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Posted by kellyhill in Carousel, Doc Hill's Corner, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Water Conservation on 12 30th, 2011 | No Comments
Roof Garden @ Biola University
This garden can be found on the roof top of the new Theology Building at Biola University. It is meant for the students and faculty to enjoy betweeen classes or during their spare time while on campus. All plants chosen for this roof garden are low water use plants and are irrigated by a Netafim drip...
Posted by admin in Carousel, Commercial Projects, Doc Hill's Corner, Featured Articles, Homeowner Projects, Turf Substitutes on 07 3rd, 2011 | No Comments
Water Conservation
Swan Water Conservation
Down the Drain: You’d be shocked to discover the oceans of water that we waste every single day.
Water we have long taken for granted is being depleted at an alarming rate, at huge cost to the planet. Unless...
Posted by kellyhill in Buffalo Grass, Doc Hill's Corner, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Turf Substitutes on 06 16th, 2011 | No Comments
Buffalo Grass planted at The Colony, Murrieta
The Colony is a 1,500 home, active adult, golf course community located in Murrieta, CA. The landscape commity found our website and contacted us about cutting back their landscape water use. They had a 27,000 square foot area of existing grass that they wanted demolished and plant Buffalo Grass...
Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 05 26th, 2011 | No Comments
Rebate + Drought Tolerant Design
Before
This homeowner attended our Sustainable Claremont presentation at the Claremont Colleges. She called us up asking about designing a new landscape for her front and back yards for her home in Covina. She also wanted to know about the current rebate programs for the city of Covina. We...
Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Doc Hill's Corner, Landscape Gallery, Mulching, Water Conservation on 05 5th, 2011 | No Comments
Customer Review from Sherman Oaks
“When Forest Hill created the design for our landscaping, I was amazed at the professional presentation but even more by the variety of plants and the creativity in the design. Now that the plan has been implemented, it is even better than I had expected! I didn’t realize how often I would...
Posted by kellyhill in Doc Hill's Corner, Featured Articles, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Mulching, Water Conservation on 02 26th, 2011 | No Comments
Before and After Pictures
This house in Sherman Oaks wanted a completely new landscape. The owner of the house wanted a drought tolerant landscape that would save her money but still look green. She left the design up to Swan. We sat down and went over all details of the design with her and even put the pictures of the...
Posted by admin in Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Water Conservation on 11 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Beautiful and Practical
After 6 Months
Here’s a Swan Designed showcase project that really brings together many of the water saving ideas that experts are suggesting to the public.
TREES: We chose to use a California Live Oak. This tree was the main focus of the landscape, and really helped capture the beautiful...
Posted by admin in Buffalo Grass, Carousel, Doc Hill's Corner, Featured Articles, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Turf Substitutes on 10 20th, 2010 | No Comments
Let the Buffalo Grass Roam!
New: Receive Swan H2o’s BUFFALO GRASS Green Paper. Click here.
Buffalo Grass Saves 50% of water consumption
Just out research at UC Davis and UC Riverside has produced a beautiful and amazing new grass variety that that reduces water consumption by 50% or more.
This drought tolerant standout...
Posted by kellyhill in Commercial Projects, Doc Hill's Corner, Featured Articles, Mulching, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 09 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Pozzolan Treatment for the Cities of Palmdale and Barstow
Swan was chosen by the company Johnson Controls Inc., along with Turf Time West, to conduct the Drill and Fill application of Pozzolan into a few parks located in the city of Palmdale and Barstow.
Pozzolan is a 26 million year old volcanic ash from the Lassen Volcano in Northern California and Nevada. When...
Posted by kellyhill in Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Water Conservation on 07 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Award Winning Landscapes
The home in Chino that SWAN re-landscaped for the PBS series called “Getting Native”, recently won an award from the city of Chino. The Award was called “The Mayors Home Beautification Award”.
The award winning landscape is all native and drought tolerant planting.
These...