Oak Woodland Deer Park
How do you design garden space when the site conditions demand that nature prevails?
This property bordering the Walnut Creek Open Space has a beautiful outlook but is hot, hilly, challenging to irrigate and too awkward to fence. Deer, turkeys, raccoons, and squirrels consider it their own. The solution: Use good-looking plants unpalatable to critters and tolerant of summer drought!
On the open space verge, a California native palette of grasses and sages merges with the distant landscape and creates a serene garden space under Valley Oaks. Near the house, a carefully curated selection of aromatic and resilient Mediterranean plants provides structure, color and cooling greenery.