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Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Water Conservation on 07 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Award Winning Landscapes

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...
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Posted by kellyhill in Commercial Projects, Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Pozzolan

Pozzolan
                                                                                 Pozzolan is a 26 million year old volcanic ash from the Lassen Volcano in Northern California and Nevada.  When this volcano would erupt, the...
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Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Water Conservation on 06 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Mr. Brown’s House in Rancho Cucamonga

Mr. Brown’s House in Rancho Cucamonga
This landscape is very small and simple. We used California Natives as well as other Drought Tolerant plants.  This landscape feautres Cobbles and Decomposed Granite. A single valve drip system with Rain Bird XF Drip Tubing. The controller use is the ESP-SMT Rain Bird Weather Based Smart Controller.   A...
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Posted by admin in Carousel, Commercial Projects, Featured Articles, Homeowner Projects, Turf Substitutes on 06 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Water Conservation

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...
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Posted by admin in Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Water Conservation on 05 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Beautiful and Practical

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...
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Posted by kellyhill in Doc Hill's Corner, Homeowner Projects, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Smart Controllers on 05 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Watch us on T.V. every Monday Night

Watch us on T.V. every Monday Night
We are excited to announce that Swan will be a part of a television series on PBS (KVCR-TV). PBS, along with the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, is putting together a series of 13 episodes about California Native Plantings. The series, titled “Growing Native”, will be similar to a home make-over...
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Posted by kellyhill in Buffalo Grass, Featured Articles, Homeowner Projects, Natives & CA Friendly Plants on 12 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Watch Our Buffalo Grass Grow

Watch Our Buffalo Grass Grow
The new Drought Tolerant Buffalo Grass takes about 3 months to fully fill in. Unlike sod, where you can just roll it out, ‘UC Verde’ Buffalo Grass is planted. The grass comes in 1 inch plugs that are planted about 9 inches to 1 foot apart from eachother. Once the grass is fully filled in,...
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