Rockrose Landscape Design

Sustainable garden design, consulting and coaching in Santa Barbara and vicinity

Rock wall in front of a house featuring a palm tree, grasses, and yellow flowers
Rob Lane in a garden

About Rob Lane

With over 45 years of garden design and horticultural experience, I have an intimate familiarity with California native plants and other beautiful plants from around the world that require minimal watering.

I specialize in Sustainable Garden Design and ‘Re-wilding’ — creating gardens that have a natural feel, thrive with little water and often mimic local ecological conditions. The gardens are natural, stylish, beautiful and functional.

Over the years, I have had gardens featured in Sunset, Santa Barbara and California Homes magazines and a pamphlet on Sustainable Landscaping published by the City of Santa Barbara. I have also received awards from Santa Barbara Beautiful.

I also help with efficient irrigation design, rainwater harvesting and can provide you with plants and garden layout prior to planting.

I can create detailed landscape plans, or simply assist you as a CONSULTANT or COACH, providing expert guidance and support as needed.

Together, we can create a garden that really works for you!

Garden Inspirations: Our Projects

Visit our galleries to see samples of the beautiful gardens that Rob Lane has created.

A house with a front garden of plants that work well in California.

Sustainable Landscape Design

A house with a front yard full of mud from flooding.

Up from the Mud—Rewilding after Floods

Natural grasses and wildflowers.

Meadows—Beautiful and Water Conscious

Three terracotta flower pots with an assortment of colorful flowers.

Container Gardens

A pond with lily pads and aquatic plants surrounded by rocks for a natural appearance.

Ponds & Creeks

A variety of succulents in a container garden.

Succulents