TELA collaborated with architect Tobin Smith on the site design for this residence studded with heritage Live Oaks along an ephemeral creek. The client wanted a rich native landscape rather than a monoculture of the more typical approach of St. Augustine lawn, Asian Jasmine and Cast Iron Plant. TELA designed the entry with slabs of native limestone that rhythmically descend through steel planters overflowing with succulents and a simple native garden of sedges and grasses under the canopy of existing Live Oaks. A permeable driveway allows for oxygen and water infiltration to nearby tree roots. In the back garden, a square steel condensate-supplemented fountain spills into an organic lily pond. The site details are orthogonal to the house becoming more organic with bridges and wild indigenous gardens as one traverses to the ephemeral creek. Native plants fill the site along with two swaths of lawn that serve as podiums for the client’s sculpture collection.