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48 Snake Bitten
Sometimes called snake plants and other times mother-in-
law's tongue, sansevierias are bulletproof— ideal for begin-
ning gardeners and top-drawer designers alike, at home in
the garden or indoors in planters. BY JENNY ANDREWS

56 California Dreamin'
When his client moved from the East Coast to San Rafael,
California, and fell in love with an Eichler house, Davis
Dalbok created the ultimate companion garden for it —
complete with boldly colored and shaped plants, defined
outdoor rooms and a midcentury spirit. BY MEGAN PADILLA

66 A Pool by Jungle & Sea

The cascading jungle of Rio's hills are a dramatic backdrop
to a contemporary pool garden designed by Sao Paulo-
based architect and landscape designer Paulo Pratti for
this Brazilian getaway. BY PAULA DE LA CRUZ

74 Holding Court s s
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a lush water garden, a dramatic classical Balinese garden this Southampton garden is not only stylish, it's sustainable.
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DEPARTMENTS 36 SWATCH WATCH 86 LANDSCAPE

Textiles in elegant hues emanate Garden curator and "vision keeper"
8 FROM THE EDITORS
a relaxing vibe in a garden room cast Sadafumi Uchiyama is defining the integrity
13 CONTRIBUTORS as a spalike sanctuary. of the Pordand Japanese Garden while bring-
ing a new level of public engagement.
15 FRESH 38 GARDEN GOURMET
Flora Grubb's living wall; (enny Andrews Is your garden space little more than a glori- 88 SOURCEBOOK
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McRickard; Philadelphia parks, nurseries outdoor kitchen awaits. mentioned and shown in our pages.
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45 LIVING GREEN 96 ON DESIGN
24 PLANT PALETTE A four-season, low-maintenance garden in Julie Moir Messervy's new book, Home
Now seen in glowing new colors, calla lilies the Hamptons showcases the signature style Outside, lays out her design theory. The long
surely belong in the garden — and in vases of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates. and short of it? She finds ways to create a
and containers. sense of comfort in the garden — for playing,
GROUNDBREAKER eating, frolicking. "You can event tryst there,"
As a cross between New York City's in- she says.
32 STYLE
All these small things have big impact: space- dustrial past and a synthesis of landscape
saving designs for the garden that pack a lot architecture, ecology and art. James Corner's
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saving idea you've seen ortried in a small garden?

■< Megan Padilla, senior editor and writer,

Fresh and California Dreamin', pp. 15 and 56:
"The Davis Dalbok garden featured in this
issue is not large at all. I love how he placed
a massive mirror against the fence behind
layers of plantings and the edge of the basalt
patio. The mirror goes mostly unnoticed but
creates the illusion of an extended part of the
garden that isn't there at all."

> Shawn Bean, writer. Fresh, p. 15: "When

I lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side, I
discovered this amazing garden while walk-
ing to Central Park. Built into the slim gap
between two high-rises, the garden had
roses, wildflowers, ornamental grasses and
trellises with bougainvillea. For an island that
has made room for 8 million people, this was
the city's best use of a tiny space."

< Rob Cardillo, photographer. Plant Palette,

p. 24: "Small gardens, including mine, tend to
be overcrowded. We keep shoehorning new
plants into densely populated beds and allow
established plantings too much freedom. I'm
slowly learning that good gardeners prune
ruthlessly, thin vigorously and chuck out un-
derperformers. The art is always in the edit." Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, and find out

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gardens that host volunteer days. Here is a sampling of sites near you; you'll find a complete list of the
organization's volunteer opportunities at gardendesign.com.

