Carlsbad Home: Installation & After Photos

As promised, here are some photos from our latest residential landscape installation in Carlsbad. For before photos, check the previous post.

Installation (done by a very hard working crew...):

After Photos:

All photographs in this post are credited to Laurel Stanford. Check out more of her brilliant photography at Precious Memories - Photography by Laurel Gales Stanford. 

Carlsbad Home - Before Photos

This weekend Aeonium Design Studio finished up another residence. This one in Rancho Carlsbad - a community of manufactured homes just East of the Carlsbad Flower Fields. ADS is working on the entryway to this community for the HOA, and as new owners come in, will be helping them to redo their landscaping according to their HOA guidelines.

Our first yard, a demonstration house for the community, went in this past Sunday:

Front Yard - Before

Side Driveway Planting - Before

A note about the property. Rancho Carlsbad started out as a trailer park some years ago. About 30 years ago the community members started buying the homes AND the land. Now when many people move into the community they pull out the existing structure and rebuild.

The community itself is gorgeous. Its a dedicated senior community, built with Mission style architecture and planting. Two creeks run through the property, a large clubhouse sits on a lake in the center of the community, and they boast a large community garden, resort style pool and recreation area, and a heavily planted environment.

Photos from the installation, as well as photos of the completed front yard will be up shortly!

ADS' First Clients = Happy Clients!

This last week has been very exciting - the installation on my first residence finished up! I went over this afternoon to take some photographs and give my clients a maintenance manual for their new plants. I'll include a few photos in this post, there are more on Aeonium's Design Studio Facebook page.

The back yard is split up into the main yard, the garden, and the side slope:

Before - Main Backyard

Before - Garden

With the Scripps Ranch residence, it was important to the homeowners to have drought tolerant/low water and low maintenance plants. They had outgrown their need for a lawn, but still need wide and stable access through the backyard on either side of the existing patio. Flagstones set in mortar create a wide walk, are easy to keep clean, and create more of a garden feel compared to the existing concrete side walk. On one side of the garden the walk features an expanding bend which will allow for two small outdoor chairs, or one lounge chair.

A low keystone wall system was installed along the slope on the side of the house and replaced a low wall providing soil control for the Coral Tree. A low, stepped keystone wall was also installed along the back of the main yard.

After - Main Backyard

After - Main Backyard

After - Garden Area

After - Garden Area

Plants on site were selected in collaboration with the contractor and include, but are not limited to some of the following: Agave attenuata, Tecomaria capensis, Rosa mutabilis, Euryops tali, Coprosma repens 'Marble Queen', Crassula mulitcava, and Iresine herbstii 'Brilliantissima'. All plants were planted in either 1 or 5 gallon sizes, so they will need some time to fill in. Also note that today while photographing temperatures were roughly 90 degrees - so some of the plants look a little droopy.

Thanks so much to the homeowners and the team at Dream Builders Construction, its been a real pleasure working with all of you!