Gardens on El Paseo

Palm Desert, California

Client: Madison Marquette Realty

The Gardens on El Paseo is an up-scale retail complex in the heart of the premiere shopping district known as El Paseo. The two-level retail environment provides fashionable shops and restaurants in a cool and lively setting in the California desert.

Within the development, a series of gardens provide spirited water features and landscape spaces for visitors to enjoy. These gardens furnish areas of sun, shade, color, and bold patterns reflecting the character of the arid climate. Environmental art and graphics represent and explain the desert region and its rich history. A large garden floor in the center of the site is formed by natural stone materials through which palms, flowering trees, and succulents can grow. In the spring, flowering native annuals emerge from the desert arroyo, signaling the vitality of the desert and the Gardens on El Paseo.