Sidewalk Garden (After)

The landscape installation for the Newport Sidewalk Garden is complete. The formal sidewalk planting includes an evergreen Euonymus hedge, Ajuga 'Burgundy Glow' groundcover and pink flowering Gaura in the middle. We also decided to update the brick planters attached to the house and went with a drought tolerant, low maintenance succulent landscape.

Newport Beach Sidewalk Garden (Before & Plant Delivery Day)

Here is the start of a recent project in Newport Beach. The homeowner decided to take out the concrete parkway and install a garden in front of their house. They typical Newport lot is long and skinny with limited yard space, so the use of the parkway as a garden is a great way to green up the street and have a small oasis in your front of your house.

The parkway is technically owned by the City of Newport Beach, so the tree was selected, submitted to the City and approved. The Homeowner then paid for the tree and the City came and installed it. This street currently consists of large Magnolia grandiflora trees that are causing issues with ripping up the sidewalk and produce a lot of litter. Slowly this block of the neighborhood has began to replace the Magnolias with Pittosporum crassifolium (a tree I selected for a new house down the street 9 years ago) and slowly we are making a streetscape change that better suits the neighborhood and beach conditions.

If you have an empty parkway or a tree already existing that you don't like give me a call or send me an email and we can contact your local City, request a new tree and design a parkway garden to green up your neighborhood.


Stay posted for the AFTER pictures.