Law Estate Wines

When visitors meet the gates of Law Estate Wines, large swaths of purple sage and bright red Everett’s Choice fuchsia are there to greet them. Through the simple, yet striking, weathered steel gates, the drive up to the tasting room offers gorgeous views of the surrounding hillscape. Once at the top, the main landscape feature becomes incredible apparent: a massive corten steel planter filled with rows and rows of mass-planted California native and Mediterranean plant species spanning all the way up the stairs to the entry of the tasting room. Once at the top of the stairs, visitors can look down on all the plant rows from above, and enjoy the plantings and seating area on the upper patio.

Entry Landscape Design and Install: Madrone Landscape. Entry Gate Design: Lutsko & Associates.

Tasting Room Design: Lutsko & Associates, Bar Architects. Install: Madrone Landscape

Epoch Estate Wines | Templeton, CA

Understated and elegant, the landscape at Epoch Estate Winery tasting room takes the visitor on a trip to a much simpler time and place.  The meticulous renovation of the original York Mountain Winery, completed in 2015, brought an updated aesthetic to a historic landmark. In the landscape, a new visitor parking area and entry path allow for the introduction of modern touches like weathered steel stairways, gravel-paved walkways and patio spaces and landscape lighting. Live Oak Trees were transplanted from within the 143 acre estate by the dozen, while rock walls, with material also sourced from on-site, reinforce the sense of history.  The resulting landscape is a spectacular setting to enjoy a picnic lunch and some of the area’s finest wines.

Landscape Design: ACLA (Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture). Landscape Install: Madrone Landscape

Hillside Coastal Color Garden | Grover Beach, CA

This custom landscape project includes an impressive number of features packed into a hillside site. One large, curved, vertical board-form concrete wall defines the boundary of a lush planting area interspersed with sculptures and seating areas. Multiple pathways meander throughout the landscape, helping to define and connect various zones. A range of materials, including concrete pavers, boulders, cobble, and decomposed granite all work together to provide a cohesive experience yet defined zones. Below the concrete wall, another dry-stack stone wall is infused creeping and flowering plants that spill toward the pathway and dry creek below. 

Landscape Design & Construction: Madrone Landscape