A Gardener's Thoughts & Fancies

Sunset Plaza Makeover – Completed

Tweet In August’s “Notes & News,” I introduced you to a “A Sunset Plaza Makeover,” the landscape I was designing and building for an international film produce and his family. In November, I followed up by showing you what was involved in creating the garden’s “Wall of Water.” And now, after eight months, the planning and designing [...]

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Landscape Design – Building A Wall Of Water

Tweet In August’s “Notes & News,” I introduced you to a “A Sunset Plaza Makeover,” the landscape I was designing for an international film producer and his family. The construction has been completed, the planting is coming to an end and the D.D. Blanchard Magnolias I featured in that newsletter are doing brilliantly.This has been [...]

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A Sunset Plaza Makeover

Tweet Once Upon A Time … High in the Hollywood Hills, above Sunset Plaza, an international film producer and his family had grown tired of the mundane landscaping surrounding their home and decided it was time to produce a “Makeover.” So the film producer Googled “Los Angeles Landscape Designer” and, lo and behold, up popped [...]

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Hardscape Your Landscape – Say What?

Tweet It’s summer and it’s time to move outdoors and enjoy our fabulous California weather.  But unless you have a patio, or a terrace, a pergola, gazebo or some other form of “hardscape” the best you will be able to do is to sit in a ch air in the grass and watch Rover bound [...]

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Brighten Up Your Garden With Containers!

Tweet Summer is upon us – almost – and as the gloom of June becomes sunny July we’re going to be living outdoors a whole lot more. If your terrace, deck, balcony, patio, gazebo, swimming pool or wherever it is you park yourself is in need of some TLC, then the fastest and most economical [...]

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