Blue Agave Landscape Design Project After whetting your appetite for planting your own meadow and inspiring visions of golden grasslands, we want to show you a different way of using the “no lawns” concept. Adan Venegas of Blue Agave Landscape in Santa Barbara used lots of Italian terracotta rolled rim pots for planting (surprise!) agaves…
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Musings On Design: Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Part 1
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture and the Spirit of Place The spirit of a place. This concept comes up throughout our interview with Jeffrey Gordon Smith, principal architect of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture based in Baywood-Los Osos, CA. There is a respect and celebration of space throughout the work of Smith and his firm….
Book Review: The American Meadow Garden by John Greenlee
“We’ve reached a stage where we can no longer follow past practices unthinkingly, particularly when those practices are wasteful and injurious to the environment. It’s time to get rid of the old-fashioned lawn and embrace a sane and healthy future: the designed meadow.” – John Greenlee In The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative…
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of the Romantic Garden
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Long time Eye of the Day customer Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Company recently installed three Italian terracotta Sako balls in a Santa Barbara garden. The three globes, provided by Eye of the Day, were custom colored by the company’s Service department. Null describes…
Montecito Landscape Refine a Santa Barbara Garden
Blueprint: Montecito Landscape Refine a Santa Barbara Garden Chris Cullen, the founder of Montecito Landscape, began landscaping at the tender age of eight at his family home in Los Altos Hills, CA. He got his contractor’s license in 1970 and moved to Montecito and named his company after his new home town. Since then, Montecito Landscape…
Rebecca Sweet On Shades of Gray in the Garden
One of my favorite gardens that I designed a few years ago is a great example of how you can replace a water-thirsty lawn with lush looking, and less thirsty, plants. One of the most successful strategies we used was to swap out the turf lawn and install a drought-tolerant Dymondia margaratea ‘lawn’ in its…
