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Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Featured Articles, Landscape Gallery, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 11 2nd, 2011 | No Comments
Taylor Residence, West L.A.
This landscape consists of Succulents, Lavender, Carex Grass, Rock Mulch and Wood Mulch, and Boulders, with a couple of existing Washingtonia Robusta Palms = All drought Tolerant.
Posted by kellyhill in Customer Stories, Featured Articles, Landscape Gallery, Mulching, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 11 2nd, 2011 | No Comments
Chang Residence, Rancho Cucamonga
We renovated thier existing landscape and irrigation system. The drought tolerant landscape consists of gravel mulch, new low water use shrubs and trees, and a new Weather Based Smart Irrigation Controller.
Posted by kellyhill in Buffalo Grass, Featured Articles, Homeowner Projects, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 11 2nd, 2011 | No Comments
Newly Planted Buffalo Grass doing well!
'UC Verde' Buffalo Grass just planted
This residence in Redlands had an all brown/dead lawn that we removed. After a couple cycles of weed killing, and then adding soil amendements a month and a half later, we planted the ‘UC Verde’ Buffalo Grass plugs.
This picture was taken...
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 Buffalo Grass, Featured Articles, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 03 3rd, 2011 | No Comments
Swan Featured in Landscape Management Magazine for Buffalo Grass
Buffalograss gets fresh attention for California lawns
31 Aug, 2009
By: Ron Hall
LM Direct
Once, when asked how much water a buffalograss lawn would require to stay alive, turfgrass expert Dr. Bill Knoop, now retired from Texas A&M, quipped it would need just about as much as a buffalo can give...
Posted by kellyhill in Commercial Projects, Featured Articles, Landscape Gallery, Turf Substitutes, Water Conservation on 12 6th, 2010 | No Comments
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...
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...