Landscape design services look roughly the same on the surface everywhere you go. A consultation, a design plan, a material list, a build. But the decisions inside that process vary enormously depending on where the property sits, and nowhere is that more true than in Napa, CA, and the surrounding Wine Country region.

The conditions here are specific in ways that catch out designers who learned their trade somewhere else. The summer drought runs long and deep. The soils shift between wet and dry with a force that damages poorly anchored structures.