Landscaping

Mosaic Oaks features a truly unique landscape theme. The home sites feature indigenous trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals with a minimum of turf. The community's common areas feature significantly more turf which provide community "yard space", but tie in with the home sites by virtue of their selection of trees, shrubs and other plants that border the turfed areas. The center-points of the community's common areas are two large ponds which can be accessed directly via the turfed areas or from above on one of two community pergolas that were built over the ponds. In addition to providing an eco-friendly theme to the exterior spaces, the selection of plants provides a very colorful and the arrangement of the landscape elements provides a very relaxing backdrop.

In close relationship to the landscape design is the community's ingenious irrigation system. Featuring a single well that provides water to all thirty two lots and the common areas, the electrical efficiency is incomprehensibly greater than having one well for each lot. Additionally, the consumption of landscape water is minimized by using a single source. Of course, with indigenous plant life, the long term prospects are for the landscape to be almost completely self sustaining. In the meantime, the irrigation distribution methodology around the homes is exclusively via soaker hoses and bubblers. By eliminating sprays and rotors, water is used more efficiently because their is far less evaporation. Furthermore, irrigation water, which is notoriously composed of various minerals such as iron, is contained to the ground surface rather than being sprayed on the sides of homes where it leaves stains. As with many of the other details of the homes in Mosaic Oaks, the landscape is a truly distinctive element of this community.