Los Feliz Hideaway

Installation January 2022

Project Scope

Client priorities: growing food, low water landscape, dog-friendly space, outdoor living with space for hosting

  • worked with Greencraft Landscape to replace the gravel and pavers with cemented flagstone, additional drainage via sump pump

  • added veggie boxes, fruit trees + native plants

Project Details

🌎 Los Feliz

🏡 Side yard + courtyard

☀️ Partial sun

💧 Drip lines (separate stations for natives + veggie beds)


Courtyard Plants

Aloe (non-native)

Blue Eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium bellum

California Hedgenettle - Stachys bullata

Canyon Prince Wild Rye - Leymus condensatus 'Canyon Prince'

Columbine - Aquilegia formosa (in pot)

Coyote Mint - Monardella villosa

Desert Globemallow - Sphaeralcea ambigua

Dudleya varieties (potted under bench)

Golden Currant - Ribes aureum

Heuchera (varieties)

Hummingbird Sage - Salvia spathacea

Pacific Coast Iris - Iris 'Pacific Coast'

Pitcher sage - Lepechinia fragrans

Ray Hartman Ceanothus - Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman'

Red-flowered Buckwheat - Eriogonum grande var. rubescens

Seaside Daisy - Erigeron glaucus

Sugarbush - Rhus ovata

Sunset Manzanita - Arctostaphylos 'Sunset' (in pot)

Western Sword Fern - Polystichum munitum

Yarrow (varieties)

Yerba Buena - Clinopodium douglasii (in pot)

Fruit Trees

Oro Blanco Grapefruit (semi-dwarf)

Existing Plants

Agave (non-native)

Ivy (vine from neighbor)

Mature Olive tree + Citrus tree

The following images showcase the "before" and "after" shots.

more detail shots