GARDENESQUE 360 BLOG
Our team, and other designers, nature enthusiasts, photographers, horticulturists, and professionals, contribute to this story of the garden experience.
This historic Mission Dolores house was deserving of much more than a conventional remodel. In order to preserve the charm of the neighborhood, San Francisco city regulations had precluded doing any major alterations to the front of the house. Our client was after a very lush, gardenesque statement for the façade of the residence.
When Davis Dalbok pulled up to the gate of a 24 acre parcel near Hawaii’s Puna Coast, he quickly realized that the only way in was with a machete.
Living Green has created a fantastical homage to climate change, global warming and rising seas with their Telegraph Hill garden for San Francisco Showcase 2016, 'The Sea Is Rising'.
The 3,800 plants we added into the vertical garden to increased oxygen, sound reduction, cooling air from the plant transpiration, not to mention a beautiful garden to enjoy while eating.
It all began with an insatiable fascination with the living world; an incurable desire at a ridiculously young age (five) to know, learn and understand all that I could about the natural world around me.
Seven years ago I was asked to design a subtropical urban oasis for a very special client. The site had been completely demolished and reduced to a gentle dirt slope that required a detailed landscape architectural solution to include privacy, parking, terrace and garden.
We sprung 'out of the box', with the creation of several large vertical garden projects, including an uber cool roof permaculture picking garden for Anchor Distilling.
The San Francisco Decorator Showcase is widely considered to be the West Coast’s premier design showhouse event, renowned for featuring the work of the region’s top interior and landscape designers.