Succulents by Vreeke: The Bennington Landscape Project

From Start to Finish

Design and Drawings

While working with the design of the house and the neighboring homes, we came up with a plan to incorporate the feel of the neighborhood while water consumption by 50%.

We applied for the bewaterwise turf removal rebate.

This is a Southern California rebate, but your area might have a similar rebate.
Note, you must wait for approval before starting your project. Once you receive approval you have 6 months to complete, so start the process early.

The home originally had approx. 2,000 sq feet of turf and a lot of water thirsty plants.
While some of the planters had been already converted to succulents, there was still a lot of room for improvement.

We then applied weed killer to the lawn area, which took a few applications to kill the last weed. After applying the week killer to the turf, you want to keep watering it so the roots will die also. This was about a month process.

After all the dead turf was removed and the trees trimmed and one removed, 3 truckloads of universal blend soil total of 23 yards was dropped off from Agromin. After 8 hours and two workers, the three large piles of dirt was spread out onto the areas where the succulent garden will be installed.