Expansive Midcentury Garden Design Ideas

Black Oak Mountain Vineyards
Black Oak Mountain Vineyards
Meraki Create LLCMeraki Create LLC
Brad’s vision for Black Oak Mountain Vineyards was to cultivate a sustainable, organic landscape that guests and visitors would be nurtured by. You’ll get a ‘feeling’ when you visit you won’t know quite what it is, but you won’t want to leave. Our team worked with Brad to see his vision come to life making Black Oak Mountain Vineyards a Couples Choice award winner! Relatively new, and pristine, with unusual desert mountain landscaping and architecture. We integrated an arid desertscape into the natural setting around this 150 acre estate property designing several ceremony sites and photo oportunities to capture the best moments of your life!
Encinitas Exterior Façade Update
Encinitas Exterior Façade Update
Classic Home ImprovementsClassic Home Improvements
This Encinitas home was transformed with a smooth Santa Barbara stucco finish with black window and door trim. This mid-century modern design has these homeowners one with nature and enjoying the panoramic views on this surrounding deck!
Riverside Sanctuary
Riverside Sanctuary
Salt + Dirt | Outside DesignSalt + Dirt | Outside Design
The backyard, quite visible through every window facing north, is a steep hillside between the home and the driveway descending from the county road above, and Highway 82 not much further. Engineered walls of concrete block ensure the hillside stays where it needs to, but the view was - meh. Too sterile. A meritage of cultivar creeping pines and spruces, cascading vines, variegated shrubs, and a diversity of ornamental grasses and workhorse flowering perennials turned an eye sore into a multitude of beautiful vignettes. Why NOT make the wood pile beautiful?
Skytop Road, Encino
Skytop Road, Encino
Weeds Garden Design Build LLCWeeds Garden Design Build LLC
Custom designed and poured concrete pavers, salt-finished, with a mid century feel...
Black Oak Mountain Vineyards
Black Oak Mountain Vineyards
Meraki Create LLCMeraki Create LLC
Brad’s vision for Black Oak Mountain Vineyards was to cultivate a sustainable, organic landscape that guests and visitors would be nurtured by. You’ll get a ‘feeling’ when you visit you won’t know quite what it is, but you won’t want to leave. Our team worked with Brad to see his vision come to life making Black Oak Mountain Vineyards a Couples Choice award winner! Relatively new, and pristine, with unusual desert mountain landscaping and architecture. We integrated an arid desertscape into the natural setting around this 150 acre estate property designing several ceremony sites and photo oportunities to capture the best moments of your life!
Landscaping
Landscaping
Picture Perfect LawnPicture Perfect Lawn
This yard was completely redone including a huge piece of synthetic lawn, 12 tons of rock, drip irrigation, drought friendly plants, and a walkway of pavers was added throughout the yard.
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsHursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors
A bluestone stepper path connects the front and rear spaces. Two large spheres are nested into the landscape bed as an homage to mid-century design. Intimate seating and a gas fire pit are visible in the background.
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsHursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors
The entry monument greets visitors and guests while the home peeks out in the distance. The signage strongly reflects the architecture as an integrated landscape design component.
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsHursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors
Low-profile landscape plantings under the arching redbud create focus on the front entry while walking through the garden. Rectilinear containers amplify the mid-century modern lines of the home.
San Rafael Eichler Front and Back Yard Remodel
San Rafael Eichler Front and Back Yard Remodel
Dig Your Garden Landscape DesignDig Your Garden Landscape Design
The "Gracie Modern Arbors" (by TerraTrellis) offer eye-catching focal points. Three installed to bring interest and needed height over a long pathway ramp with grape vines. Another frames a stairway to the hillside with a flowering Passion vine. The sloped hillsides were revamped to include low-water and low-maintenance plants that include CA natives, flowing grasses, other Mediterranean plants and several succulents.
Riverside Sanctuary
Riverside Sanctuary
Salt + Dirt | Outside DesignSalt + Dirt | Outside Design
Peonies in the foreground; elderberries; ornamental grasses; beautiful seed heads left in place to capture dazzling sunlight. The evergreens truly play together - outstretched limbs of spruce in ice blue, feathers juniper boughs taking flight in silver green. The panic grasses send up pink seed heads in mid summer, the leaves become burgundy, early autumn. Always change and evolving amid the seasons in a well designed border.
Riverside Sanctuary
Riverside Sanctuary
Salt + Dirt | Outside DesignSalt + Dirt | Outside Design
Despite its lower place in the hierarchy, the retaining walls were intensively designed, as they would be the view through every northern window. Designing with cultivar evergreens, we could compose these gardens with confidence in the exact size and shape of each evergreen - pines, junipers, and spruces. To marry the evergreen privacy forest together, taller grasses and deciduous shrubs meander between them. The steps in the middle not only break up the line, but offer dignity to the gardeners that tend these walls - entry into the beds is easy, safe,
San Rafael Eichler - Mid-Century Modern  Back & Front Landscape Remodel
San Rafael Eichler - Mid-Century Modern Back & Front Landscape Remodel
Dig Your Garden Landscape DesignDig Your Garden Landscape Design
The front and back areas surrounding this Eichler home were updated with the mid-century modern design aesthetic in mind. The back landscape includes concrete retaining walls and pathways and the "Gracie Modern Arbors" (by TerraTrellis) provide eye-catching focal points, three installed to bring interest and needed height over a long pathway ramp with grape vines. Another frames a stairway to the hillside with a flowering Passion vine. The sloped hillsides were revamped to include low-water and low-maintenance plants that include CA natives, flowing grasses, other Mediterranean plants and several succulents. The Front landscape takes on a minimalist design with architectural Barrel Cactus, Artichoke Agaves, stately Thatching Reeds, a Blue Palm (Brahea 'Clara') a Mediterranean Fan Palm and other easy-care plants. The corten steel sculpture offers a striking focal point adjacent to the front doorway.
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Less Is More.....Unless It's A Bore
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsHursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors
A low-profile planting combination of Hosta, Liriope, Coral Bells are among the featured plants expertly integrated into the back yard environment.

Expansive Midcentury Garden Design Ideas

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