Environs Landscape Architecture

Landscape design in San Diego, CA

ENVIRONS Landscape Architecture, Inc. provides professional landscape architecture and urban design services to public and private clients. Established in 1989 by principal and owner, Martin Schmidt, Environs has worked on a wide variety or project types and scales, including the planning and design of civic and public works projects, parks, and recreational facilities, schools and institutions, industrial parks, mixed-use commercial and corporate sites, estate residential, and select planned communities.

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Latest news

‘Giving Back to the Community’

Environs is giving back to local communities by volunteering with the Point Loma Association to help beautify the entrance median into Point Loma and Ocean Beach.  This median is located between Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Nimitz Boulevard and is the gateway entrance into the Point Loma and Ocean Beach communities.  Read more »

Environs creates drought-tolerant demonstration garden in Little Italy / San Diego

At our office location in Little Italy, Environs is in the process of creating a series of garden vignettes of different plant materials to demonstrate what can be done with drought tolerant gardens and how beautiful they can look.

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Water use assessment process helps clients comply with San Diego water use restrictions

Environs, in conjunction with our collaboration team, has developed a process to assess, evaluate and quantify the current water use of a property, business park and / or residential community along with recommendations on what needs to be implemented to reduce water consumption to comply with the 20% water reduction taking effect on July 1, 2009.

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Sunset Cliffs “Gateway”

Environs is pleased to have been the studio to have designed and collaborated with the Ocean Beach Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) and the City of San Diego for the Sunset Cliffs / Nimitz Boulevard Gateway into Ocean Beach and Point Loma.

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