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This month, Garden Design asked their contributors “What’s the best green idea you’ve discovered in a garden this year?” Contributor Debra Prinzing replied: Southern California is a sea of backyard concrete, which is anything but sustainable. So I’m impressed with the way L.A. garden designer Stephanie Bartron, APLD, of SB Garden Design makes her clients’…
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Stephanie has completed the G3LA sustainable design program and is now a G3 Certified Landscape Professional. This program included training on water harvesting (both active and passive), low-water irrigation systems, organic gardening and soil amendment, lawn alternatives, water use and budgeting calculation, and much more. We are excited to be part of the sustainable movement…
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Our entry in the recent LA Garden Show, as part of the APLD group booth. Filled with herbs, salad greens and edible flowers, these vintage Samsonite suitcases were recycled as portable salad gardens. Add a luggage stand, and they are perfect for apartment dwellers with a sunny window or small patio.
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Just got these pictures from a happy client. He celebrated the New Year with friends at his fab new pad, designed by Barbara Bestor. This Venice home is designed to evoke “floating clouds” and we played along with cantilevered details in the entry path and patio. In springtime the house will be fronted by a…
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As a mother and a garden designer, I am really interested in the way that children use outdoor spaces. Often, given everyone’s busy schedules, it is the children who spend the most time in the gardens. As they grow, their needs change, too. After addressing safety concerns, the two things parents most often request are…
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(Click on the photo above to enlarge) Another dramatic transformation. New stairs created a safer, more welcoming entry, a small patio is now a comfortable outdoor dining room, and an unused side yard has a path and a meadow play-yard.. More photos of this lovely home and garden were profiled by Apartment Therapy, and the house…
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Building around the large euphorbia already in the front yard, we replaced the old metal fence with a new bamboo one. We planted a mix of colorful, low-water succulents, grasses and perennials. The side yard is now a series of outdoor living rooms, with built-in seating, a firepit, and herb planters. A tiny front yard…
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Another hillside transformation! A new outdoor kitchen and colorful flagstone completed the upper patio. We added new stairs to provide access to the lower yard. And the ivy covered hillside was re-planted with ecclectic, colorful, low water California friendly plants.
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From disaster to Mediterranean oasis. This garden features new decks, play lawn, vegetable beds, built in bbq, fire-bowl, decomposed granite and tile patios, and low voltage lighting. Photos above show part of the transformation – we kept the mature orange tree in the foreground, but everything else is brand new.
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Fritz Haeg has an amazing installation right now at Descanso Gardens. “Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people!”
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