This home is one of the oldest houses in Tubac, and after a tasteful restoration, it deserved an amazing landscape to match. This design comes from Wilder Landscape Architects, the foremost native plant architect firm in Pima County, and was implemented by us. Featuring only plants locally native to the Tubac area, hydroseeding with a native seed mix, rainwater harvesting basins, and a smart irrigation system, we are quite proud of this one.

Originally mostly turf, these clients wanted rainwater harvesting basins as well as an area to play with pets/grandkids, so we designed this Tucson Water Rebate project with deep basins around the perimeter and a large shallow basin with playground wood chips. With native plants blooming year round, this yard is a constant flurry of butterflies and birds. 

This was a very fun little Tucson Water rainwater rebate project where the client gave us the free rein to do whatever we wanted. The result is a LOT of plants in a little space. Will it be crowded when the plants fill in? Yes, but we designed it in a way where the plants will coexist beautifully. It's already attracting butterflies and birds just days after planting. Plant highlights include: Whitestem milkweed (Asclepias albicans), Sugarbush (Rhus ovata), Agave simplex (grown from seed by us), Trixis californica, Bush muhly (Muhlenbergia porteri), four species of penstemons (superbus, eatonii, parryi, and pseudospectabilis), plus many of the usual suspects. It will be fun to watch this one over the coming years.

This customer is an avid birder, so we designed this yard as a Tucson Audubon Habitat at Home. It is also a Tucson Water Rainwater Harvesting rebate project, with over 5,000 gallons of passive rainwater storage potential - piped from the gutters and as sheet flow. This yard will continue to improve as habitat for humans, birds, insects, and lizards as the catclaw acacia, ironwood, desert hackberries, desert willows, chollas, and all of the rest of the plants mature.

This is another beautiful design by Wilder Landscape Architects installed by us. Most of the plants are dormant at the moment, but the space is still alive with birds and pollinators. We'll update it when the plants wake up in the spring.

This neighborhood has many free roaming cats, so this client asked us to build them a landscape that their lizards would be able to thrive in, as well as birds and insects. In addition to native plants, we created boulder arrangements with hiding spots lizards can retreat to at the first sign of a cat.