Not everyone has a steep front yard -- always difficult to manage -- and this Mediterranean design won a 2014 Merit Award from APLD for designer Patricia St. John, APLD, of Berkeley, CA.
One of the homeowners had polio as a child and wanted easy access to the front door. St. John designed a new front walkway with wide landings, stone retaining walls, railings, and secondary random-cut bluestone paths that permit the owners to stand on fairly level areas next the garden beds for maintenance.
The plant palette was also designed for ease ... deer-resistant and drought-tolerant as well: lavenders, rosemaries, sages, thymes, penstsemons, rock roses, and succulents, among others.
Even better, it's a west-facing hillside with views overlooking the San Francisco Bay ... sitting on the steps in the evening would be a pure delight.
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