FormLA Landscaping

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FormLA Landscaping
13 Reviews

Entertaining Hillside Oasis

An expansive, vibrant rustic-modern landscape wraps a contemporary California home in Thousand Oaks. Perfect for entertainers, the space carries the serenity and peace often associated with smaller spaces.
Country: United States
Ideal for entertaining, a circular drive cuts a path past an IdealMow meadow and foliage beds full of varied color and extraordinary blooms. The front garden brings so much more than curb appeal - it needs only much less water and maintenance than a more traditional landscape.
A Vibrant Welcome
Shaded by oak and made cozy by vibrant native foliage, the outdoor floor plan is the perfect backdrop for outdoor entertaining. The easy flow between the indoor kitchen and outdoor BBQ makes things easy on the chef.
Indoor Outdoor Living Space
California native Pitchers Sage (Lepechinia calycina), a fragrant perennial shrub, dangles these lovely lavendar bells in the spring and early summer in LA.
Pitchers Sage
Wrapped by the home and a vibrant array of California native greenery, the outdoor lounge looks over the expansive property to oak groves and blue skies. It's a great space for cozy after-dinner conversation or mid-day reading retreat.
Lounge with a View
Neither succulents nor jade are native to LA, and they need a different environment to thrive. A good way to integrate foliage like this into a space is to place them in containers.
Potted Jade and Succulents
Vibrant California native foliage and a stylized modern stairway connect the outdoor kitchen and lounge with the pool-adjacent areas. This lush, leafy, colorful foliage cools the pool area and is ideal for retaining the steep slope.
Lush & Leafy Modern Stairway
Vibrant California native foliage and a stylized modern stairway connect the outdoor kitchen and lounge with the pool-adjacent areas. This lush, leafy, colorful foliage cools the pool area and is ideal for retaining the steep slope.
Modern Pool and Garden
With a view of the pool and adjacent greenery, this lounge can entertain a crowd or carry the meditative serenity of a private retreat.
Pool-Side Pergola and Lounge
Did you notice the incredible perriwinkle blooms on the way to the outdoor lounge? They are Penstemon heterophyllus X 'Margarita BOP.' Extraordinary when covered with these delicate bells, it serves as boxwood-like greenery when not in blooom.
Margarita BOP Penstemon
Vibrant California native foliage softens the clean lines of concrete pavers and modern outdoor furniture. The lush and leafy border and slope establish privacy and feeling of serenity in the space. On the pragmatic side, the greenery cools the adjacent area and absorbs splash and overflow from the...
Lush & Leafy Poolside Lounge
The fresh sent of sage surrounds the poolside modern chaise lounge chairs. Adjacent to an outdoor kitchen and bar built into a retaining wall, the lounge looks over the pool to the vibrant greenery that defines the property line.
Retaining Wall Makes Space for Modern Outdoor Lounge
The dappled light of California native Live Oak canopies gives our local woodland gardens a distinctive zen like serenity. This zen mindset must be harnessed to find under-canopy foliage that can thrive in an oak grove! Carpeteria californica happily lights up shady areas with camellia blooms....
Carpenteria
Concrete pavers deliver a clean, modern aesthetic while slow growing IdealMow lawn-or-meadow foliage joints ensure the area is water smart and feels warm and inviting. Pops of bright yellow Indian Mallow catch the eye on a slope defined by greenery and lavendar-to-periwinkle blooms.
IdealMow Grass Joints
A pizza oven sits next to the pooside outdoor bar - perfect for a poolside snack, and it keeps the heat away from the home. Those lovely little coral blooms next to the oven are Desert Globemallow - not only do they complement the terra cotta of the oven, they love its heat!
Outdoor Pizza Oven
The coral blooms of Desert Globemallow, Sphaeralcea ambigua are all the more eye-catching against its soft silver foliage. It will happily take the heat and loves full sun.
Desert Globemallow
Clean, modern hardscapes and vibrant, varied California native greenery deliver a meditative quality - along with the peace of mind that comes with knowing every inch of this expansive garden supports and protects LA's resilience.
Drought-Tolerant Serenity