza, Orange County. Featured in our residential installation gallery at stevensmithlandscape.com

Rancho Santa Fe Residence, tree installation

We recently installed a 60" box tree, a California Live Oak Quercus agrifolia at residence in Rancho Santa Fe. A mature California Live Oak can reach up to 70 feet high, with a maximum height at 20 years of 25 feet.
The photos show our crew offloading and positioning the tree for the installation.

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