Longue Vue House and Gardens
#7 Bamboo Road
New Orleans, LA 70124
>• Every Thursday
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A. Graham, 504-669-4105
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Alcatraz Historic Gardens Project
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco, СА94123
>■ Wednesday and Friday mornings
Preregistration required
Shelagh Fritz, 415-561 -4900
slritz@gardenconservancy.org
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John P. Humes Japanese
Stroll Garden
Mill Neck, (Long Island) New York
>• Ongoing volunteer opportunities
Mary С Schmutz, 516-676-4486
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The Ruth Bancroft Garden
1552 Bancroft Road
Walnut Creek, СА 94598
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Ongoing opportunities
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vertical solutions What options do
you have when faced with a garden not much larger than a closet?
If you are San Francisco garden designer Flora Grubb, you tile it in
slate and add a planting bed, an outdoor bathtub and a vertical gar-
den. Says Grubb: "It sounds like way too much, doesn't it? And yet
when it was done, I think we accomplished more with this space
than most gardens 10 times the size. It is interesting, peaceful and
endlessly fun to look at."
I LOVE THIS PLANT WHEN IN PHILADELPHIA
The concept for the focal point of Grabb's garden was hatched
at her San Francisco nursery and showroom Flora Grubb Gardens.
"The concept of vertical gardening has been creating a huge buzz
around my store. The more that people see images of Patrick
Blanc's work [the French inventor of Le Mur Vegetal, as it is known
Drought-tolerant Sempervivum takes well to the vertical planter. In the bed
below, the foxtail asparagus fern was used to soften the look and give it move-
ment, while the succulents mixed in pick up colors from the wall garden.
GARDEN DESIGN 15
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in France], the more excited they get. We can't keep books on the sub-
ject in stock, and our customers have been asking us to do this type of
installation for them. This was a perfect opportunity to try it out."
Perfect because in this case, Grubb and her fiance, Kevin Smith,
who is also a builder, were the clients. Working with their best friend,
architect Seth Boor, the trio transformed a tiny cottage — that for
more than 50 years was Betty May's School of Tap — behind their
home in the Mission District of San Francisco into cozy living quar-
ters with about a 40-square-foot garden.
Grubb found that weight posed the largest challenge to building
a vertical garden. Their solution was to customize a wall to provide
both strength to hang the planting structure on as well as to hide an
irrigation system that is piped into the back of the piece. The water
then drips down into the planting bed below.
As for the garden itself, Grubb chose succulents for their hardi-
ness and for their jewel-box look. "Putting a frame around the plants
and hanging them on the wall like a work of art makes you think dif-
ferently about them. You see them in this unexpected context and it
makes them even more fascinating. It reminds me of a mandala [a
geometric design representing the universe and used as a spiritual
aid in meditation]. It draws you in."
When it comes to her small-space garden, Grubb says: "The les-
son is that less is more only when more is too much. Let your small
garden spaces live large." floragrubb.com — MEGAN PADILLA
16 G A R D E N D E S I G N APRIL 09
GREEN-WALL DESIGNERS
>■ Jane Hansen of Lango Hansen Landscape Architects led her team in
repurposing the exterior of an outdated Portland, Oregon, Days Inn Hotel
into the oh-so-relevant Hotel Modera. The focal point is a green-wall
system comprised of l-foot-by-l-foot planted cells — each containing
only one species of plant — arranged in a grid pattern. Next up? A green
wall for an interior lobby space that will call upon a palette of tropical
plants, langohansen.com
>■ When faced with designing plantings for an 800-square-foot, year-round-
use rooftop garden on a Manhattan brownstone, Michael Madarash of
KokoBo Plantscapes added a 14-foot-tall vertical garden comprised
entirely of sedums. His firm has been experimenting at its garden center
for about two years and has a half-dozen vertical gardens soon t o be
installed. Says Madarash, "While cost may be prohibitive in certain situa-
tions, everyone is interested!" kokobo.com
>- Boston's third-generation floral designer Winston Flowers has launched
a new branch of the business: custom garden design and installation. On
their hot list? Green walls. Winston made a splash in certain circles with
a temporary wall created for the 2008 charity event, Dining by Design,
last year in Boston. Though the installation was created out of cut
materials, the design firm has all its suppliers tagged to provide the real
thing, winstonflowers.com
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When San Diego interior designer and
colorist Kathleen Roarty wanted to cre-
ate a livable outdoor room, she searched
in vain for designer pillows that could
work under "real life" situations. The re-
sult was the launch last summer of Mint
Pillows, three lines of indoor-outdoor
pillows each inspired by her family's
worldwide travels. Roarty recently fell in
love with Hawaii, discovering its aloha,
or spirit, and its connecting themes of
lush flora, ocean, volcanic soil and rich
culture. These elements translated into
the Aloha line (pictured). "The colors I
chose represent the overlying green of
Hawaii and the blue-violet tone captured
at both sunrise and sunset. Both colors
complement the turquoise ocean and
the sand," says Roarty. The flora on each
honors the ubiquitous state flower, the
hibiscus, and the Monstera leaf. Each pil-
low is silk-screened and sewn by hand,
and a portion of the proceeds is donated
to various charitable and environmental
organizations — the aloha spirit indeed.
$96 each, mintpillows.com — MP
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One to Watch
COURTNEY MCRICKARD
Courtney McRickard (above) of Three Sixty Design
used water in an urban Denver residence (right) to
unify the space and drown out distracting noise. In
another project (below), she used her client's love
of art to create a focal point outdoors.
Courtney McRickard is talking — and talking
and talking — about different species of bam-
boo, eco-friendly concrete and recycled glass.
Sustainable design is McRickard's passion
as well as the focus of her Denver, Colorado,
landscape-design firm. Three Sixty Design.
While the 35-year-old is juggling several proj-
ects in and around the Rockies, she's most
excited about volunteering for PlatteForum, a
community art center in Denver where inner-
city kids create artwork and assist master art-
ists with their installations. Her contribution,
a 1,300-square-foot urban garden fashioned
mainly from sustainable materials, will be
completed this fall. — SHAWN C. BEAN
Q: What landscape designs have inspired you?
A: I love Dumbarton Oaks in Washington,
D.C, and any of Virginia's James River
plantations, including Evelynton Planta-
tion, Shirley and Westover.
Q What are the trademarks of a Courtney
McRickard design ?
A: I analyze a site, understand its parameters
and let the land reveal its own design. As de-
signers, we're taught to instill our creativity
on a space. But the best way is to let the space
continue on through the years and to recog-
nize and respect what it wants and needs.
Qj Tell me about your work with PlatteForum.
A: With the help of the local kids and two se-
nior horticulturalists from the Denver Botanic
Gardens, I'm creating an urban garden with
sustainable materials. There are steel gabion
walls that we're filling with urban refuse
— colorful glass bottles, felled limbs from
winter storms — to demonstrate how urban
waste can be reused in an artful way.
Q Why has sustainable design been such a
large part of PlatteForum ?
A: The museum's design team wanted to
raise awareness about the urban environ-
ment and how recycled materials from that
same environment can be used in creative
ways. Plus, sustainable design is an essential
part of any landscape architect's education.
Cutting Edge
CHRYSANTHEMUM, MEET LE CORBUSIER
Every day after school, Karla Dascal's mother took her to a floral mar-
ket in Little Havana, Miami, where the sunflowers, gerbera daisies
and bird-of-paradise listed in their water-filled buckets. This experi-
ence ignited Dascal's passion for fresh flowers. Or as her company's
mission statement puts it: "Florals are Karla's soul transformed
into a million-dollar art form." After studying art, architecture and
design in Boston, Dascal returned to Miami and began selling roses
imported from Ecuador. "They were these sensational, salmon-
colored roses that would last ю days," Dascal recalls. That budding
enterprise has since bloomed into — deep breath — Karla Conceptual
Event Experiences, a full-service event-planning firm in Miami's
Wynwood Art District that handles invitation design, event decor,
lighting and of course sculptural floral design, Dascal's trademark.
"Whenever you see one of my floral designs, you know it's from
me," she says. "When I began, people were still doing these big
European arrangements. We streamlined things and made them
more architectural." The Mix (pictured here) is a perfect exam-
ple. Every arrangement starts with freshly imported flowers, in
this case, South American chrysanthemums, Dutch tulips and
New Zealand flax leaves. "This arrangement alone represents three
continents," notes Dascal. Add some traditional architectural mate-
rials — steel wire and glass — then reshape the flax leaves into
Japanese calligraphic brushstrokes, and "you have art," Dascal
says proudly. "Fresh, design-driven art." karlaevents.com — SCB
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I Love This Plant
DRIMIOPSIS
It is an electric moment to be shaken from
musing over the usual offerings at a local
garden center by a plant I've never heard
of before. It's like hiking in familiar woods
and having the compass needle go haywire.
In this case, the plant tag combined the words
"succulent," "African" and "hosta" — I had
to have it.
Though neither a succulent nor a hosta
but a scilla relative from South Africa,
Drimiopsis maculata has become one of the
treasures of my little plant collection. Its sub-
tle charm, quirky schedule and simple needs
have endeared it to m e over that past few
years, tucked in a low pot by the front porch.
Forming a clump about a foot wide and tall, quite durable in my Florida garden, helped by
the spoon-shaped, fleshy leaves are speck- its natural winter dormancy, though I move it
led with brown spots when new, changing indoors if the weather gets close to freezing,
to green in summer, and a little forest of 6- to just to be safe. Partial to light shade, it can tol-
12-inch-tall, white-flowered spikes appear in erate a range of light situations, and laughs
late winter/early spring (one common name at heat, humidity and drought.
is little white soldiers).
My first thought when I brought it home
Hardy to Zone 9, it's a nice size for a con- was "fussy collector's plant, maybe it will be a
tainer, so it can be grown as a houseplant or good learning experience." But it has proved
greenhouse plant farther north. It has proved itself a risk worth taking. — JHNNY ANDRPI'S
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WHEN IN PHILADELPHIA
The greening of Philadelphia goes back to 1683, when founder
William Penn modeled its five parklike squares (still there!, though
one is now a circle) on those of Europe's "green countrie townes."
The whole Greater Philadelphia region is a temperate-zone Eden, with
fabled public gardens like Longwood and Chanticleer. But you don't
need to stray far from the brick and cobblestone streets of Center City,
abloom in April with pear and cherry blossoms, to grasp the city's three-
century-old garden obsession and see how it's playing out in the hip
Philly of today. — CARA GREENBERG
TIME TRAVEL Step into the 18th century on the corner of 4th and
Walnut, where a Colonial-style formal garden is artfully re-created
next door to Dolley Payne Todd Madison's former abode. It's a tidy
little gem, with boxwood parterres, a miniature orchard and a hand-
some vine-covered pergola. Drive some 15 minutes south of Center
City to stroll the riverfront grounds of Bartram's Garden, home of
early botanists John Bartram and his son William, and often called
America's first botanical garden (bartramsgarden.org). Heirloom
daffs and rare "broken" tulips, scattered among silverbell trees,
22 GARDEN DESIGN APRIL 09
Clockwise from top left: Take tea at the gardens at Shofuso in Fairmount
Park; get your gardening green on at City Planter in the hip hood, Northern
Liberties; visit Bartram's Garden, America's first botanical garden.
horsechestnuts and bottlebrush buckeyes, bloom in profusion this
month, along with native flame azaleas. Then check into the 15-
room Revolutionary-period Morris House Hotel (onetime home of
Robert Morris, one of the Declaration of Independence signers),
where guests can relax in the flower-filled flagstone courtyard, and
breakfast is served in the library and afternoon tea in front of a fire-
place (morrishousehotel.com).
PHILLY'S "LEFT BANK" West of the Schuylkill River, Fairmount
Park erupts in a fantasia of pink from late March through mid-April
when hundreds of cherry trees, planted in the last decade by the
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, bloom. In May, take
tea among traditional Japanese plants such as bamboo and pine, a
koi-filled pond, perfectly placed rocks and a stone pagoda at Shofuso,
the authentic Japanese house and garden built in 1953 in Nagoya,
Japan, then reassembled at the current site in 1958 (shofuso.com).
From March 30-April 18, see abstract sculpture take shape at the 92-
acre Morris Arboretum, where renowned artist Patrick Dougherty,
working with hundreds of locally gathered sticks, saplings and no
preconceptions, will weave a large-scale, site-specific creation likely
to resemble a fairy-tale dwelling (morrisarboretum.org).
MODERN PHILLY The city's rep for vanguard culture is grow-
ing.Tour the growing houses at Greensgrow, an urban farm
and nursery in the up-and-coming Kensington section; pick up
some unusual container plants and hard-to-find heirloom veg-
etable seedlings while you're there (greensgrow.org). In the liber-
hip Northern Liberties neighborhood, choose from hundreds of
containers and planters, some of which are made from antique
molds at City Planter (cityplanter.com). Indulge in chocolate-chip
pancakes, a local favorite, at the Morning Glory Diner in Bella
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COOL CALLAS
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STORY BY TOVAH MARTIN ■ PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB CARDILLO

