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Posted by kellyhill in Featured Articles, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Smart Controllers, Water Conservation on 12 30th, 2011 | No Comments
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Swan now has a Facebook page! Log in to your Facebook account and type in “Smart Water Application Now” into your search bar. When our page comes up be sure to like it. By liking our page you will recieve information and tips that could help you with your landscape. And if you have any...
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 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 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 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 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...
Posted by kellyhill in Doc Hill's Corner, Natives & CA Friendly Plants, Smart Controllers, Water Conservation on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
Attention Property Managers
Swan would like to invite you to our office for an educational meeting about Water Conservation in your landscape. We will go over the new technology in Weather Based Smart Controllers, the new High Efficiency Nozzles, Drought Tolerant Plant selection and other methods of how to cut back water use...