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Desert · Back yard

Mid-century desert house, pool garden

Behind a white mid-century desert house, the pool terrace paved in warm clay tones with a pair of sling chairs and tall weathering-steel planters of cactus and agave at the doors, and the rest of the yard in gravel with blue agave, golden barrel cactus and boulders, a palo verde and an ocotillo fence.

YardRemake Studio

USDA Zone 10
Mid-century desert house, pool garden — the original photo
Mid-century desert house, pool garden — the finished design

Showing the finished design

How this design was made

The before is an AI-generated stand-in, not a customer’s yard. The after is our engine’s unedited Desert design for zone 10, with the Tall Corten Steel Planter added by the studio’s own planter step. Every pin comes from our plant-identification pass, never placed by hand, and passes a second, independent check. The close-ups re-imagine what the main view doesn’t show, so a path, a step or a pot can differ.

The planting list

Named at the level the design was identified at; the species we stock link to their care pages.

Barrel cactus
Ferocactus spp.
Agave
Agave spp.
Palo Verde
Parkinsonia spp.
Yucca
Yucca spp.
Prickly pear cactus
Opuntia spp.
Organ pipe cactus
Stenocereus thurberi

Planters in this design

From our planter library. Each one opens its page, where you can plant it up in the Planter Builder.

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