GREYWATER GARDEN
stormwater management
DAVIS, CA | 2019
To accompany the energy-efficient design of the house, we designed green infrastructure in the surrounding landscape. The goal of the design was to highlight greywater zones and reveal the sub-grade conditions above ground through planting design. The plan emphasizes clear, simple, and legible design moves, captures and integrates all roof water into the landscape, and provides native habitat.
highlighted plants
Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard McMinn' (Howard McMinn Manzanita)
Aster chilensis 'Purple Haze' (Purple Haze Aster)
Carex pansa (Sand Dune Sedge)
Cercis occidentalis (Western Redbud)
Epilobium canum (California Fuchsia)
Juncus patens (Common Rush)
Mimulus aurantiacus (Bush Monkey Flower)
ZONE 1 + 2
Pumped, sub-surface greywater systems with connection valves to tap into city sewer
ZONE 3
The laundry to landscape greywater system is a sub-surface, gravity fed system
ZONE 4
Rainwater from north-facing rood is directed via gutter + downspouts into front yard swales via surface + sub-surface water flow
Images by Ellen Vanessa Photography and Miridae