Images from The Stinson Beach Project - a drought and deer tolerant garden overlooking the beach and backing up to The Golden Gate National Seashore Park.

Treading lightly on the land a variety of poppies , ornamental grasses and site specific sustainable plants were planted.

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May in the Pina Colada garden

Modern Exterior by Washington Architect WNUK SPURLOCK Architecture
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Gardens by the Bay in Singapore

A preview of 'Gardens by the Bay' in Singapore - two weeks until we leave on our trip.

Pacific Orchid Expo

The Pacific Orchid Expo hit San Francisco this past weekend.
Lots of beautiful orchids .
The San Francisco Bromeliad Society was invited to install a display table top garden and to have a sales booth.

I just got home from packing up the show ... I'm bushed.

Here are a few photos of the display garden that several members of the club worked on.

From bromeliad table-scape

From bromeliad table-scape

From bromeliad table-scape

Entrance vignette to the show : it was in celebration of the golden gate bridge

From bromeliad table-scape

From bromeliad table-scape

One of the orchid exhibits

From bromeliad table-scape

Mock ups for the upcoming Garden Show in S.F.

Slowing chipping away at building the modular units for the upcoming S.F. Garden show that is opening its doors to the public in late March.

The space that I am working within is a tiny 4x8 area. There will be about 8 or 10 of these spaces and they are being called " Small Space Gardens".

The basic layout :
3 boxes - A plinth for the buddha, a 2x6 planter and a small water basin.

From 2012 garden show

A preliminary planting mock up using plants from my container garden collection :

From 2012 garden show

There will be a simple overhead arbor that I will hang tillandsias from and mount some lighting .

I'm also working on a small vertical garden, 1x3 , that will be inset into the back wall

From 2012 garden show