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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