Landscaping in Ross, CA

Ross gardens tend to be established, wooded, and worth treating carefully. Many have mature oaks and redwoods on them, and that changes the rules: you cannot cut roots freely, you cannot pile soil against a trunk, and you cannot irrigate a native oak like a lawn without doing it real harm.

So the work here is about doing less, more precisely. Planting selected for dry shade rather than fighting it, paths and flagstone laid so they sit around roots instead of through them, and maintenance that keeps a mature garden legible rather than shearing everything into shapes. Where hardscape is wanted, permeable surfaces and stepping pads usually sit better on this ground than a solid slab.

Call (415) 717-9584 to talk through planting, hardscape, or a maintenance schedule for a garden in Ross.