We are a landscape design and construction management firm specializing in water conserving residential landscape projects. Robert Cornell is an award winning landscape designer and former licensed landscape contractor with over 35 years of experience based in Pasadena, California. We can help you make your outdoors beautiful and water wise as well!
For more than 35 years we have been committed to environmental sensitivity in the design & construction of home gardens. This corresponds to the trends known as sustainable landscaping, xeriscape and water wise landscaping. What these approaches have in common are the conservation of resources such as water & energy and lowering maintenance costs and greenwaste.
For more than 35 years we have been committed to environmental sensitivity in the design & construction of home gardens. This corresponds to the trends known as sustainable landscaping, xeriscape and water wise landscaping. What these approaches have in common are the conservation of resources such as water & energy and lowering maintenance costs and greenwaste.
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We are having a nice rainy season so far this year, but we are no way out of our perilous water situation. There seems to be some consensus that California has enjoyed an unusually wet period during its recent development. There has been talk about the possibility of California entering a mega drought that might last decades or even longer.
With our heavier than normal rainy season, we now need to switch from being concerned about drought to keeping our slopes from sliding down hill under the onslaught of heavy rains that supersaturate the soil. EVALUATE the current slope conditions. It is not uncommon that homeowners in their concern about fire hazards have eliminated all the native woody brush on the slopes around their house.
Drought tolerant landscapes can take advantage of beautiful plants originating from all of the Mediterranean climates of the world. This means here in Southern California that we can enjoy our own unique and beautiful California native plants, amazing succulents from South Africa, great flowering shrubs from Australia and, of course, fragrant lavenders and other wonderful shrubs and herbs from the Mediterranean region.
The Wilkinson garden features a wide sampling of plants native to South Africa, which has a climate similar to our own here in Southern California. The Rice garden situated in the historical Fairfax district of Los Angeles is a classic LA Spanish style house with a garden to match. We could not be happier with the landscaping Robert Cornell did for us.
In many ways the old tradition of having a rolling lawn around your house has outlived its time. For starters a lawn in our climate consumes about 48 inches of water to properly maintain each year. But before you go ahead and let that lawn brown out, let me give you a bit of advice, based on many years of experience which includes some costly mistakes I have made in the past.
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