Project details
- Location
- Solana Beach, San Diego County
- Project type
- Planting
- Primary trade
- Landscape Design
- Features
- Walkway · Gravel / DG surfacing
- Planting
- Succulent
- Scope
- Garden paths and gravel beds
The goal
Give broad gravel beds a clear layout while allowing individual plant forms to remain visible.
Design & construction approach
Contrasting gravel colors distinguish the beds, where spaced planting, pots and rocks provide focal points.
The finished result
Open gravel around the plants highlights their varied shapes without obscuring the path edges.
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Materials & planting
- Stone-pattern paving
- Rectangular paving borders
- Contrasting gravel
- Succulent and palm planting
- Accent rocks
- Container plants
Trades used on this build
The build was led by our landscape design crew, with support from hardscape contractors and landscape planting & garden design. Every trade is in-house.
Building in Solana Beach
Design and construction are both in-house, so grading, drainage, masonry, planting and lighting are solved together. Licensed C-27 Landscape Contractor — CSLB License #1159370.
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