preserve and emphasize the existing exterior stone retaining walls integrate the walls naturally into the landscape design making them a prominent architectural feature remove invasive and overgrown vegetation covering or obscuring the stonework clean and restore the appearance of the walls while maintaining a natural realistic look replace invasive plants with a curated mediterranean landscape composed of low maintenance native shrubs flowering plants ornamental grasses lavender rosemary thyme cistus and small evergreen bushes add vegetation in a controlled and harmonious way along the embankments respecting the stone walls and highlighting their texture create a refined natural and well maintained landscape design with realistic planting density and professional landscape architecture quality