Planting
Plants chosen for the spot they are going in
Most failed planting is not a gardening failure, it is a matching failure — the wrong plant put in the wrong spot, then blamed for dying there. North Bay gardens throw a lot at a plant: heavy clay that holds water in winter and sets hard in summer, hillsides that drain in an afternoon, coastal fog on one side of a ridge and real heat on the other, deer that will eat almost anything young. So we start with the conditions and pick to them, favouring drought-tolerant and California-native material that will still look right in year five without being nursed through every summer. Then we do the part nobody sees: proper bed prep, soil amended where it needs it, planted at the correct depth, mulched, and put on irrigation before we leave.
Our Process
Read the Site
Sun, wind, drainage, soil, and slope — plus what already grows well there, which tells us more than a catalogue does.
Choose the Plants
A list you approve, with what each plant will do at maturity — not just what it looks like in a one-gallon pot today.
Prep and Plant
Beds dug over, soil amended, plants set at the right depth and spacing, then mulched.
Water It In
Drip run to each plant and the schedule set, because the first two summers decide whether planting establishes.