T H E S E D U C T I O N OF CALLA LILIES IS
inescapable, and the list of calla conquests includes
everyone from Georgia O'Keeffe to Diego Rivera.
Coquettish and cloaked in sensuality, these South
African bewitchers are graceful, suggestive and
delectably obtainable — but they're not really lil-
ies. Like Jack-in-the-pulpit, Zantedeschia is in the
Araceae with an inflorescence of many flowers
sharing a long, slender spadix caped discretely
by a wraparound spathe. And callas are as easy
to cultivate as their kindred philodendrons, with
a lot more reward — there's nothing unrequited
about callas. Formerly, their domain was domes-
tic, holding the florist trade captive. And once
upon a time, that symbol of pearly white purity,
Z. aethiopica, was the only game in town. With the
spate of new spathe colors on the horizon — think
mango, cinnamon, ember, molten, vermilion,
sunset, flaxen, canary, fire engine or smeared lip-
stick — callas show no sign of slowing tempo as
cut flowers. But now, you can also ignite your gar-
den with their sensuous color range. Since 1985,
the new siren call is that callas are slipping into
garden beds and containers. The new genera-
tion of tuberous callas can be coaxed to blossom
eight weeks after planting, according to Paul
van Leeuwen of Wageningen UR/Applied Plant
Research in the Netherlands. But flower thrills
are not a calla's only gig. To keep you baited while
flowers unfurl (and after they've faded), there's a
crop of arrow-shaped foliage to speed your heart
further. These callas were photographed at world-
class breeder Kapiteyn (Captain) in Callas and
at Keukenhof in Lisse, both in the Netherlands.

SEE SOURCEBOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION. PAGE 88

< 'TREASURE'
When callas were first gaining their vibrancy 25 years
ago, Treasure' was one of the groundbreakers going for
the gold. Achieving headline status for its fiery molten-
lava shades bleeding into saffron in a graceful sheath,
it began the trend for color-soaked callas, with more-
recent newsworthy cultivars drawing out the drum roll
with lingering blossoms and increased bud count.

