Musing on Design: Bonsai – Tiny Landscaping Using Very Little Water Eye of the Day’s interest in gardening, plants and outdoor living goes beyond residential and commercial landscape architecture and into a special type of gardening—almost a form of intellectual gardening—with Joe Kalina, a man who is certainly musing on design. Joe is always interested…
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How a Landscape Architect Approaches Garden Design During California Drought
Having a sister with a long, successful career as a landscape architect has made it easy to have an ongoing conversation with Sally Farnum about design, client concerns and current issues. We are all especially interested in California’s water problem and wanted to find out how Sally is helping her clients address the issue. Suzi:…
Masterpiece: Virginia Robinson Gardens 27th Annual Garden Tour
FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS Cordially invite you to our twenty-seventh annual “…into the garden Benefit Tour” Saturday, May 16, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Grand Marshal Victoria Tennant New this year – Valet Parking Valet parking must be purchased prior to the day of Garden Tour. Virginia Robinson Estate and Tours of Four Exquisite Beverly…
Planting in the Edges and Cracks of a Garden
Planting in the Edges and Cracks of a Garden For several years I tried to get a lovely, drought tolerant plant established in my garden. Lychnis coronaria is a perennial that forms low-growing rosettes of gray-green leaves that in late spring and summer sends up glorious stalks of dark magenta flowers. It just refused to…
Book Review – Sun Drenched Gardens: The Mediterranean Style
Sun Drenched Gardens: The Mediterranean Style by Jan Smithen Author Jan Smithen and photographer Lucinda Lewis have put together a beautiful and pertinent book that is even more noteworthy today than it was when it was published in 2002. Mediterranean-style gardens offer easy maintenance as well as water-saving planting that is environmentally sound and enormously…
The Landscape Professional and Client Relationship Part 2
The Landscape Professional and Client Relationship, Part II Principal at Arcadia Studio in Santa Barbara and a resident of Los Olivos, Carol Puck Erickson, ASLA, has an extensive portfolio of residences and arid gardens in Arizona and beautiful installations throughout California, Puck was initially educated in the visual arts, which still informs her work. She…
