Garden design & build
A planting plan drawn for your light, soil, and water — then installed by the same crew that drew it.
Gardens that belong to this coast
Design, build, and fine gardening for coastal San Diego homes — planted for salt air, clay soil, and long dry summers.
Services
Everything under our care
Native & drought-tolerant planting
Ceanothus, sage, agave, and the rest of the plants that want to live here on winter rain.
Irrigation & drip conversion
Spray systems swapped for drip lines and smart controllers that water by the season, not the clock.
Paths, patios & seat walls
Flagstone, decomposed granite, and low walls that give a garden its bones.
Monthly fine gardening
Pruning, shaping, and seasonal planting on a set schedule — care, not just cleanup.
Garden lighting
Low-voltage lighting that picks out trees and paths without floodlighting the yard.
A fine-gardening crew, not a mow-and-blow service
Torrey Glen started with one truck and a simple idea: coastal gardens do best when the same hands design them, plant them, and keep them. Marco and the crew work with natives and Mediterranean plants that actually like it here, build the paths and low walls that hold a garden together, and come back on a schedule so it all still looks intentional in year five. Most of our work is within a few miles of the ocean, and it shows in what we plant.
- Licensed C-27 landscape contractor
- Design, install, and care by one crew
- Water-wise planting as the default
- Tidy sites and clear schedules
Contractor license
CA License #99000104 · C-27 Landscaping · since 2012
How a job runs, start to finish
Walk the yard together
Point at what you want changed. Ten minutes outside beats an hour of description.
Agree the scope and the price
What's included, what gets hauled away, what it costs — settled before tools come off the truck.
The work gets done
On the day you set, the way you agreed. Weather can move a date; it shouldn't move the price.
Walk it again before they leave
The cleanup is part of the job. Say so while the crew is still there.
Before you hire anyone
Four flags worth knowing — whoever you call
Ask these of anyone bidding your job — us included. A good answer costs nothing; a bad one saves you the whole mistake.
A price before anyone's seen the job
Real quotes come after eyes on the work. A number over the phone is a number that changes.
Nothing in writing
Scope, price, and who buys materials — settled before work starts, on paper or in a text thread.
Pressure to start today
Good operators are booked. Same-hour availability with a discount attached is its own answer.
No paper trail on payment
However you pay, there should be a record of what was agreed and what was done.
La Jolla
Where we work
- La Jolla
- Del Mar
- Solana Beach
- Encinitas
- Carmel Valley
- Point Loma
Based in La Jolla and working in the neighborhoods around it.
Hours
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