About

Mark Beall is an award-winning designer, horticulturalist, and avid gardener and a licensed Landscape Architect with the State of California for almost 20 years. His residential design approach is customized to each client’s taste, property, and lifestyle and cultivates the rich outdoor living environment of Southern California’s climate. His gardening experience acknowledges the progressive nature of a garden and plants are selected carefully so that 5 or 10 years from now, the garden will achieve a maturity without excessive maintenance.

Philosophy

Mark Beall and Associates is a vibrant, progressive, full-service landscape architecture and design practice that has for the last decade consistently provided top level designs. The firm’s work reflects the synergy between the site, the client, and the designer and encompasses a diverse range of genre including residential, multi-family housing, educational, and corporate projects. The distinctive environmental qualities of each site are analyzed and engaged to both inspire and shape the psyche thus creating unique landscapes utilizing rich forms, textures, materials, and colors and yet ultimately functional and easy to maintain. Our track record continues to bring us many repeat clients and our service-oriented approach is as important to us as our design strengths.

Landscape design, unlike that of a building or an interior space where once the work is complete it is a static piece hopefully requiring little or no revision, is a living, breathing creation. It changes over time; you cannot treat it as “finished” and there are many variables that affect its overall success; including sun, soil, wind, water, and of course maintenance.

We believe in being stewards of the land and promote a responsibility to integrate sensitive, cutting-edge methods into our landscape design to conserve water and reuse materials. As part of the current “green revolution” with new reduced water usage limits and stricter watershed policies, such as in Southern California where our climate doesn’t provide enough, it is essential that we treat each design and each drop of water no matter how small as a piece in a much bigger complex system. We do not however limit ourselves to designing only “desert landscapes”; our designs are surprisingly lush and we achieve this with carefully controlled irrigation and the use of water conserving mulches. Education is a huge part of our ongoing design process as we attempt to make the client aware of the implications of their garden on the larger environment.