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CAPTAIN SAFARI®
With 'Treasure' as the benchmark, hybridizers continue to
strive for finer oranges, Captain Safari" being the latest con-
tender for the throne. What makes it fab, according to its
creator — Kapiteyn in the Netherlands — is the perfectly
spiraling round spathe shape and its high production count
of riveting flowers on long, strong stems. A buxom beauty,
it was developed for cut flowers or large urns. And mutabil-
ity is one of its charms — during a blossoms' lifespan, the
spathe turns from raging gold to apricot to parrot green.

A CAPTAIN AMIGO®
Yellows are big, but punch it up by tossing a hint of apricot
into that sunny shade, and you've got something truly se-
ductive. Plus, Captain Amigo® presents its blossoms proudly
above the broad, speckled, lance-shaped leaves, infinitely
expanding its pot-worthiness — and that's the direction
in which callas are headed. Not just cuts anymore, they're
moving outdoors.

MOZART®
Since beauty is an individual perception, it's understand-
able that each calla breeder has his own Everest. And the
'
mixed messages of bicolor spathes are the trait respon-
sible for sending a thrill through the hybridizers at Sande
B.V. of the Netherlands. In Mozart®, not only does a black
eye accent the depths of the salmon-pink spathes, but
the cloak-and-dagger package includes a graceful, wavy
sheath like a sail billowing in the breezes, culminating in a
long, green flourish at the tip.

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A PICASSO®
In 2001, when Sande B.V. hit the scene with several bi-
color breakthroughs the likes of which the world hadn't
previously seen, Picasso15 was a superstar among those
prima donnas. Large flowering and pointed in its form,
the throat of each thick, creamy vase is suffused in rosy
purple, giving the goblet depth. Developed for both con-
tainers and cut flowers, the blossoms stand head and
shoulders above the shorter, heavily dappled leaves.

A ASCARI®
Also pushing the envelope pigmentwise is Ascari®, with
shimmering gold spathes so heavily drenched with deep,
dark purple that the color isn't confined to the inner circle;
it seeps outside the challis. Suitable for cutting as well as
garden culture, the leaves are slightly lobed rather than be-
ing strictly arrow-shaped, extending the intrigue before and
after blooming.

< ODESSA®
Hinting of marvels to come, Odessa® is a glimmer of future
trends, hot off the press and just released. So dark bur-
gundy that it's classified as black, the flowers crown long,
luxuriant but also sturdy stems. And the bulbs make for fast
forcing with superabundant blossoms. What does plentiful
mean for a calla? In this case, it translates into as many as
15 sensuous flowers per bulb.

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A CAPTAIN RENO®
The ideal for a calla is a cloak drawn closely around the inflores-
cence, which describes Captain Reno® perfectly. With copious flow-
ers tucked within the white splashed leaves, the thick spathes are so
heavily pigmented pink that they blush nearly red. An added incen-
tive is that suggestive green spur on the tip, serving as a flourish.

< CAPTAIN ROMANCE®

Going full circle is what the new callas strive to do as far as flower
structure is concerned, and Captain Romance® does the perfect
pirouette. The flagship of the Kapiteyn collection, this calla's
credentials include candy-pink blossoms overlaid with syrupy
vermillion. But really, the process of unveiling each elongated cup
is what holds us spellbound. And the beauty of this hybrid is that it
blossoms over the long haul. In this instance, romance is recurring.

NATURE, NURTURE
Care: Care will be simplicity incarnate if
you erase everything you know about Z
aethiopica, because its colorful cousins
are a whole different animal. Semi-aquatic
Z. aethiopica rhizomes thirst for watering
holes, but the more-colorful hybrids
stem from Z albomaculata, Z elliotiana,
Z rehmannii and others, which hail from
higher ground, form tubers and don't share
the drinking habit. Drainage is what they
demand. Any time between February and
June (but after danger of frost is past)
bury them 3 to 4 inches deep in porous
soil directly in the garden or in containers.
Give them water when the soil is slightly
dry (but don't overdose — the new callas
dislike soggy soil), and they're good to go.
Eight weeks after planting, flower stalks
begin shooting up, and you'll be regaled by
blossoms for the next couple of months.
Before frost threatens in autumn or
early winter, whisk them indoors to rest
the tubers after their labors. If callas are
planted directly in beds, dig the tubers
from the garden or store them in their pots
in a dry 55°F environment, withholding
water for eight weeks or longer before
jump-starting the cycle again with light and
water. Zones: Although Z aethiopica has
been known to soldier on in Zones 8-10,
its colorful relatives are more comfortable
in Zones 9 and warmer. Or treat them
as tender perennials in colder climates.
Exposure: Callas bask in anything from
full sun to partial shade — bright, indirect
light being ideal. Dense shade might put
a damper on bud count, and scorching
midday summer sun can prove equally
challenging. Soil: The new color-soaked
hybrids prefer a well-drained, porous
soil. Sandy soils are simpatico if you add
fertilizer; clay soils can be tricky. Excessive
nitrogen will encourage a bounty of leaves
and long stems, squelching bud production.
In a fertile soil, no further food is needed.

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> SPLIT YOUR SPACE

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"If possible, create seating areas that feel completely different from
one another. This will create a journey through your garden, adding a
greater sense of perceived space." — Lauren Hall-Behrens, Lilyvilla
Gardens, Portland, OR

"Less is always more for a small space. Avoid the clutter of lots of
small pots. Get a big bang out of fewer really interesting plants and
special containers." — Chris Meyers, Just Terraces, NYC

"The small terrace or rooftop can feel visually enlarged by remember-

ing that the view from the terrace looking back into your living space is
just as important as the one looking out." — Mark Gomes and John Broere,
Box Design Build, Toronto, Canada

LIFTOFF (TOP LEFT)

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DOUBLE TIME (LEFT CENTER)

Artecnica's Kaktus stool, by Enrico Bressan, takes its name
from the spiny, intricate formations of the staghorn cholla
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this cast-aluminum stool flips over to moonlight as a handy
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE (LEFT)

Ross Lovegrove's Supernatural chair collection unites 21st-
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STORY BY MEGAN PADILLA PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON WHITTLE

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STORY BY LAUREN GRYMES

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Torre & Tagus Designs' smart CIRC five-piece
serving assemblage does up geometry with class.
The white ceramic plates and dark-brown wooden
base are perfect for tapas and small treats. $50.
917-557-7557, katiewongnyc.com

