Berkeley Shaded Butterfly Garden
(completed 2022)

Photos by Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic

Berkeley Pollinator Playground
​(completed 2023)

Photos by Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic

Montclair Habitat Garden Oasis
​(completed 2016)

Photos by Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic

Berkeley Meadow Nook
(​completed Summer 2021)

Photos by Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic

Saratoga Pollinator Playground
​(completed Spring 2021)

Photos by William Esposito

 San Francisco Happy Songbird
​(completed Spring 2021)

Photos by Kari Lodrup

Habitat

We see each of our gardens as a link in a chain of microhabitats that support threatened birds, butterflies and pollinators. To develop these relationships, our gardens incorporate plant combinations that are both beautiful and function as a complex ecosystem. We expertly choose plants that provide seasonal interest and bloom year round. Read more...

Stonework

Dry-stacked stone work has been used throughout the world for many centuries to build houses, walls, staircases and bridges. Many of them still stand, hundreds of years later. Dry stacked stonework is done without the use of mortar or glue to bind the rocks. Carefully selected stones are knitted together using a time-tested technique that forms an interlocking, load bearing structure that lasts for hundreds of years. Read more...

Living Fountains

Living Fountains capture the greywater from your washing machine or bathroom sink and clean it through plant roots and soil.  This process filters the impurities from the water, and bioinvigorates it from the naturally occurring bacteria in the plants specially chosen to effectively clean the water.  This water, when used in the garden, is teeming with life, and has the ability to make your plants healthier.  Read more...

Dragonfly Ponds
Dragonfly Ponds utilize the rainwater that falls on your roof and runs down your downspouts. Water is directed through trenches lined with drain rock into a dry well. When the dry well seasonally fills, water is collected and held which provides good growing conditions for wetland plants that dragonflies and other wetland pollinators are attracted to.  Read more...

Stone Fountains

The Stone Seed Fountains and Sculptures that we create at Mariposa are made of dry stacked stone, built using no mortar or glue.  Our stone seed features are either free stacked or smoothed down with a grinder.  The dimensions of each of our stone seed features are set according to the Golden Mean proportions.  The Golden Mean is a mathematical proportion, found all over in nature, in seeds, in shells, in eggs, in flowers and in trees. As a fountain feature, butterflies and birds are easily able to access water.Stone Fountains