No. 93 Landscaping · Mid-Century Modern
Mid-Century Entryway with Breeze Block Wall
At night, path lights and landscape lighting illuminate concrete pavers, agaves, and gravel in a front yard beside a flat roof, post-and-beam mid-century modern house featuring a decorative breeze block screen.
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