>• SOPHISTICATED HEIGHTS

Elevate outdoor entertaining to the penthouse
level. Not only will you be charmed by the urbane
attitude of GE Monogram's 30-inch Outdoor Cook-
ing Center, but also by its diminutive frame, which
belies its hidden strength: 25,000-BTU stainless-
steel burners and a ceramic-infrared rotisserie
burner. Heavy-duty stainless steel gives the ap-
pliance more than a glint of professionalism, and
integrated red LED lights above the knob controls
and interior halogen lighting only add to its sex
appeal. Powered by natural gas or liquid propane.
$4,899. 800-444-1845 or monogram.com

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 See garden displays by the best designers in
Southern California

Shop at the Marketplace for one-of-a-kind plants

and garden elements

Learn from garden experts and authors in

lectures and demonstrations

Be entertained all weekend long with activities

kids, music and food

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У NICE MACHINE
The Portable Ice Maker allows you to set up the bar outdoors. In other
words, its continuous ice-forming action keeps you from missing any
of the party action. Simply add water and plug in. Stainless steel, with
an ice compartment that stores up to 2 Vi pounds of cubes. $399.
888-263-9850, frontgate.com

A WATTS FOR DINNER

Apartment and condo residents already squeezed for outdoor space are
often also contained by safety rules that don't allow for wood-, charcoal-
or even gas-burning grills. Enter the Electric Condo Grill. With its compact
size, contemporary design and nonstick aluminum cooking surface that
heats up to 425 degrees, even the dweller of the smallest balcony can
be proud to play grill master. $199. 888-263-9850, frontgate.com

V PRESS-ON FUN
The pretty Pressed Vinyl Dot Tablemats by Chilewich will instantly brighten
a surface, from picnic table to buffet. Available in black, citron, grass, hot
pink, smoke and white. $7 for the 14-by-19-inch tablemat; $28 for the
14-by-72-inch runner. 212-679-9204, chilewich.com

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O P E N DAYS —Visit America's Private Gardens
Maybe it's because it is an opportu-
nity for me to indulge my passion for
gardening, to learn and be inspired. Maybe it's be-
cause I'm just old-fashioned and that beautiful gardens
remind me of my duty not to make anything ugly or
shabby. Or maybe, it is just a guilty pleasure, a chance
to peek into a stranger's backyard to see the taste and
connoisseurship of others. Whatever the reason, each
year I eagerly await the selection and visitation sched-
ules for the Garden Conservancy's Open Days, when
hundreds of private gardens across America open their
gates to the public.
Since 1995, the Garden Conservancy's Open Days
program has provided behind-the-scenes access to some
of this country's finest private gardens, offering visitors
the rare opportunity to spend time in beautiful spaces
that are rarely available for public viewing.
This year's program begins this month. Details
"An Architect's Garden" in Pottersville, New Jersey began
in 1992 as a complete renovation and expansion of
an eighteenth-century dairy farm on thirty-five acres. It
iii features French formal boxwood gardens, English borders
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about the gardens are available on the web or in the Open
Days Directory. The Directory is my favorite way to learn
about these gardens. This reference book will lead you to
examples of contemporary ideas, taste and best practices
that can translate to your own garden, and automatically
become a treasured addition to your bookshelf.
Open Days director Laura Palmer attributes the pro-
gram's success over the years to a belief that the best way
to learn about gardens and to appreciate them is to simply
spend more time in them. "The program started when ex-
traordinary gardeners Page Dickey and Penelope Maynard
came to the Garden Conservancy with 110 private gardens
in hand, including theirs, that would open the first year.
Now in 2009, more than 320 private gardens in twenty-
three states, almost half of them new to the program, will
open for a very limited time. Visitors can explore and learn
from some of the best," Palmer says.
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Anticipation Grows
The experts who recruited this year's gardens
have selected some of the most captivating and
creative in America. Here are four that are not
to be missed in 2009.

The Graeme Hardie Garden in Nutley, N e w

Jersey transports the visitor to a world far from
what most might imagine as a typical New Jersey
Garden. His forty-by-sixty-foot walled contem-
porary garden designed by Richard Hartlage is
richly planted in perennials and tropicals. It is a
mix that works to great effect. Visit his garden
on September 19th.

At the Markus Collection and Garden in

Highland Park, Illinois, Brent Markus began
landscaping his family's garden when he was just
a teenager. At first it was dwarf conifers and Japa-
nese maples in the mail, then entire truckloads
of them. There is now a collection of 200 dwarf
conifers and fifty Japanese maple cultivars that Visitors tour Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, home to national present-
ing sponsor, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Fordhook Farm will host five Open Days in
provide an ever-changing collage of sometimes
bucolic Bucks County. These Open Days will feature guest speakers, garden tours,
unpredictable colors. The Markus Collection and and Burpee's popular plant sales featuring the Heronswood collection.
Garden will open to the public on June 28th.

W h e n the property around the Lillie Garden in

Atherton, California was purchased just over twenty years ago, there were
only a few mature oaks and remnants of the original Thomas Church de-
sign. The owner's subtle use of distinctive Japanese rhythms and harmonies
Opening to the public for the first time through Open Days, "The Burke's Jardin del
Sol" in Las Vegas, Nevada is a lush, colorful, yet drought-tolerant, xeriscape garden
designed by family members with recreation and social gatherings in mind. Approxi-
mately fifty percent of the gardens each year are new to the program. Visit this garden
on April 18th. Photo: Andrew Cattoir, courtesy of Southern Nevada Water Authority.
transformed this garden into a series of rich, multi-
layered experiences that include vistas combined
with intimate moments. Judicious and thought-
ful use of stone and sculpture enhance exquisite
plantings composed of a remarkable collection of
Japanese maples, conifers and unusual perennials.
The Lillie Garden will be open to the public on
April 18th.
Twenty years ago Louise and John Wrinkle moved
into the house built by her parents in 1938 and
where she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.
Her horticultural interests began with natives but
realization of Asian counterparts has enriched
the plantings, which include family collections of
hollies, azaleas, and ranunculus. Through the years
the trees have grown to enormous size and new
projects have unfolded, the latest of which are a
pond in the lower corner and a pit greenhouse at
the rear of the cutting garden. The Louise 6k John
Wrinkle Garden will be open on June 13th.

