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Lush backyard garden in San Francisco with a wooden boardwalk path winding through ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, and fruit trees

Landscape Design

Raised concrete planter bed with a drought-tolerant succulent garden in San Francisco, featuring varied textures and colors including echeveria, blue chalk sticks, and asparagus ferns

A drought-tolerant planting in a raised concrete bed in San Francisco. Succulents selected for texture, color contrast, and low water use.

Hand-drawn landscape design plan for a San Francisco backyard showing plant placement, decomposed granite, flagstone paving, and a bocce ball court, drawn to quarter-inch scale by Fyrn Landscapes

Design for a backyard in the Outer Sunset. The plan includes California natives, decomposed granite, flagstone, and a bocce ball court. 

3D rendering of a San Francisco backyard design with a central fire pit, flagstone patio, raised vegetable beds, and specimen plantings
Hand-drawn landscape plan for a family backyard in San Francisco showing plant palette, paving layout, and outdoor living zones, by Fyrn Landscapes

This backyard in the Bernal Heights area needed to work hard: space for kids, room to entertain, and planting that felt alive rather than tidy. The design centers on a fire pit gathering area with flagstone paving, stepping back into raised beds and wilder specimen plantings toward the rear. The hand-drawn plan and 3D model helped the family see how the different zones would feel and flow before installation.

Garden Care

Lush backyard garden in San Francisco with a wooden boardwalk path surrounded by California natives, Asian ornamentals, and flowering shrubs

A complex backyard in Cole Valley blending California natives, Asian ornamentals, and native pollinator habitat. Maintaining this garden requires skilled pruning to keep the Japanese aesthetic intact while supporting the ecological planting. I cared for this garden in 2023–24 and returned as the ongoing care provider in 2026.

Late winter garden with white rhododendrons in full bloom surrounded by ornamental grasses and native understory plants, San Francisco

Late winter bloom in the same San Francisco garden. The mix of rhododendrons, grasses, and native understory plants requires careful seasonal pruning to maintain its layered structure and year-round interest.

A front garden in San Carlos, California in full spring bloom. Golden lupine has self-seeded densely across a wide planting bed. Layered native shrubs manzanita and coyote bush, small madrone and holly-leave cherry trees fill the all California native garden. A pale green house is visible on the right.
Naturalistic front yard in San Carlos planted entirely with California natives, with a stepping stone path set through dense low-water groundcover

An all California native garden in San Carlos with a stepping stone path I installed. I have maintained this garden since 2025.

The same San Carlos garden in spring bloom. Golden lupine has self-seeded throughout, filling the bed with no irrigation.

Small front garden bed in San Francisco overflowing with layers of spring bulbs including tulips, daffodils, and narcissus in shades of pink, yellow, purple, and red
Small front garden bed in San Francisco overflowing with layers of spring bulbs including tulips and daffodils in shades of pink, yellow, purple, and orange

A small front garden maintained on a biweekly basis. Once a year, I dig the entire bed and replant with hundreds of spring bulbs in three successive layers, timed to bloom in sequence. The result is this stunning display.

Edible Gardens

Productive backyard edible garden in San Francisco with raised beds, hoop covers, fruit trees, dahlias, and clarkia along a brick path

A backyard edible garden designed and installed by Fyrn Landscapes, including raised beds, fruit trees, cut flowers, and perennial herbs.

White blossoms on a pear tree in early spring in a San Francisco backyard garden, with a lemon tree and raised beds visible in the background
Small developing pears on a heavily fruiting pear tree in summer in a San Francisco backyard garden

The same pear tree in spring and summer. Fruit trees require specialized pruning and care to produce well year after year. This is one of the most rewarding parts of edible garden work.

Expansive vegetable garden at Filoli Historic House and Garden in Woodside with raised beds, chard, arugula, and other crops under a dramatic rainbow sky

Filoli Historic House and Garden

The vegetable garden at Filoli, where I worked as a horticulturist. Growing food at this scale shaped how I think about soil, seasonality, and production.

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