Hillside landscaping — planted to hold, designed to live.
Multi-tier terracing, drought-tolerant palettes, and irrigation engineered for the slope and the soil.
A hillside that binds itself together over time.
Hillside landscape isn't ornamental — it's structural. Roots hold the slope. The right palette in the right place protects the retaining walls from saturation, the paths from washout, and the home above from creep. We plant with that in mind first; the visual reward comes with it.
Three planting approaches.
California native
Ceanothus, manzanita, sage, native grasses — low-water, deep-rooted, climate-honest.
Mediterranean
Olive, rosemary, lavender, citrus — the look that fits Calabasas-style architecture and survives the dry season.
Modern minimal
Restrained palettes — agaves, ornamental grasses, structured succulents — paired with concrete and board-form walls.
Slope-tuned watering — not a lawn schedule on a hill.
Hillside irrigation can't be set-and-forget. We zone by slope, sun, and species, use drip wherever it works, and tune emitters to keep water in the root zone instead of running off the face. The hill gets the water it actually needs — and the storm drain doesn't get the rest.
Have a hillside that needs planting?
Let's read the slope and design a palette that actually holds.