Landscape design for Bay Area homes

See your new yard before you build it.

Name: Ponte Design
Telephone: +12069493519
Price range: $750 per yard

Concept renders of your own front or back yard, plus a planting plan that shows what goes where. $750 per yard, credited toward installation if you build with our licensed partner contractor.

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Serving the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and surrounding areas.

Concept render of a real front yard at golden hour: a two-story house with a curving paver walk, low water-wise planting, boulders and path lights.

Concept Design Package$750 per yard
For your front or back yard, on a single-family home.
You see it first2–3 concept renders
Your own yard, redesigned, before you commit to an install.
You get the planA planting plan
Which plants go where, chosen for your sun, space, and water use.
Install creditCredited toward installation
Your $750 is credited toward installation if you build with our licensed partner contractor.

From photos to planting plan

How it works

Three steps from the yard you have to a plan for the yard you want.

Show us your yard
Illustration
Send a few photos, or ask for a site visit anywhere we serve. Tell us what you'd like to change and what's not working now.
See it in concept renders
Illustration
We design your yard and show it to you in 2–3 concept renders of your own space. Tell us what you'd change, and we'll update the design in your revision round.
Get your planting plan
Illustration of a sample planting plan
You get a planting plan that shows which plants go where, chosen for your sun, space, and water use. Build it with our licensed partner contractor and your $750 is credited toward installation.

See how it works in detail

Why design first

Make the big decisions before the first shovel

A yard is a big decision. Make it on paper first, with your own yard in front of you.

See it first.
Look at your own yard, redesigned, before you commit to an install.
Choose plants that fit.
Know which plants go where, picked for your conditions, not for the nursery display.
Start the build with a clear picture.
Walk into the install conversation knowing what you want, instead of describing it from scratch.

The package

One package, one clear price

$750

Per yardFront or back

Want the front and the back? Each yard is its own Concept Design Package, unless your property calls for a custom quote.

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Package

Concept Design Package

For your front or back yard, on a single-family home.

What’s included in the Concept Design Package
Symbol	What’s included	Note
	A site visit or your photos	Your call, anywhere we serve.
	2–3 concept renders of your yard	Your own space, redesigned.
	A planting plan	Which plants go where.
	One revision round	Send all your changes together.

Travel: no fee for most site visits. $50 if reaching you means crossing a bridge.

Install credit. Your $750 is credited toward installation if you build with our licensed partner contractor.

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Ponte Design provides conceptual design and planting plans for single-family homes. We are landscape designers, not licensed landscape architects or contractors. Construction documents and grading/drainage plans are prepared by licensed professionals, and installation is performed by licensed partner contractors.

Sample concepts

Here’s how a design comes together

Every design starts as a planting plan and ends as a picture of your yard. Watch a real front yard, or our sample, go from plan to 3D model to render, from one camera, so every plant lands on its own circle. Then tap any plant on the sample plan below.

The real project's planting plan laid on the ground of its front and side yards, seen from above the street. — Planting plan · real project

3D model of the real project from the same drone view, built from its planting plan. — Planting plan · real project

Illustration of a sample planting plan

ScaleBar on the plan

North

Flagstone patio, walk, porch and steppers
Decomposed granite paths
Gravel garden, 3/8 in gravel
Gravel mulch by the house, service side
Dry creek and rain garden, river cobble
Corten raised beds
Planting beds, mulched
Sedge parkway, no mow
Existing concrete: drive, walk, curb
Existing oak, dripline protected
Buried drain pipe and overflow trench

CRH

Ray Hartman ceanothus (tree)

Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman'

Water use: Low
Season: Blue flowers Mar–Apr; evergreen; limbed up to 6 ft
Spread: About 16 ft
Height: About 15 ft
On plan: 1 shown

Tap any plant on the plan, or any row below.Tap any plant on the plan.

See all 22 plants in the schedule

Plant schedule for the sample planting plan
Code	Water	Season	Qty
QUA	Very low	Evergreen; catkins in spring	1
CRH	Low	Blue flowers Mar–Apr; evergreen; limbed up to 6 ft	1
ARM	Low	Evergreen; rose flowers Oct–Mar, red fruit Nov–Feb	1
MAL	Moderate	Blossom Mar–Apr; fruit Aug–Oct (Gala, Golden Delicious, then Fuji); three cultivars so they cross-pollinate	3
HET	Low	White flowers Jun–Jul; red berries Nov–Jan; unclipped screen, 8–10 ft	5
FRC	Low	Evergreen; berries Aug–Oct, red turning black	6
RIS	Low	Pink flowers Jan–Mar; deciduous	3
CEY	Low	Blue flowers Mar–Apr; no summer water once established	6
ERF	Very low	White-pink flowers May–Sep; rust seed heads Oct–Dec	3
EPC	Low	Scarlet flowers Aug–Oct; hummingbirds	14
IRD	Low	Lavender-blue flowers Mar–May; evergreen clumps, part shade	7
MON	Low	Lavender flowers Jun–Aug; aromatic, a bee plant	9
PEM	Low	Blue-violet flowers Apr–Jul	22
HEM	Low	Pale pink flowers Mar–May; evergreen, takes shade	24
SIB	Low	Blue flowers Mar–May; summer dormant	53
ESC	Very low	Orange flowers Mar–Jun; plugs to start, then sown in fall; reseeds	22
MUR	Low	Tan plumes Jun–Sep	7
FEC	Low	Blue-green tufts; flower stems in May	27
CXP	Low	No-mow parkway; green most of the year, tan in drought	315
STP	Very low	Purple-tinged seed heads Apr–Jun, then summer gold	31
COF	Low	Lavender daisies Jul–Oct; silver foliage	10
DUB	Very low	Chalk-white rosette; red-orange flower stems Apr–Jul	8

Concept render · sample design for illustration, not a client project

See the sample plan in 3D

Where we work

Based in Contra Costa County, serving the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and surrounding areas. We'll come to you, or design from your photos. Your call.

Site visits, anywhere we serve

We drive to you across the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and surrounding areas. A flat $50 travel fee is added to your quote only when getting to you means a bridge crossing.

Or design from your photos

Prefer to skip the visit? Send photos and a short walkthrough video after you book, and we design from those, wherever you are.

Where we work

BridgeContra Costa County, where we’re based

Illustration · schematic, not to scale

Photo of Calvin coming soon

Drawn by

Who you'll work with

Ponte Design is run by Calvin Hersey, based in Contra Costa County. You'll deal with Calvin directly, from your first photos to your final planting plan.

DesignerCalvin Hersey

Based inContra Costa County

Why we’re called Ponte

FAQ

Questions, answered

Three quick answers. The rest are on the FAQ page.

All questions

What do I get for $750?

The Concept Design Package covers your front or back yard: a site visit or your photos, 2–3 concept renders of your yard, a planting plan, and one revision round. If you build with our licensed partner contractor, the $750 is credited toward installation.

Is installation included?

No. Ponte Design creates the design. Installation is performed by our licensed partner contractor, under a separate agreement with them.

Are you licensed?

See your new yard before you build it.

How it works

Show us your yard

See it in concept renders

Get your planting plan

Make the big decisions before the first shovel

See it first.

Choose plants that fit.

Start the build with a clear picture.

One package, one clear price

Concept Design Package

Here’s how a design comes together

Ray Hartman ceanothus (tree)

Where we work

Site visits, anywhere we serve

Or design from your photos

Who you'll work with

Questions, answered

The bridge to the yard you want.