I highly recommend hiring Brad to do your designs for any project, and then using that design to shop around for a qualified contractor. He definitely helped us to make the best use of all of our backyard space, and bring in the design elements to help it flow with the rest of our house, while also maximizing the beautiful views we have. He is very professional, and was able to take the very general ideas and feedback that my husband I provided, and turn them into a design that even we could not have imagined.īrad was very patient with us, and worked through providing different ideas and recommendations that we had not even previously considered.

“Brad designed our backyard, complete with pool and cabana. I was awed !! He rattled off the names as readily and matter-of-factly as if I had asked him if the sun was shining. He walked with me through my garden and told me the names of all of my existing plants, even he rare ones with both their common as well as their botanical names : 'This is a Dombeya Wallichii ' 'That is a Dizygotheca' etc etc etc for every single plant in my garden. He was also the founder/director of the Xeriscape Water Conservation Program at UCI. He's a walking encyclopedia ! He explained to me that he taught and was the founder and program director of the Landscape Technologies Program at Cal Poly University Pomona for 24 years. An interesting thing about him is his knowledge of horticulture. Wayne is a pleasure to work with, very easygoing, not pushy, and he's prompt. Now I can set about to obtain everything and create my dream patio environment at my own pace, and according to my budget. This was all for a surprisingly reasonable one-time price. The following week he brought to me a professionally drafted design for my space, complete with a variety recommended plants, pots, furniture, fountain and the best places to get them. I wanted not only plants but furniture, a fire pit, and a fountain. I wanted not only plant advice but also someone who could help me design the space. I found 'My Garden' on and I feel lucky I did. But I have no knowledge of plants, which plants would look good, which plants would survive best, and which would require not too much water. I have a rather large tiled patio space in the back and wanted to do something special with it.

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