We specialize in California native plants. Our projects seek to connect the built landscape to a larger community of flora and fauna, to attract wildlife into the urban garden, to reduce water waste, and to bolster a strong sense of local identity.

Lighting systems, water features, stonework, wooden decks, and other hardscaping elements can broaden the aesthetic and functional pleasures of a native plant garden.

Community.

Capture the feeling of an oak woodland, a coastal meadow, or a mountain creek by choosing plants that associate in those environments. Plants growing together in the wild also complement each other in cultivation, building relationships of synergy and strength.

Water conservation.

Many native plants are drought-tolerant, requiring no irrigation but the rain. As water gets more scarce and the bills get more expensive, plants adapted to dry conditions can liberate the landscape from the garden hose.

Erosion control.

Protect waterfront property by planting native coastal strand and dune plants; save embankments with native groundcovers adapted to steep terrain.

Wildlife.

Birds and butterflies evolved in tandem with specific native plants. Leverage this ancient symbiosis by planting local natives to attract beneficial wildlife into the garden.

Identity.

Landscaping with native plants in the San Francisco Bay Area deepens our connections to the earth in ways not available to the proprietor of an English rose garden or the fancier of tropical begonias. Native flora helps to compose a special identity of place.

For a consultation,
call the studio at 415.462.0489
or email info at madrono dot org

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