A waterwise garden with gravel, yarrow, rose campion, and silver foliage

Rachel Graham Designs

Curating your waterwise paradise.

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Serving Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Walnut Creek, Danville & Alamo

Let's build something extraordinary.

Rachel creates editorial-ready gardens that feel lush, calm, and deeply personal, layering native plants of every texture, from fine-bladed grasses and soft succulents to bold foliage and delicate blooms, arranged for shadow, movement, and year-round beauty.

Young Japanese maple in a gravel garden with purple verbena and ornamental grasses
Yellow yarrow and magenta rose campion
Echeveria and senecio chalksticks on gravel

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An Echeveria rosette in dark mulch
Magenta rose campion against a cedar fence
Yellow yarrow and magenta rose campion
Flagstones through gravel past a coral hesperaloe
Close-up of an Echeveria with a coral bloom stalk
Flagstone path through California natives
Verbena rising over Mexican feather grass
Yellow yarrow in front of a wood fence
Flagstone steppers through a gravel garden
A cluster of verbena flowers on bark mulch
Concrete steps flanked by senecio and echeveria with ornamental grasses above
Terraced concrete steps with yucca, echeveria, and mixed succulents on a hillside
Blue senecio chalksticks massed around a large boulder with ferns beyond
Young Japanese maple in a gravel garden with purple verbena and ornamental grasses
Agave rosette in mulch with purple verbena in gravel beyond
Asparagus fern in gravel with agave and stepping stones
Flagstone path through gravel with verbena and hesperaloe
Magenta rose campion and verbena in a mixed border
Yellow yarrow in close view with magenta rose campion beyond
Echeveria with blue senecio chalksticks
A pollinator meadow in bloom
Echeveria and senecio chalksticks on gravel
Tall verbena against a pale stucco wall
An Echeveria rosette in dark mulch
Magenta rose campion against a cedar fence
Yellow yarrow and magenta rose campion
Flagstones through gravel past a coral hesperaloe
Close-up of an Echeveria with a coral bloom stalk
Flagstone path through California natives
Verbena rising over Mexican feather grass
Yellow yarrow in front of a wood fence
Flagstone steppers through a gravel garden
A cluster of verbena flowers on bark mulch
Concrete steps flanked by senecio and echeveria with ornamental grasses above
Terraced concrete steps with yucca, echeveria, and mixed succulents on a hillside
Blue senecio chalksticks massed around a large boulder with ferns beyond
Young Japanese maple in a gravel garden with purple verbena and ornamental grasses
Agave rosette in mulch with purple verbena in gravel beyond
Asparagus fern in gravel with agave and stepping stones
Flagstone path through gravel with verbena and hesperaloe
Magenta rose campion and verbena in a mixed border
Yellow yarrow in close view with magenta rose campion beyond
Echeveria with blue senecio chalksticks
A pollinator meadow in bloom
Echeveria and senecio chalksticks on gravel
Tall verbena against a pale stucco wall