Mediterranean Garden Park

Sep 14, 2021

Mediterranean Garden Park | Paso Robles, CA

This beautiful Mediterranean-style landscape complements the design of the home and the idyllic rural Paso Robles setting. A large and meandering garden-style yard creates several passive and active spaces, including a formal courtyard with a fountain, rebuilt pergola, several viewing patios of pavers and decomposed granite, a swimming pool, a small pond, and stately field-grown trees. A newly designed guest parking area provides turnaround space, while pavers and plantings define the visitor entry.

The planting palette includes several deer-resistant varieties such as Mediterranean aromatics, California sages, wispy grasses, and colorful succulents. Mediterranean varietals such as Italian Stone Pine, field-grown Olives, and Italian Cypress provide stately definition at entry points while strategically framing views from within.

This intensive retrofit project made use of existing hardscape infrastructure to blend seamlessly with new features and patio areas to create a cohesive landscape. The functionality of the spaces works exceptionally well. At the same time, the beauty of the overall design creates a stunning, comfortable landscape.

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Verdant By Aged Oaks

Sep 12, 2021

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Verdant by Aged Oaks | Paso Robles, CA

This extensive landscape design-build project within a prestigious gated community brings a natural softness to a classic architectural styling. Sweeping curves gracefully blend masses of ornamental grasses, lavender, and other flowering and natives shrubs, as well as pedestrian paths and a lush lawn alongside the entry walk. White roses and rows of boxwood lend a touch of traditional formality near the house, while arching grasses soften edges and large blue agave lend year-round accents.

Landscape Design and Construction: Madrone Landscape

Madrone Landscape Santa Ysabel Oak Garden

Sea Bluff Vista

Aug 27, 2021

Sea Bluff Vista | Shell Beach, CA

This mid-century modern residence sits ocean bluff-side, where the physical embodiment of crisp, salty air finds its way into the landscape. A landscape treatment of low-maintenance succulents, grasses, paths, and ground covers is placed deliberately to ease the transition between a modern interior and a coastal exterior. It also features a beautiful olive tree, and plants designed to silhouette against the garden walls.

Winner of the CLCA Beautification Award for Small Residential Landscape in 2011, this fascinating landscape makes the most of a tight situation.

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Santa Ysabel Apartments

Aug 27, 2021

Santa Ysabel Apartments | Los Osos, CA

Focusing on ease of maintenance and low water use, Madrone designed and installed a complete upgrade to this sandy, neglected site.

Low-maintenance, drought-tolerant succulents and natives bloom year-round. Pathways lead through the residential complex, easily guiding residents to parking, laundry, and outdoor areas.

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Wine Country Sculpture Garden

Aug 24, 2021

Wine Country Sculpture Garden | Paso Robles, CA

Every angle of view and facet of construction has been thoroughly analyzed and beautifully executed as individual pieces of art work together to create a distinctive aesthetic all its own. Every line, radius, and proportion of the exquisite landscape is designed to connect and transition between the built and natural environment.

Rare and provocative plants lend color and texture to a palette that embodies feeling and purpose at every turn. From sculpture to hardscape, to plants, to finishes, every detail of this project is here for a reason. This form provides a true sense of place: dramatic and bold, yet positively harmonious.

Winner of the President’s Trophy for the 2009 “Best Residential Landscape in All Categories”, California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA) Statewide competition.