To find a partial list of Open Days gardens near

you and scheduling information, visit the Open
Days web site at www.opendaysprogram.org. For a
complete listing of 2009 Open Days gardens, loca-
tions and dates, as well as listings of public gardens
in every state, order the new Open Days Directory
or join the Garden Conservancy and receive a free
copy of this 300-page reference guide.
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At the "Dan Johnson Garden" in Denver, Colo-

rado, an average city lot supports an eclectic
garden that is anything but average. The result
^ k of a mad collector with an artistic bent, carefully
planted and placed containers, sculptural ele-
ments and found objects enhance the sense of
surprise. Visit this garden on September 12th.
Photo: Dan Johnson.

Get a copy of t h e only

directory t h a t invites
you into America's
finest privat e g a r d e n s
2009 P a r t i c i p a t i n g O p e n D a y s S c h e d u l e
Alabama • Morris County: May 16, August 8
• Birmingham: April 18, June 13 • Somerset County: May 16 & 30,
September 12
California
• Altadena: April 26 New York
• Los Angeles: May 9 • Columbia County: May 31, June 13, July 19
• Marin County: May 17 • Dutchess County: May 16, June 13, July 18,
• San Francisco Peninsula: April 18, May 2 September 13, October 3
• Greene County: July 11
Colorado
• Nassau County: May 16
• Denver: September 12
• Onondaga County: July 12
Connecticut • Orange County: August 15 Yours FREE
• Fairfield County: April 26, May 31, June 7. • Oswego: June 14
July 12 • Putnam County: April 26 w h e n you join th
• Hartford County: May 23; June 6 & 28; July • Suffolk County: May 2, 3 & 16; June 20; Garden Conservancy
11 & 19; September 13 July 11, 12 & 15; September 12
• Litchfield County: May 31; June 14, 27 & • Tompkins County: June 13, July 11
28; July 19 • Ulster County: June 6, July 11, October 17
• New Haven County: May 24, June 6, July 12 • Westchester County: April 26; May 3, 9, The Garden Conservancy's Open
• New London County: June 21, July 18 17, 23 & 31; June 6, 7 & 14; July 19;
September 13; November 1 Days Directory: The 2009 Guide to
District of Columbia: June 13
North Carolina Visiting Americas Gardens—$21.95
Florida
• Vero Beach: April 4 • Raleigh: September 19 & 20 (includes shipping and handling)
Oregon
Illinois
• Chicago's North Shore: June 28, July 26 • Eugene:June 6 Order online at www.
• North Barrington: June 27 • Portland: June 13 gardenconservancy.org/opendays
• West Chicago: August 2 Pennsylvania or call toll-free 1-(888)-842-2442.
Kentucky • Bucks County: April 3 & 4; May 8 & 9; May
• Louisville: May 16 30 & 31; July 10 & 11; August 21 & 22;
September 25 & 26
Maine • North Coast/Erie County: May 24
• Blue Hill/Sedgwick: July 26 • Philadelphia: September 20 Opendaysprogram.org
• York: July 19
Rhode Island The Open Days program web site
Maryland • Newport: June 20 provides instant access to the most up
• Annapolis Area: May 30 to date garden tour information, and last
• Potomac: June 6 Tennessee
• Knoxville: May 16 & 17 minute additions and changes to our
• Bethesda:June 13
schedule.
Massachusetts Texas
• Berkshires: June 28, July 18 • Dallas: October 24
• El Paso: May 16
• Boston Area: September 26
• Nantucket: June 25 • Fort Worth: October 11 Open Days E-mails
• Worcester: June 6 Vermont Sign up for e-mail reminders to receive
• Manchester: June 27 information about upcoming Open
Nevada
• Las Vegas: April 18 Days as well as invitations to Garden
Virginia
• Fairfax County: June 6 Conservancy events in your area. They
New Jersey also serve as a great reminder to put
• Bergen County: May 9, June 6 & 20, July 11 Washington down your pruners and go explore
• Essex County: April 18, September 19 • Bainbridge Island: July 19
outstanding gardens growing right in your
• Hunterdon County: September 12 • Olympia: August 15
• Monmouth County: June 6 • Seattle: June 7 own neighborhood.
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THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY

Jpen Uays is a program of the Oarden Conservancy,
established in 1989 by the distinguished American
gardener, Frank Cabot. In the twenty years since
its founding, the organization has done more than
any other national institution to save and preserve
America's exceptional gardens for the education and
enjoyment of the public.
In partnership with individual garden own-
ers as well as public and private organizations, the
Conservancy provides the horticultural, technical,
management, and financial expertise needed to
sustain these fragile environments and ensure long-
term stewardship of natural assets so essential to the
aesthetic and cultural life of our communities.
"America's exceptional gardens most often
begin as private affairs, the life's work of passionate,
dedicated and remarkably talented gardeners," says
Bill Noble, director of preservation projects for the
Garden Conservancy. "A select number of these
gardens are capable of lasting for generations and
need to become public gardens to facilitate their
preservation and public visitation."
The Garden Conservancy takes a leadership
role in this transition for the American gardens in
its diverse portfolio. It assists in the structuring of le-
gal strategies and conservation easements to protect
these resources from development, develops master
plans for preservation, interpretation, horticultural
management and public access, and helps establish
sound fiscal and organizational foundations for each
property.
Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden in Bishopville, SC is one of sixteen preservation
projects of the Garden Conservancy, www.fryarstopiaries.com

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 .iving green
LONG ISLAND LUSHNESS
A four-season garden showcases the signature style of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates
STORY BY JENNY ANDREWS ■ PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD FELBER

A butterfly's paradise of
Sedum 'Matrons', Agasrache
'Blue Fortune' and Kalimeris
mongolica billows along
the walkway at this home in
Southampton. Designed by
principal Eric Groft, the garden
has a controlled wildness that
suits the luxe location while
recalling the natural look of the
client's former home in Maine.

WHEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS WOLFGANG OEHME
and James van Sweden joined forces in 1977, sustainability was not part
of the vernacular among their colleagues, or even among gardeners. But
for the two men, it was an innate philosophy of eco-conscious principles
that drew them together. Since then their style has even been assigned
its own name, the New American Garden. "They were green before
anyone else," says Eric Groft, a principal with Oehme, van Sweden
& Associates. "You could call them the grandfathers of green."
Though the Washington, D.C., based firm has been at it for more
than 30 years, their work is still cutting edge, from public spaces
to perfect-fit surrounds for architecture ranging from modern to
classical, the translatable quality perhaps due to the blend of order
and wildness, the perennial border meets the American prairie. It
was this combination that drew a Southampton client to the firm in
2001. A friend of van Sweden's, she wanted a wildlife-friendly garden
that recalled the natural landscape she had enjoyed near her previ-
ous home in Maine. This meant bucking the traditional approach
to gardening in the Hamptons, where a drive in any direction pres-
ents block after block of meticulously clipped hedges and manicured
lawns — green only in a color sense. In this affluent part of Long
Island, the sound of hedge trimmers and mowers generates a con-
stant hum during high season.
The designer on the project was Groft, a then 15-year veteran with
the firm and well versed in the mantra of "reduce, reuse, recycle,"
which for OvS comes into play with every design. To start with, the
ubiquitous Hamptons lawn was in this case tailored to allow just
enough play area for grandkids and dogs, covering only about 15
percent of the 2-acre site. As Groft explains, a standard lawn cre-
ates nearly the same runoff surface for rainwater as asphalt or other
hardscaping, and OvS has long been on a mission to minimize turf

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living green
on all its projects, while balancing this with client needs.
The tactic for OvS is to pack as much perennial plant material into
a location as possible, which is water absorbing. Says Groft, "The
entire garden essentially becomes a rain garden," collecting both rain-
water and runoff from hard surfaces, and forestalling erosion and
water wasting. The OvS rule of thumb, according to Groft, is that a
lawn should be limited to "whatever the homeowners have time to
mow with a push mower on a Saturday afternoon." And a modest
lawn becomes simply another design element, a foil for the OvS sig-
nature borders and beds voluminous with perennials like black-eyed
Susan, ornamental grasses, anise hyssop, sedum and fleece flower.
The perennial material for the garden — comprised of water-wise,
low-maintenance, butterfly- and bird-magnet plants, including a high
percentage of natives — was selected not only for toughness but also
for year-round interest (the homeowner even enjoys the "freeze-dried"
look of her winter garden). The less cutting back and seasonal chang-
ing out of plants the better, since such routines require a lot of input
(not only labor, but fertilizer and water) and result in a whole heap
of garden waste, some of it too twiggy to compost easily. Once a year,
in late winter or early spring, the Southampton garden gets a single
serious haircut before new growth on perennials and grasses gets up
and going. But the piles of trimmings don't wind up by the side of the
road. They're shredded and composted for use as mulch later.
Woody plants too were chosen for their easy care, including
'Tardiva' hydrangea, Viburnum x pragense and Nandina, which are not
46 G A R D E N DESIGN APRIL 09
in the heavy-pruning, meatball-shrubbery category, and trees such
as Styphnolobiumjaponicum (formerly Sophora), ginkgo and natives
like flowering dogwood and Magnolia virginiana. A buddleia planted
just outside a kitchen window offers a butterfly- and hummingbird-
viewing portal, with a stained-glass effect when backlit by the
sun. It took some convincing, but the client also agreed to let the
prerequisite privet hedge go undipped. It still forms a privacy screen
from the neighbors, but instead of being tightly sheared, it has a
natural look. And left unpruned, it flowers, attracting the notice of
fellow Hamptonites who have never seen their hedges in bloom.
As a ground-up project, with house and garden designed in tan-
dem, Groft had the opportunity to work closely with architect Robert
Lemmen of Lemmen Paul Associates to site constructed elements.
For hardscaping, Groft kept it local and recycled, choosing New
York bluestone for paving and crushed concrete rather than quar-
ried gravel for pathways. Landscape architect and architect agreed to
locate the garage separate from the house (the homeowner insisted
that she didn't need an attached-garage "bat cave"), and the area
between the two structures forms a cozy microhabitat near the
kitchen — the perfect location for Groft to create an edibles gar-
den of raised beds, which harmonized herbs, Swiss chard, peppers,
and cherry and grape tomatoes with cutting flowers.
To bring the element of water onto the site (the ocean being one of
the obvious reasons people move to the Hamptons, though this prop-
erty isn't ocean adjacent), Groft designed a small pool of aquatic plants

From left to right: Looking toward the car turnaround,
crushed concrete offers a permeable, recycled surface
for paths, here flanked by garlic chives and fountain
grass. When not disturbed by splashing children and
grandchildren, the swimming pool's still surface reflects
exuberant plantings of Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail',
a Styphnolobium japonicum tree, Rudbeckia, Pennise-
tum alopecuroides, Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus' and
Panicum virgatum 'North wind'. A small pool on the terrace
hosts aquatic plants and is oriented so that summer's
setting sun lights up the living room.
just off the terrace outside the living room. Sited
just so, the late-afternoon sun reflects off the water,
casting a warm glow into the house. A swimming
pool beyond, behind the garage (which doubles as a
pool house), has a lap-pool area as well as a shallow
wading pool for little ones. Groft designed the pool
to fit easily into the landscape, surrounding it with
lush plantings that are reflected picture-perfect in
the water, at least when the grandchildren aren't
splashing about. With the ocean only 6 0 0 feet away
beyond the hedge and within easy earshot, sitting
in a deck chair by the pool, the homeowner can
feel like she's at the beach, enjoying the life of a
Hamptonite, but with a natural twist, r
CAREFREE ATTITUDE
LET IT GROW
Some gardeners have an itchy trigger finger on their pruners and hedge trimmers,
fastidiously clipping shrubs and whacking at perennials as soon as anything starts
to look less than perfect. But all this cutting produces waste, and the everything-
must-go approach deprives wildlife of food and cover. Consider keeping your pruners
in the holster and letting nature take its course. With careful plant selection, the
garden can strut its stuff in multiple seasons, and many perennials can be limited to
a once-a-year buzz cut in late winter before new growth begins.
KEEP IT LOW
The less maintenance a garden requires, the less effort and expense, and the lower
the impact on the environment. Choose plants well suited to the location, with mini-
mal water needs, multiseason interest and pest-free durability. Continue to do all
those smart gardener things: Get the soil in good shape at the start, compost or-
ganic waste, and mulch beds to keep moisture in and weeds out. Who doesn't love
the idea of less work?
DON'T MOW
Lawns have their place, but it's no secret that big sweeps of perfect lawn are hogs
about water, fertilizer and pesticides. Calculate how much lawn area you really
need and stick to a minimum. Don't be a maniac about keeping it clipped into a
flawless carpet; you can mow less frequently and the lawn can still look good.
Some gardeners even take a "mow what grows" approach and don't bother with
seeding, sodding, overseeding, etc. There are also lawn alternatives such as sedg-
es and types of grass that require less maintenance than others.
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plants, and here the contrast between gold-
edged 'Futura Simplex' and almost-black
'Nelsoni' makes for good patio companions.
Though the thick rhizomes have been known
to break pots, sturdy examples like the Low
Tahoe Planters from Campania International
should be up to the challenge. Below: An un-
usual species with speckled foliage discovered
in the Congo, Sansevieria masoniana, has
extremely large leaves — 8 to 10 inches wide
and up to 4 feet tall. Right: Silvery 'Moonshine'
reveals the adaptability of sansevierias to
both in-ground and container culture.

