A Water Efficient Front Yard Landscape Tour | Xeriscape Landscaping Ideas

[@susinok]

This garden is beautiful! It compliments the modern lines of the house. I love the granite loops.

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you for your kind comment! We will continue to show more interesting gardens on our channel.

[@heathermcelroy7171]

This is a great example of how to revamp a garden for low water use and style! Especially in our hot CA central valley. 😊

[@JohnandBobs]

We really think drought and heat tolerant is the way to go in the central valley! Thanks for the comment. 🌱

[@pegbert12]

I thoroughly enjoy these landscape tours, and I hope we get to see the various yards again as they fill in. "Head-Shake Cam" was pretty entertaining.

[@bubbles6124]

This is really beautiful. Very clean and neat! This goes to show you that you can have beauty and be water wise without having to plant everything succulents and cactus. Hi from California High Desert. My next addition is a Chinese Pistache. They tolerate the heat very well and give us the best fall color here. Yes please keep on posting your tours. You do marvelous work.

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you for your kind comment. We try to show that xeriscape doesn't have to be all cacti! Very wise to go heat/drought tolerant in your area!

[@sandradombi]

Loving the garden tours. Love the details around materials and how to run water and lights while saving the client money.

[@JohnandBobs]

We hope to bring you more videos like this in the future! Thank you.

[@marthabradas8873]

brilliant !!! love it! plz do more garden tours!

[@JohnandBobs]

You got it!👍

[@susandevine3907]

Great garden tour! Yes, definitely do some more. I’m in So. California, so this was very interesting and relevant.

[@JohnandBobs]

Will do! We are located in central California, so for the most part our videos are shot in the area (sometimes northern or southern ca.) ☀🌱

[@yeyatatiana2076]

very cool! love the mix of materials, the simplicity of the design - although i know how much thought goes into selecting the right plants! beautifully executed

[@JohnandBobs]

Yes! Sometimes seemingly simple designs require the most planning. Thank you for you kind comment. 🌱

[@christinepalomovideos]

I love these tours! Thank you!

[@JohnandBobs]

We’re so glad! Thanks for watching ☺️🌱

[@dianemcarthur1523]

Absolutely love your projects.

[@JohnandBobs]

We are so glad to hear that! :)

[@ElsaMorrison-p2m]

This is a great example of how to revamp a garden for low water use and style! Especially in our hot CA central valley.

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you! We are glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@imaginecastles]

Love it!

[@JohnandBobs]

We're glad!

[@rodrigocalderon-aragon7328]

I wish you posted more videos, waiting a week for one feels too long!! I guess your business is not KZbin itself 😂. I asked all around and no one seems to make that fence color; dragons breath. Is it a paint or stain (transparent, semi solid)? And where do you get it? Thank you in advance!

[@JohnandBobs]

We thank you for your support, maybe if we had a bigger team we could post more often- but we are still mostly a small, locally owned business at heart! Dragon's Breath is a Benjamin Moore color. Benjamin Moore is good paint, but a little more expensive than others. You can search Dragon's Breath Paint and find the code for it. Go to Home Depot or similar, provide them that code and you can get the exact Dragons Breath color in another brand like Behr.

[@judiastadurian3241]

Very nice! What is the ground cover did you use? Is it Kurapia?

[@JohnandBobs]

It is Kurapia! We have talked about it a lot recently on the channel, so we decided not to mention it this week. 😆

[@DirtygardenCA]

Very nice, how big do you expect those Salvia Greggi's to get? I planted two red autumn sages early spring, they are just now starting to explode with blooms. Love the dragon's breath fencing. Nice camera work, Chip.

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you! This special cultivar of Salvia greggii only gets about 2' tall and wide. We'll pass on your praise to Chip via bully rubs.

[@dravenq6928]

More please 🙏🏼

[@JohnandBobs]

We'll do it for you!

[@nathangonzales3438]

Great video.

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you! We appreciate the support. 🌱

[@geem.5286]

Drought tolerance doesn't have to look like a desert. Smart, functional and classy. Could you give the name of the ground cover? Thanks.

[@JohnandBobs]

You are right! The ground cover at this site is Kurapia.

[@geem.5286]

Thank you!@@JohnandBobs

[@TiffanyManifestGreatThings44]

This edging is impeccable…what do you use for the edging that doesn’t change its shape when in the sun ?

[@bayparents]

Beautiful garden! What gallon size was the non fruiting olive tree and where did you get it from?

[@davidgarwood7858]

Yes, show us how you overseed please.

[@JohnandBobs]

We have a few videos on this, hopefully this helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5yZkKBqgbOElc0si=brIuFYGbBjPBRedl

[@tennerfive7104]

did you have any issues with HOA when designing front yards like these? any tips to share in regards dealing with HOAs? maybe a video that can be made to help viewers navigate HOAs, if you have any! Thanks.

[@JohnandBobs]

In this garden there were no HOA issues. It is common that the HOA approve our plans prior to the actual installation. At and right after Garden/Landscape plan submission is the best time to work with the HOA and address all concerns. - John

[@tennerfive7104]

many thanks@@JohnandBobs

[@tammycampbell2989]

Love this look!! are those olive trees? Can you recommend a non fruit olive that gets slightly larger than those? We live by Sacramento, hot here!We are redoing our front smaller landscaping

[@JohnandBobs]

Thank you! Yes they are, most of the projects on our channel that feature olive trees, are fruitless! There are many varieties of fruitless olive trees, they should all do well in hot areas and are pretty drought tolerant. We live in zone 9 too! The best known variety of fruitless Olive is Swan Hill, which are also the most expensive and probably the most reliable in terms of not getting Olives at all. These in this video are a variety called 'Wilsonii', which is usually less expensive, more available, but does sometimes produce a few Olives. These were just planted, so all of them get larger than these, but can be controlled relatively easily w/ annual pruning. - John

[@Ang.0910]

How did u kill the Bermuda grass? I can’t seem to kill it.

[@JohnandBobs]

Bermuda is notoriously troublesome. You will likely need to use glyphosate to kill it completely. We sometimes do 2-3 applications of it every week. We have a video about grass removal you can watch here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apWafGxsibl2m9U

[@Ang.0910]

@@JohnandBobs yes it grew up through over 12” of wood chips!

[@someguy5927]

The hakonechloa wont work in the sun, might as well replace. It might work when the trees get bigger and it sits in the shade.

[@JohnandBobs]

You're right about the Hakenochloa (Japanese Grass), we had to replace it after one summer - too much sun!