Gather ideas. In order to create beauty in your garden, says California artist Marie del Carmen Calvo, you need ideas. Gather images to draw from. Visit museums, walk through gardens, take a hike, she says. Beauty i
1. PLANT ITAfter the solid driveway of this Palo Alto property was replaced with twin ribbons of concrete, landscape architect Jeni Webber planted the new median strip with low-growing echeverias, dwarf daffodils, s
Living with the new wave of wildfire
Numbers at a glance4.5 million: Acres burned in the West last year30: number of seconds it takes a fire in your house to double in size900 degrees: How hot a wildfire can get (Fahrenheit)94: Percentage of California
An alpine plunge in the backyard
BEFORE: The cookie-cutter oval pool and its surrounding flat concrete slab offered little visual attraction. Overgrown landscaping blocked views.AFTER: A landscape of manmade boulders colored and textured to mimic g
Urn as patio table - or container for a living bouquet
Patio table greenhouseWhen Sunsets test garden coordinator Bud Stuckey roots succulents, he puts them in an 18-inch-diameter urn filled to 6 1/2 inches below the rim with potting soil, then centers a 24-inch round o
Something had always marred the view from Mimi Jensen and George Elbaums family room: it was the black tar-and-crushed granite roof of their garage. Then Jensen saw a depression in the gravel and the shadow it cast.
Garden remodels happen for all kinds of reasons, but plant-eating pigs arent usually one of them―unless you live in javelina country. After tolerating multiple attacks by these pig relatives, Cliff and Edna Osborne
Theres nothing like large vases filled with blooming branches to announce the arrival of spring. Just trim the branches from deciduous flowering trees or shrubs, arrange them in a vase, and watch the delicate buds u
A water hyacinth floats in a glass vase, which shows off the plants delicate roots.If you cant find floating water plants at your nursery (or if you dont have access to a pond from which to borrow one), gently place
Beach properties come with a price, gardenwise as well as dollarwise. The views are great, of course. But the salty onshore breezes are challenging for all but the toughest plants. The strip in front of Abbott and M
Kirk and Teri Doughty wanted to make room for a productive vegetable garden without losing the lawn their children love to play on. Landscaper David Tubberville helped them develop a series of raised beds that step
This natural-looking creek works its way down a gentle slope―by trickling over terraces of stone―before spilling into a backyard pond in San Mateo, California.For an investment of about $500 and the equivalent of th
A borders design doesnt have to be complicated. Just keep taller perennials at the back and shorter ones up front. Decide which colors to plant side by side.Separate by several yards flowers whose colors clash, or d
Nothing says autumn like the scent of woodsmoke and the gold and red hues of tree leaves, ornamental grasses, and late flowers. Leigh Anne and Mark Yuhasz know this better than most: Theyve combined these elements i
Sunny border for three seasons
Flowers that bloom over a long season and require only modest amounts of water or time ― isnt that what we all want?We can have it, too, as long as we choose the right plants, says Sharon Finkle, a landscape archite
How to add interest to your garden beds
Angle. Think about how the bed looks from different parts of the garden ― from paths, patios, or other gathering places, or from living room windows. Angle the bed for best viewing from one or more of those location
Josiah Cain, a landscape architect and water-systems expert based in Marin County, California, is best known for his work on San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences ― he helped create its spectacular 2½-acre,
The garden of Judy and Ken Robins is a feast for the eyes and the palate. Known as a potager (from the French word potage, or soup), this style of garden mingles edible and ornamental plants. For example, in this be
Redwood City, California: Plant lovers paradise
Finally, Pamela Ryan was going to have her own garden. After years of waiting, she had a vision of the beds and borders she wanted. In fact, she had sketched a number of different possibilities when she met designer
On sun-drenched Sundays, Norm and Lynn Ginsburgs Encinitas backyard resonates with birdsong, the clink of ice cubes in tall glasses of lemonade, and the gentle thwack of mallets hitting wooden croquet balls through
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