Iris House
Installation May 2023
Project Scope
grading
mulch
installed all new irrigation
drainage + water harvesting design
plant selection
vegetable garden
fruit trees + grey water system
full planting
Project Details
🌎 Highland Park
🏡 Front yard— 1,000 sq ft
Side yard— 4,000 sq ft
Backyard— 1,800 sq ft
☀️ Entire property has varying degrees of sun
💧 Drip irrigation + overhead sprinklers
fruit trees receive recycled greywater from the home’s laundry and bathroom
✨ Featured on the Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Garden Tour 2025
Photos taken on the 2025 Theodore Payne Native Garden Tour, shot by Rio Asch Phoenix
Side yard Plants
Full Sun
Bush Sunflower - Encelia californica
California Buckwheat - Eriogonum fasciculatum
Chaparral Yucca - Hesperoyucca whipplei
Deergrass - Muhlenbergia rigens
Foothill Penstemon - Penstemon heterophyllus
Grevillea - mounding and upright varieties (non-native)
La Luna Desert Mallow - Sphaeralcea fulva ‘La Luna’
Passionfruit - Passiflora edulis
Pearl Acacia - Acacia Podalyrifolia (non-native)
Purple Sage - Salvia leucophylla
Snow Flurry Ceanothus - Ceanothus thyrsiflorus ‘Snow Flurry’
Waverly Salvia (non-native)
Part Shade/ Full Sun
Bee Plant - Scrophularia californica
Blue Eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium bellum
Bush Anemone - Carpinteria californica
Coyote Mint - Monardella villosa ‘Russian River’
Douglas Iris - Iris douglasiana
Hummingbird Sage - Salvia spathacea
Island Alum Root - Heuchera maxima
Joyce Coulter Ceanothus - Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’
Lilac Verbena - Verbena illicinia
Manzanita ‘Lester Rowntree‘ - Arctostaphylos ‘Lester Rowntree’
Mock Orange - Philadelphus lewisii
Pigeon Point Coyote Brush - Baccharis pilularis ssp. pilularis 'Pigeon Point'
Pitcher Sage - Lepechinia fragrans
San Clemente Island Bushmallow - Malacothamnus clementinus
Santa Barbara Daisy (non- native)
Toyon - Heteromeles arbutifolia
Western Columbine - Aquilegia formosa
Yerba Buena - Clinopodium douglasii
The following images showcase "before" and "after" shots.
August 2023
March 2025
August 2023
March 2025
Backyard Plants
Sun
California Buckwheat Hybrid - Eriogonum blissianum
Island Snapdragon - Gambelia speciosa ‘Firecracker’
Fruit Trees
Katy Apricot (non- native)
Meyer Lemon (non- native)
Mexican Lime (non- native)
Owari Satsuma (non- native)
Santa Rosa Plum (non- native)
Tango Mandarin (non- native)
Part Shade/ Full Sun
African Basil (non-native)
Boca Rosa Showy Island Snapdragon - Gambelia speciosa ‘Boca Rosa’
California Buckwheat - Eriogonum fasciculatum
California Grape - Vitis californica
Canyon Prince Wild Rye - Elymus condensatus 'Canyon Prince'
Catalina Perfume - Ribes viburnifolium
Clustered Field Sedge - Carex praegracilis
Island Alum Root - Heuchera maxima
Mexican Marigold (non-native)
Moonshine Yarrow (non-native)
Ray Hartman Ceanothus - Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’
Thyme (non-native)
Yerba Buena - Clinopodium douglasii
Front Yard Plants
Sun
Bee's Bliss Sage - Salvia ‘Bee's Bliss’
Black Sage - Salvia mellifera
California Buckwheat - Eriogonum fasciculatum
Chaparral Yucca - Hesperoyucca whipplei
Deer Grass - Muhlenbergia rigens
Giant Chalk Dudleya - Dudleya brittonii
Howard McMinn Manzanita - Arctostaphylos ‘Howard McMinn’
La Luna Mallow - Sphaeralcea fulva ‘La Luna’
Louis Hamilton Desert Mallow - Sphaeralcea ‘Louis Hamilton’
Matilijah Poppy - Romneya coulteri
Palmer’s Indian Mallow - Abutilon palmeri
Point Sal Spreader Sage - Salvia leucophylla ‘Point Sal Spreader’
Purple Sage - Salvia leucophylla
Toyon- Heteromeles arbutifolia
White Sage - Salvia apiana
Part Shade
Bush Anemone - Carpenteria californica
California Fuchsia - Epilobium canum ‘Catalina’ and ‘Calistoga’
Canyon Prince Wild Rye - Elymus condensatus ‘Canyon Prince’
Golden Currant - Ribes aureum
Island Alum Root - Heuchera maxima
Santa Barbara Daisy (non-native)
Existing plants
Camellia (2)
Walnut tree
three months
two years
