Portfolio - click on the pictures below > South Park, San Diego Greywater Oasis (14)
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lush palms and rain harvesting earthworks
Rain harvesting earthworks creates contors to capture the rain water; and the mulch and river rock retains that moisture into well the dry season. No additional irrigation is needed as drought tolerant plants survive the summer without water.
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native and drought tolerant plants
California Lilac in glorious bloom needs little to no additional water once established.
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South Park San Diego, Rockrose
Beatiful rockrose adds colour to the landscape and thrives in San Diego weather conditions. This laundry to landscape (L2L) system maintains a lush, tropical beach feel for the residents of this duplex in trendy South Park. Fruit trees also provide pears, oranges, lemons and limes. This system was installed in 2009 and has maintained the landscape without any additional water.
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Bananas!
Banana tree is irrigated by greywater and provides delicious, sweet bananas!
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South Park, San Diego, Queen palms and earthworks
Rain harvesting earthworks creates contors to capture the rain water; and the mulch and river rock retains that moisture into well the dry season. No additional irrigation is needed as drought tolerant plants survive the summer without water.
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Greywater controls.jpg
The 'on/off' control valve allows the residents to send the washing machine greywater out to the landscape, or turn it off if they need to was with bleach or any other materials that may harm the plants and trees. The piping was positioned underneath the threshold as to protect the pipe and keep it out of the way.
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South Park, San Diego, tropical view
Lush planting of food producing banana, pear, orange trees; papyrus, and queen palms that shade and cool the house from the sun's heat.
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