Actual Art brings fresh expression to landscape design for Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Offering sustainable landscapes of distinctive style, Actual Art features Rock Gardens, California Native Meadows, Edible Landscapes, Japanese Courtyards and the Classic Mediterranean Style. Every design by Actual Art Landscape is an original composition, custom-made for your home.
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I show you my Portfolio and describe different styles of landscape, plant palettes and choices in hardscape construction.
I ask your budget for the project so I can design a landscape that you can afford to install and maintain.
A landscape is more than a collection of plants.
A landscape is an artifact, an intentional construction designed to create emotional impact.
A landscape provides a setting, a stage for your home.
Landscape should enhance your house, reflect your style, provide you with outdoor "rooms" for play, work or retreat and offer beautiful views through every window and door.
I ask your budget for the project so I can design a landscape that you can afford to install and maintain.
A landscape is more than a collection of plants.
A landscape is an artifact, an intentional construction designed to create emotional impact.
A landscape provides a setting, a stage for your home.
Landscape should enhance your house, reflect your style, provide you with outdoor "rooms" for play, work or retreat and offer beautiful views through every window and door.
I offer different styles of Landscape Design, such as Mediterranean, sculptural Rock Gardens, Japanese Courtyards, California Natives and even inventive Edible Landscape.
The style is chosen to suit your taste, your budget and the particular characteristics of your site.
For instance, a hot dry location in full sun calls out for striking succulents amid boulders and gravel, but a site graced with Oak trees may be better suited for a classic Mediterranean style, especially favored within Santa Barbara and Montecito, because it showcases favorite drought tolerant plants.
The style is chosen to suit your taste, your budget and the particular characteristics of your site.
For instance, a hot dry location in full sun calls out for striking succulents amid boulders and gravel, but a site graced with Oak trees may be better suited for a classic Mediterranean style, especially favored within Santa Barbara and Montecito, because it showcases favorite drought tolerant plants.
A successful landscape begins with a vision.
When I consult with you, we create that vision together.
We find out how you want your landscape to look and the purposes it should serve.
Do you prefer a traditional or contemporary style?
Would you like to see formal flower beds bordering a patio or winding trails through California sages and Ceanothus?
Will you entertain outdoors, play game with the kids or sit in a quiet gazebo to watch the birds?
Would you like a vegetable garden or a fish pond or a treehouse?
When I consult with you, we create that vision together.
We find out how you want your landscape to look and the purposes it should serve.
Do you prefer a traditional or contemporary style?
Would you like to see formal flower beds bordering a patio or winding trails through California sages and Ceanothus?
Will you entertain outdoors, play game with the kids or sit in a quiet gazebo to watch the birds?
Would you like a vegetable garden or a fish pond or a treehouse?
Everyone nowadays wants a drought tolerant landscape, but some people think they have very few options: a scattering of succulents surrounded with mulch or a yard full of pavers.
Many folks simply settle for a dead lawn and dry dirt, posting a sign from the City that reads, "Gold is the new green."
Such austerity is really not necessary, since a successfully drought tolerant landscape can be composed from thousands of different plants, combined in all sorts of ways from formal to informal, austere to elegant.
Many folks simply settle for a dead lawn and dry dirt, posting a sign from the City that reads, "Gold is the new green."
Such austerity is really not necessary, since a successfully drought tolerant landscape can be composed from thousands of different plants, combined in all sorts of ways from formal to informal, austere to elegant.
I'm an artist.
I've been drawing since childhood, making pictures in all sorts of media: pencils, pen, paint, crayon and collage.
I've also built scale models, designed clothes and quilts, made greeting cards and illustrations, and grown lots and lots of gorgeous gardens.
Every day, I wake with fresh ideas.
As an artist, I offer something different from the others in the field of landscape design.
I create whole works of art.
From wood, water, rocks and plants, I craft a complete composition, one cohesive construction, in which every color, shape and size compliments the others as an harmonious whole, one big picture that wraps around the home.
I've been drawing since childhood, making pictures in all sorts of media: pencils, pen, paint, crayon and collage.
I've also built scale models, designed clothes and quilts, made greeting cards and illustrations, and grown lots and lots of gorgeous gardens.
Every day, I wake with fresh ideas.
As an artist, I offer something different from the others in the field of landscape design.
I create whole works of art.
From wood, water, rocks and plants, I craft a complete composition, one cohesive construction, in which every color, shape and size compliments the others as an harmonious whole, one big picture that wraps around the home.
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