Landscaping with fruit trees and vegetables for San Francisco Bay Area homeowners and businesses since 1989.
Why settle for a garden that is merely beautiful, 
when it can be delicious
too? The San Francisco Bay Area is blessed with one of
the best climates on the planet … and not just for people. Your
own home or business probably occupies prime orchard land.
Maybe you are lucky enough to have 'inherited' a backyard orchard from the home's previous owner, but must sheepishly admit that you haven't a clue how to
Or maybe, a little ways back in your family tree there is someone with a 'green thumb,' who grew memorably delicious fruits and vegetables in abundance, and always made it look easy.
With Plenty it is easy!We provide the landscaping key: Selection and timing.
For each customer, we create a plot plan showing tree type and locations, plus a calendar for the correct timing of each phase of successful maintenance.
We then select, plant, maintain and harvest fruits and vegetables in your own yard.
Happily, a Plenty garden is beautiful too! Our garden designs feature a new style that we call The Suburban Minifarm. You already pay to have your "farm" planted, maintained and harvested. In essence, we're changing the crop to something tastier that grass clippings.
We also offer hands-on instruction and a detailed calendar for those who want to do the work themselves.
Read Plenty owner and landscape designer Mae Clark's great article, Greener than Thou? Seven Steps for a Long-Lived 'Green' Garden for a great overview of Mae's landscaping philosophy and strategy.
In 1996 the “yard,” so to speak, around our new house in Lafayette was a bare-earth hillside, so steep that we could barely stand up or walk around the area without falling down. Mae landscaped that wasteland with terraces, rock walls, a uniquely designed redwood fence, and gorgeous plants. Since then, she has occasionally tweaked and titivated (a word I learned from Mae) her design. Her taste, creativity and imagination are consummate. She takes a vested interest in her clients and their properties, and we especially appreciate her focus on native plants, water conservation and knowledge about what plants do best in the heavy clay soil and deer population in this area. Her crew is extremely hard-working and we trust them completely around our house, kids and pets. The fees and expenses for Mae's services have always been very reasonable. We’re devoted to Mae, and we commend her to you. - Doug Fowler
Here are some of the landscaping and arborist services we offer:
- Complete commercial
and residential landscape design, maintenance installation and
consultation - Front yard and back yard gardens (vegetables, fruit trees, flowers), organic and sustainable gardens, edible gardens, English gardens and nanofarming. Water conservation gardens using California native plants and drought tolerant plantings.
- Tree pruning services by our expert arborist.
- Small landscaping projects.
- Hardscape landscaping including stone retaining walls, patios, fences, paving, decking, walkways, brick pavers, decks dry laid, permeable paving, concrete, aggregate concrete, interlocking pavingstone, flagstone, natural stone, driveways, arbors, benches, trellis, patio covers, masonry structures, custom water features,
- Irrigation systems including sprinklers, lawn irrigation, drip irrigation, low water irrigation, automatic irrigation, weather based timers, irrigation design, water conservation and irrigation audits.
Bay Area Service Areas:
- San Francisco
- Marin County
- East Bay
- The Peninsula