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Completed desert-modern garden with a long pool, stone patio, olive trees and ornamental grasses

Las Vegas, Nevada · Hot desert

Desert Courtyard

A shaded outdoor room organised around a long pool, olive trees and warm stone.

Sample project

01

Client goals

  • Shade for summer evenings
  • A pool that feels part of the garden
  • Low-water planting

02

Existing property

A bare gravel yard beside an L-shaped house, with full sun and no shade.

Overhead view of the Las Vegas property before design: an L-shaped house beside a bare desert-gravel yard

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Design concept

Pull the terrace out to the water's edge and frame it with three olive trees for shade.

04

Plan development

A single paved terrace joins house and pool; gravel beds and grasses soften the edges.

Overhead concept planting plan based on the Las Vegas courtyard photo, showing the long rectangular pool, three olive trees, stone seating terrace, gravel beds and a small lawn

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Plant and material direction

Travertine paving, warm gravel, olive, agave and ornamental grasses.

Designer's desk with courtyard sketches, travertine samples, gravel, olive branches and ornamental grassDry-stacked stone wall with lavender and a clay pot in the high desert

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Before and after

Completed desert-modern garden with a long pool, stone patio, olive trees and ornamental grasses
Overhead view of the Las Vegas property before design: an L-shaped house beside a bare desert-gravel yard
BeforeAfter

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Package used

Signature

A more complete residential landscape transformation.

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08

Location and climate

Las Vegas, Nevada

Hot desert · shade and heat-tolerant planting lead every decision.

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