Farallon Gardens is a Berkeley-based landscape design studio offering design, installation, and selective maintenance for its own projects. Work emphasizes drought-tolerant plant palettes and site-specific solutions that age well.
Clients often note clear communication, thoughtful plant selection for Bay Area conditions, and tidy, efficient crews. Designs balance aesthetics with low-water needs, and installations emphasize durable, climate-appropriate choices.
Serving Berkeley and neighboring East Bay communities depending on project scope.
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Landscape design, planting and garden installation, drought-tolerant and low-water plantings, irrigation setup, garden renovations, hardscape accents on a project basis, and selective ongoing maintenance for Farallon-designed gardens.
Reviews consistently mention strong design skills, especially with drought-tolerant and low-water plantings. Customers describe professional, efficient crews and gardens that continue to look good over time. Many note reliable ongoing maintenance for Farallon-designed projects and appreciation for plant knowledge and responsiveness.
We had an amazing experience with Farallon Gardens! They renovated both our front and back yard and have completely refreshed and revived our home! The plants and garden design are absolutely gorgeous and we have had numerous compliments from neighbors and passers-by. They also added several thoughtful touches, like making a sweet fairy garden for our small kids (picture included)! On top of that, the team was extremely professional and efficient -- the project was completed quickly and with very little disturbance to our routine! I heartily recommend them to everyone!
I was referred to Farallon through my garden designer to do maintenance on my yard. My understanding is they generally only maintain gardens they have designed, but over the past year they have been doing monthly trimming and clean up and the yard looks great and is thriving. Dependable quality work.
Matt is a knowledgeable and talented horticulturist. He designed and installed the plantings at my corner lot home in Alameda. I asked for low-water, salt and sand friendly, and leaning more towards unusual choices. He delivered. And Daniel does an outstanding job of maintaining the garden's beauty; he's so thoughtful and zen about it. It's been a pleasure doing business with Farallon for the past 5+ years.
I cannot say enough great things about Mathew and his team. We contacted him a few years ago for a bid to completely remodel our overgrown-with-weeds front yard. We wanted something drought-tolerant and very specific (I had one photo I was really trying to achieve). Mathew went above and beyond to make our dream a reality, including searching resources he has in Palm Springs for healthy Saguaros. Farallon Gardens not only had one of the most reasonable bids, the end result was such an incredible transformation, I believe no less than three of our immediate neighbors contacted them subsequently to transform their gardens. Our garden is so low maintenance and I absolutely now love driving up to our home, delighted by his masterful work. We also LOVE Dan, who helps us with monthly maintenance at an affordable rate.
A year after Matt redid our garden, we're sill getting compliments on it -- and the neighbors are trying keeping up. ;-) The process of working with Matt was great. I showed him photos of gardens I liked, and we talked about what we wanted. Based on that, he created a wonderful garden oasis that took advantage of the neighboring trees and used plants that blended well with those. Even our aesthetic tree pruner friend, who's very critical of gardens, was so impressed that she recommends Matt to all her clients now. Under his continued maintenance, the garden is growing in beautifully. I'm so glad we found Matt and Farallon Gardens!
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