This small city garden is about play and delight. It was an honor (and good fun) working with an artist/owner to invent an environment for his outdoor life and for some of his quirky sculptures and installations...

For this Berkeley Hills property, our wildest project, an adventurous client allowed us to experiment with various approaches to habitat and erosion control. We restored a steep hillside, bringing back native grasses and wildflowers...

Our first big project in the Bay Area, we began on this Oakland Hills garden in 2003, only a decade after the property was destroyed by the Oakland fire. This was initially a native garden but the owner has eclectic tastes...

In Altadena, one of our simplest gardens. The brief, from a good friend, was to use plants native to California and the wider, arid Southwest. The site is at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains and the terrain has a lot of large granite cobbles...

A sweet, small project in the avenues of San Francisco. We created some nice woodwork in this split tier garden using redwood and aluminum mesh to make a see-through screen for the stair handrail. A circular path makes the drone view distinctive...

Extreme gardening in this small notch garden in San Francisco. The project is tucked in the middle of a classic art deco building on a steep hill overlooking Alcatraz and the San Francisco Bay. Access involves climbing a 70 step concrete staircase...

This rental property garden backs onto a rare wild open space on one of San Francisco’s hilltops. It was a great opportunity to do a habitat garden to extend the reach of the natural environment that is just over the fence. Our great...

We have had a lot of pleasure designing and making custom garden things for our friend Daniel Ostrow, who has a beautiful and tiny garden on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. The garden was designed 36 years ago by his partner, the talented...

A city garden makeover. A joy garden! The project needed to sing with the client’s playful creativity, quirky sense of humor, and her eclectic collection of objects. And we made it rhyme with the architecture of the curvy deck. In the temperate...

This city garden, which encompasses a busy sidewalk, needed to be built to last in the public zone, which can be quite brutal. We used gravel as mulch and snappy succulents for flash and a touch of psychedelia in this very publicly enjoyed...