Mission Ridge Neighborhood

• Owner, a landscape designer, turned the property’s biggest liability—its steeply sloped backyard—into its biggest asset by terracing it.
• Everywhere you look, your eyes rest on something interesting: pond, outdoor fireplace, large container plants, statuary, deck, curving paths, and cement benches
• No grass front or back.  Plants are native or adapted. Beds are mulched twice a year.
• Short walls of brick and stone outline each bed in front. A flagstone patio welcomes visitors to the front entry.

• Short walls of stone surround large beds of evergreen shrubs and colorful perennials that dominate the turfgrass yard in front.
• Owner replaced grass in back with a flagstone patio, an enlarged perennial bed, and a colorful water garden with a fountain to create a calming environment.
• Front and backyards are watered by drip irrigation.
• Xylosma shrubs create a backyard wall. Teak furniture from Bali makes the patio unique.

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