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Claudia Boulton
Hillside Garden in Rio Del Mar
This hillside garden artfully combines of formal hardscapes with informal plantings. It features several specialty areas including the Native Hillside, the Shade Garden, the California Cottage Garden, the Companion Planting Demonstration Garden (future site of the Rose Garden), and the Succulent Corner. Plans future development of the Autumn Triangle and the Spring Garden will be displayed. Claudia has been a Master Gardener since 1999 and is also a landscape designer.
This hillside garden artfully combines of formal hardscapes with informal plantings. It features several specialty areas including the Native Hillside, the Shade Garden, the California Cottage Garden, the Companion Planting Demonstration Garden (future site of the Rose Garden), and the Succulent Corner. Plans future development of the Autumn Triangle and the Spring Garden will be displayed. Claudia has been a Master Gardener since 1999 and is also a landscape designer.
Pat Davis
Petite Garden –
A Manageable Oasis
My sweet little garden is tucked into a busy neighborhood but not visible from the street. It has a variety of ferns, annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Though the apricot tree is somewhat large for the space, there is nothing like a tasty apricot right off the tree. There is not enough space for a true vegetable garden, but you will find pots with herbs and a tomato plant growing up-side-down. Groupings of containers add color and variety. It’s just enough space to keep me busy and interested in gardening, and it leaves me time for my other interests
My sweet little garden is tucked into a busy neighborhood but not visible from the street. It has a variety of ferns, annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Though the apricot tree is somewhat large for the space, there is nothing like a tasty apricot right off the tree. There is not enough space for a true vegetable garden, but you will find pots with herbs and a tomato plant growing up-side-down. Groupings of containers add color and variety. It’s just enough space to keep me busy and interested in gardening, and it leaves me time for my other interests
Ann Weeks
A Hobby Farm
Three levels of terraced hillside are home to this three-acre“hobby farm.” A pumpkin patch, an annual and perennial cutting garden and various vegetable plantings grow in the composted top level. Fruit trees, flowers and raspberries grow in the middle. On the first level, chickens and ducks
are housed in interesting coops. The wooden water tank with an inverted satellite dish for a roof and red shutters is a fascinating Honey House.
Three levels of terraced hillside are home to this three-acre“hobby farm.” A pumpkin patch, an annual and perennial cutting garden and various vegetable plantings grow in the composted top level. Fruit trees, flowers and raspberries grow in the middle. On the first level, chickens and ducks
are housed in interesting coops. The wooden water tank with an inverted satellite dish for a roof and red shutters is a fascinating Honey House.
Barbara Gordon
Garden Rooms
This garden incorporates many good ideas for small-area urban gardeners. In separate "rooms" you will find sitting areas and humorous garden accessories, vegetables in raised beds, fruit trees (some espaliered), a Japanese style area, an English garden area, a hillside planted with California natives and a terrace planted with Australian natives. There is also a small woodland area and a wall hung with potted succulents.
This garden incorporates many good ideas for small-area urban gardeners. In separate "rooms" you will find sitting areas and humorous garden accessories, vegetables in raised beds, fruit trees (some espaliered), a Japanese style area, an English garden area, a hillside planted with California natives and a terrace planted with Australian natives. There is also a small woodland area and a wall hung with potted succulents.
Homeless Garden Project
Natural Bridges Farm
The Homeless Garden is a certified organic garden where principles of economic and ecological sustainable gardening are taught in classes and through hands-on experience. The garden comprises approximately 2.5 acres of potting/ propagation sheds and gardens in which crops, annuals
and perennials are grown. The World Hunger Year, an organization that leads the fight against hunger and poverty, has recognized the garden as a model program.
The Homeless Garden is a certified organic garden where principles of economic and ecological sustainable gardening are taught in classes and through hands-on experience. The garden comprises approximately 2.5 acres of potting/ propagation sheds and gardens in which crops, annuals
and perennials are grown. The World Hunger Year, an organization that leads the fight against hunger and poverty, has recognized the garden as a model program.
Candice McLaren
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Evolution of a Westside Garden
In my front yard, where my goal is to create a real drought tolerant garden, I used large boulders to create a dry basin which I surrounded with low water-use plants.
Meandering through the back garden is a mariposa slate and pea gravel path. A redbud tree grows near a large navel orange surrounded by concrete curbs and red lava rock. I love growing vegetables, fruit trees, and flowering plants, and spend a lot of time in the garden. It’s only a small garden but it’s a whole lot of fun!