No. 70 Landscaping · Mid-Century Modern
Mid-Century Courtyard with Concrete Water Feature
Outside a mid-century modern home with a flat roof and post-and-beam framing, concrete pavers bridge a gravel courtyard featuring a breeze block privacy screen, potted citrus, and a linear water feature spilling into a pond.
Design notes
Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.
What to look for
- Three layers: canopy, shrubs, groundcover
- How hardscape and planting share the edges
- Plants suited to the climate, not just the photo
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