A phased residential garden for a young family in Albuquerque, designed to grow in stages around a planned casita. Rather than installing everything at once and tearing it up later, the plan sequences the work so each phase stands on its own while building toward the finished whole.

Water shapes the design. Green stormwater infrastructure catches rain where it falls and directs it into the planting instead of the sheeting across the site towards the house, putting the desert's scarce rainfall to work. A native seed mix grounds the planting, chosen to establish well in the high desert, support local habitat, and ask little of its owners once it takes hold.