Natural Landscaping Vision: 13815 North 41st Place
If you’re currently in the market for a 3-4 bedroom updated home in the North Phoenix area, this might be the perfect opportunity for you — a custom natural landscape ready when you move in!
“Regenerative” means restoring degraded soils for the benefit of all.
The existing landscape at 13815 North 41st Place is a typical barren Phoenix yard, and The Defrates Group wants to offer the future owners of this spacious, renovated home something more. That’s why we are teaming up to offer a complete front- and backyard transformation along the lines of the vision shown in these renderings.
The components of regenerative landscape design included in this plan are:
Native Sonoran Desert trees & plants
Desert-adapted fruit-bearing trees & plants
Low-maintenance, drought-tolerant lawn alternative
Passive rainwater harvesting system
If that’s exciting to you, let’s dive in.
A shady, low-maintenance native Sonoran Desert front yard
This front yard is west-facing, which means it will benefit massively from a mature shade canopy.
We create this canopy using fast-growing, heat-loving Sonoran Desert native trees like the palo verde, velvet mesquite, and desert willow, then fill the understory with more natives including Angelita daisies, desert milkweed, blackfoot daisies, Parry’s penstemon, Baja fairy duster (red), creosote, green hopseed, Greggs mistflower, agave, prickly pear and Peruvian apple cacti to complement the existing Saguaro.
These trees will take a huge heat load off the A/C system, extending its lifespan by many years and reducing your energy bills as long as you live here.
Throughout the seasons, these plants will produce beautiful flowers that attract and feed native pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and more—restoring their native habitat without you having to lift a finger.
This entire system requires no more than one professional arborist pruning per year. Leaves & flowers dropped by the trees will serve as ground mulch to keep the soil covered, one of three key principles to healthy living soil.
Speaking of healthy soil, let’s check out the backyard!
A lush, food-bearing, low-water use backyard
Your backyard will be the talk of your group chat — everyone’s favorite place to hang out and grill by the pool, or just a cozy quiet place for you & your closest loved ones.
Imagine harvesting nutrient-dense homegrown food from your own backyard every single season. Don’t worry if you aren’t a Master Gardener — we’ll drop by once per quarter to keep your plants healthy, adjust irrigation as needed, and donate your unused harvests to local food banks and aid organizations!
New Kurapia lawn in February & August
Your garden beds also have buried vermicompost (worm farm) bins that you simply place your kitchen scraps into, and the worms will eat them & fertilize your soil — naturally, for free, all year long — preventing countless tons of landfill food waste.
Also included in this design is a perfectly sized, no-mow living lawn that feels soft underfoot and takes almost no water to keep green year-round. We are anti-turf for many reasons, so if you’re wanting a lawn area, this is the perfect solution.
Your landscape will be irrigated by a WiFi timer controlled from anywhere in the world. We use the most durable tubing on the market (called “swing pipe”) that lasts as long as PVC itself. This will be your plants’ primary source of water most of the year, but they’ll also thank you for…
A free source of supplemental water, year-round
Running through your entire regenerative landscape is an extensive passive rainwater harvesting system. Your 3,250 square feet of roof surface area will capture over 2,000 gallons of rainwater for every 1” of rain — and we get on average 7” per year in Phoenix, which can mean as much as 14,000 gallons in a single year!
Seamless aluminum gutters channel our precious desert rainfall (pH-balanced, electrically charged, and full of dissolved nitrogen) into rocked arroyos & basins. The rainwater infiltrates deep into the earth, providing your trees & plants ample hydration whenever they it.
This not only reduces your total water bill, it also leads to more
The perfect yard for nature lovers
Whoever buys this home will be the lucky recipient of an amazing natural landscaping system, if they choose it.
And all the rest of us? Well, we can all have this too. 😉
