Landscape Design in Orange County.

Design fees scale with the size and scope of the property. A focused front-yard design in Irvine or Tustin typically runs in the low four figures. A whole-property design with 3D renderings and construction documents for an Orange or Newport Beach estate is meaningfully more. We quote a fixed design fee after the Discovery consultation so there are no hourly surprises.

A landscape designer is responsible for the design and documentation of your outdoor space — site planning, planting, hardscape, lighting, irrigation, outdoor living, and the construction drawings a contractor builds from. We don't install. That separation keeps our recommendations objective and lets us work with the best builder for your project.

Yes — photorealistic 3D renderings are part of most of our projects. They're how homeowners decide what to build and how contractors close bids. We model the design with real material textures and plants at realistic sizes, then render daylight and dusk views of key vantage points.

Water-wise landscaping is drought-tolerant, California-friendly design — climate-appropriate planting, hydrozoned drip irrigation, and weather-based controllers. New and renovated landscapes over a certain size in California must meet MWELO (Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance) targets, enforced through plan review by your local water district. We design to MWELO from the first sketch.

Yes. HOA submittals are routine work for us — Irvine villages, Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills, gated communities in Newport Beach and Laguna Niguel, and master-planned neighborhoods across Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita. The plant lists, material boards, and renderings are formatted to what your community asks for.

Yes — contractor design support is roughly half of our work. We offer white-label landscape design, 3D renderings, and construction plans for landscape contractors, pool builders, general contractors, and custom home builders across Orange County. See our Contractors page for retainer and per-project options.

We design across all of Orange County, with most of our work in Irvine, Newport Beach, Orange, Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda, Tustin, Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Lake Forest, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Trabuco Canyon. Each city has its own service-area page with local design notes.

A typical residential design moves through Discovery, Site Analysis, Concept, 3D Visualization, Revisions, and Construction Plans in roughly eight to eleven weeks. Smaller scopes are faster; estate projects with permits and engineering take longer. See our Process page for a full phase-by-phase breakdown.

A front yard renovation typically includes a new planting plan (usually replacing lawn with a California-friendly palette), refreshed hardscape (entry walkway, driveway edges, address monument), low-voltage lighting, drip irrigation upgraded to weather-based control, and the construction-document set your contractor builds from. In HOA communities like Irvine, Tustin Ranch, Yorba Linda, and Anaheim Hills we also prepare the architectural submittal — plant list, material board, and a rendered front elevation — formatted to what your community asks for.

Backyard renovations are designed as a single architectural project, not a stack of upgrades. We start by resolving the big moves — pool, outdoor kitchen, lounge, lawn, planting beds, shade — at the master-plan level, then layer in the construction detail. The result is a backyard that feels intentional from the back door to the rear fence, with materials and proportions that line up with the architecture of the house. For Newport Beach and coastal projects we specify hardware and finishes rated for salt air; for inland Orange County we size shade structures and fire features for how the climate actually behaves in July.

We design the pool's shape, location, decking, coping, and surround as part of the master plan, and we coordinate with a licensed pool builder on the structural and equipment design. That keeps the pool integrated with the rest of the backyard — patios, planting, lighting, shade — instead of dropped in as a stand-alone element.

Yes. Where SoCal Water$mart, Metropolitan Water District, or your local water district offers turf-replacement rebates, we design the project to qualify and walk you through the pre- and post-inspection documentation. Most of our water-wise designs in Yorba Linda, Irvine, and Orange comfortably meet rebate criteria.