The Pasadena homeowner who called Toppers Turf on a warm Tuesday morning had a simple but deeply felt request — they wanted their backyard to be green. Not occasionally green. Not green after the rainy season and brown through the summer. Not green when the sprinklers were working and the water restrictions allowed it. They wanted their backyard to be a rich, deep, vibrant, permanently lush green every single morning of the year — the kind of green that makes you smile the moment you open your back door and look outside, the kind of green that makes your children want to run outside barefoot the second they wake up, and the kind of green that makes every single person who visits your home stop in the middle of your backyard and say out loud — this is absolutely beautiful. After two decades of fighting Los Angeles’s relentless summer heat, successive years of drought water restrictions, an aging sprinkler system that never quite delivered water evenly across the whole lawn, and an annual landscaping bill that seemed to grow larger every year without the lawn ever growing more beautiful, this family had made their decision. It was time to go green — permanently, beautifully, and completely — with Toppers Turf.
Our residential consultation team visited the property and immediately understood why the homeowner felt so passionately about the transformation they were seeking. The backyard had genuine potential — a generous rectangular lawn area bordered by mature garden plantings, a covered outdoor dining patio in one corner, a small raised vegetable garden along the back fence, and a natural flow that connected the indoor living spaces to the outdoor areas through a set of wide bifold glass doors. The bones of the space were excellent. What it needed was a turf surface worthy of the space — something that would take all that potential and make it permanently, breathtakingly real. After a thorough site evaluation and product presentation our team recommended our Green Reverie turf for the primary lawn area — a product that lives up to its poetic name in every possible way. With its pine and bamboo green coloring that delivers the most intensely beautiful deep green appearance in our entire collection, its bounce-back blade technology that maintains perfect upright blade presentation even under moderate to heavy foot traffic, and its exceptional 111 ounce per square yard weight that gives the surface a luxuriously dense and substantial feel underfoot that homeowners consistently describe as the most natural-feeling artificial grass they have ever walked on, Green Reverie was the perfect and only choice for a homeowner whose single overriding priority was the most beautiful deep green lawn imaginable.
The installation team arrived at seven in the morning and by the time the afternoon sun was casting long golden shadows across the freshly completed lawn the transformation was complete and the results were genuinely spectacular. The backyard had been reborn. Where patchy, stressed natural grass had struggled and failed for years, a carpet of deep, rich, breathtaking green now stretched from the bifold doors to the back fence in a single unbroken sweep of pure color and texture that looked like something from the pages of an architectural design magazine. The homeowner stood in the middle of the finished lawn for a long quiet moment before looking up at our installation team with an expression that required no words at all. That evening the family ate dinner outside on their patio for the first time in years — surrounded by the green backyard they had always wanted and finally, permanently had. The homeowner messaged our team the following morning with a single photograph — their youngest child lying spread-eagle in the middle of the new lawn, arms and legs outstretched, face turned up to the Los Angeles sunshine, grinning from ear to ear. The caption read simply — this is everything we wanted. Thank you.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Total area: 3,600 sq ft backyard lawn
- Product used: Green Reverie Deep Green Heavy-Traffic Turf
- Installation time: 2 business days
- Pile height: 1.75 inches — dense luxurious appearance
- Blade color: Pine green and bamboo green — deepest color in collection
- Turf weight: 111 oz per square yard — heaviest most luxurious feel
- UV color rating: 10 out of 10 — permanent deep green color
- Drainage rate: 41.4 inches per hour
- Blade technology: Bounce-back wave blade — permanent upright appearance
- Safety: 100% PFAS-free — child-safe and pet-friendly
- Water savings: Estimated 160,000 gallons per year
- Previous annual lawn cost: $5,600 per year
- New annual lawn cost: Zero
- Warranty: 15-year full product and workmanship warranty
- Result: Family eating dinner outside for first time in years on day one