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Monrovia

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Project Summary

This San Gabriel Valley backyard started as an overgrown lawn and rose garden. By utilizing the turf removal rebate program, the lawn was replaced with a raised bed vegetable garden, California native plants, a decomposed granite patio with space for outdoor dining, natural play areas for the kids, and an extensive home orchard. The orchard now includes peach, plum, pluot, avocado, grapefruit, pomegranate, passionfruit, pineapple guava, and cane berries, complementing the existing orange, Meyer lemon, and mandarin trees already on the property.

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Location Details

LOCATIONMONROVIA
PROJECT AREA3,000 SQ FT
SUNSET ZONEZONE 21
CHILL HOURS157 HOURS
WINTER SUN8 HRS/DAY
SUMMER SUN10 HRS/DAY
ANNUAL RAINFALL20 INCHES

Project Goals

  • Abundant food production for a young family, with year-round fruit and vegetable harvests
  • Backyard gathering space for outdoor dining and seating around a firepit
  • Capture rainwater using berms and swales, creating natural play opportunities for young children with the resulting contours
  • Extensive plantings of California natives to create habitat for pollinators and ensure year-round flowering
Pergola & outdoor dining table on decomposed granite patio
Pergola and outdoor dining table on a decomposed granite patio

The thirsty lawn was replaced with newly installed raised beds, a decomposed granite path, flowering California natives, and potted blueberries to complement the existing orange and mandarin trees in that corner of the property.

Before
Vegetable garden accessed by decomposed granite pathway
After
Rock-lined swale to capture rainwater & facilitate planting of a rain garden along its border; many of the rocks came from site prep of the backyard.
Rock-lined swale to capture rainwater and facilitate the planting of a rain garden along its border; many of the rocks were sourced from the backyard site prep
Vegetable garden accessed by decomposed granite pathway and cordon steel bird feeder
Vegetable garden accessed by decomposed granite pathway with corten steel bird feeder
Fire pit on the patio surrounded by a pollinator garden, featuring California native plants like salvia and artemisia, chosen for their aroma.
Patio surrounded by pollinator garden, featuring California natives like salvia and artemisia, chosen for their aroma
Kids' garden accessed through a passionfruit archway, with a butterfly garden and cane berries along the cedar fence in the back
Kids’ garden accessed through a passionfruit archway, with a butterfly garden and cane berries along the cedar fence in the back

Photography by Gina Sabatella Photography

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