This landscape rehabilitation project combines great design with envirionmentally friendly/sustainable plant material. My recollection of the concept behind this landscape design is "A Stop on the California Roadside". The design utilizes a pleasing assortment of both native and low water use plantings in a way which allows for seasonal color change; includes wonderful specimens of native Coast Live Oaks, endemic Torrey Pines, California Sycamores; and allows for interaction from both people and native creatures. In fact this interaction is an aspect strongly noticed when one enters the project.

The landscape is alive with both people strolling through the mendering paths as well as native birds, bees and butterfiles darting through the air. This project also includes upscale design elements like pedestrian nodes, arc shaped walls, and stylized entry monuments. This landscape rehabilitation replaces one filled with water loving plants, like the Coral Trees formerly found on site, and materials now known to be invasive, like the hedges of Acacia longifolia that used to line street edge of the project.

I think landscape architect Mike Sullivan and his client, the Muller Company, have invested in a landscape which illustrates a wonderful way to merge the principles of sustainability and good design, and are deserving of recognition in San Diego for their hard work and money invested in making the City of San Diego a more beautiful place.

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