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 This site is about California Native plants in an urban habitat..

 California Native Design, California Native installation,  Water conserving techniques, Mediterranean planting. Efficient use of drought tolerant planting material and Irrigation systems where drip, online dripping, Xeriscape, Drip emitters, water timers, gray water systems, rain runoff and storage systems. Hardscape elements like decomposed granite, recycled rubber mulch, Urbanite concrete (crazy paver), stone, brick and permeable paver, permeable concrete, LED lighting systems, Solar energy, and much more.

This website is designed to inform you about the simplicity in design and installation of California Native planting, Irrigation maximization and product or element's reusability. This gets achieved by simplicity of the design and by installing elements that promote this "Stewart of the land method". such as, stone products, pavers set on aggregates, or modular concrete, and other.

You can argue that this should only include natives but not drought tolerant or Mediterranean plants. However, I think it could include both. There is a lot of planting material that will successfully coexist giving you both the ability to propagate Natives and color as well as hardiness of a Drought tolerant plant.

The Surface or hardscape should have few qualities, aside from providing a high LEED mark by limiting its energy to produce and deliver, to the kind of the material it should be made of.

Natural stone is one of the best elements that will add this melancholic value to a landscape, However, there is other products like pavers, or other permeable material that will increase the water onsite retaining coefficient value.

This value is hard to benchmark. As long as there is a water recharge system in place there will be water permeability value or factor in place. The question is now, how much. We can assume that if you would be living in a sandy loam and fertile arable land your natural water runoff coefficient will better that anybody else living in a flat where concrete structures predominate.