lant snobbery has a strong allure, with a certain

smug satisfaction to be gained by inspiring awe and
envy among fellow gardeners with tales of growing
some obscure, persnickety plant. But there is power
in simplicity and undeniable appeal in something being easy. The
poster child for trouble-free gardening would unquestionably be
Sansevieria, but these plants are also a class act, exemplifying
the commonplace gone chic. Their combination of utility and
sleek stylishness makes them the botanical equivalent of the lit-
tle black dress.
The most prevalent are Sansevieria trifasciata, commonly called
snake plant, with horizontal bands of dark and light green, and its
variety 'Laurentii', decked out with yellow edges. But these days
there's no excuse in stopping there, with the assortment of short,
tall, nearly black, thin-leaved, twisted, Luna-moth-green cultivars
out there. When I heard that my friend and fellow writer Felder
Rushing had an actual collection of sansevierias, I was intrigued,
and my own little assemblage is growing. I'm now fighting the
urge to become a fanatical collector. Apparently some of the more
unusual forms are even bringing big bucks on eBay.
The charm of sansevierias isn't lost on designers either. Twenty-
plus years ago, when Fort Lauderdale-based garden designer Luis
Llenza began using them in his landscapes, there were only three
types to work with. Now he has a much wider selection of vari-
eties at his disposal, employing them as edging, groundcovers
and anchors, en masse, in containers, for color, and as texture
companions for agaves and grasses. He calls them "tough and
edgy," favoring those with crisply defined coloring. Though

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 Though hardy outdoors to Zone 9, snake
plants are familiar houseplants in much of
the country, able to take low-light condi-
tions and little water in stride. Below: The
narrow verticality of many sansevierias
makes them good choices for trough-
shaped pots, here 'Futura Simplex' in a Vene-
tian Rectangle from Gainey Ceramics. Right:
One of the hottest sansevierias on the
market these days is S. cylindrica. Container
from Target. Opposite: Recalling a time in
midcentury, when sansevierias were the "it"
plant of modernism, a Spindel planter from
Greenform holds 'Silver Laurentii' encircled
by 'Jade Dwarf Marginated', flanked by
bright-orange chairs from West Elm.

familiar to him since childhood, Llenza's design inspiration

came from iconic Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle
Marx, whose style translated perfectly to Llenza's native Puerto
Rico. As Llenza says: "Marx showed what could be done with
all these tropical plants, like sansevierias emerging from black
Mexican beach pebbles. He really put them on the map."
A group of 6 0 or so described species originating primarily
in Africa, sansevierias hit the European scene in the early 19th
century. As one of the few plants able to survive dim lighting and
laissez-faire maintenance, they were popular houseplants with
the Victorians, becoming ubiquitous living fixtures, from over-
stuffed English parlors to villa patios along the Mediterranean.
In the mid-2oth-century, with the advent of modernism,
they were remade, going from dust collectors to must-haves,
deemed an ideal match for the trim, minimal style of contem-
porary architecture.
But they are so ridiculously effortless to grow (the only thing
easier is a plastic plant), that their popularity midcentury was
not limited to modernism aficionados. Everyone had snake
plants (also cheekily called mother-in-law's tongue), and pieces
of them were routinely cut off and shared with neighbors, mak-
ing them a classic pass-along plant. Today many people still
refer to them as a "grandmother plant," their early memories
of sansevierias connected indelibly with visits to Grandma's
house and seeing snake plants on her front porch or in a win-
dow, parked on a pie tin among those other tough characters
pothos, Swedish ivy and wandering Jew.
For me, Sansevieria was an early initiation into the wonder-
ful world of green leafy things. As one of the plants my mother,
like so many other people, grew well, it was a steady bit of pot-
ted greenery about the house, and I remember the first time it
flowered. I was mesmerized by the line of ants marching up the
flower stalk, each freesia-fragrant little bloom glistening with a
drop of nectar. It was such a remarkable event that my mother
(an artist) immortalized our humble snake plant by painting its
portrait, which she still has hanging on a wall in her house.

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Llenza puts sansevierias through their paces,
using them for a wide range of landscape
needs, from groundcovers to edging to focal
points. Opposite: Low-growing 'Futura Simplex'
around a contemporary fountain, backed by
tall S. thfasciata. Below: Snake plants are
also ideal textural foils for other plants, like
the dramatic swords of laurentii Compacta'
(sometimes called 'Black Gold Extreme1)
woven among feathery muhly grass. Right: A
heavily white-striped cultivar called
'Bantel's Sensation'.

There is even an International Sansevieria Society, with mem-

bers from some 37 countries. Alan Butler, chairman of the society
and a partner at Brookside Nursery, which specializes in san-
sevierias and other succulents, says the surge in sansevieria
popularity is based on converging trends in architectural and suc-
culent plants, and plants with low water needs, "which benefits the
pocket as well as ecology." For Bill Boyd, owner of Boyd Nurseries
in Loxahatchee, Florida, the big draw is their ease of culture, and
he calls them a "guilt-free plant," citing that many gardeners feel
like they've failed when a plant dies. The "sense of satisfaction
and success" with sansevierias is essentially a given.
Though sansevierias are the most undemanding of plants,
surviving isn't the same as thriving, and if you want them to
be in their prime, there are a few factors to keep in mind. Good
drainage is paramount — these are plants that evolved in hot,
dry locations. Butler says to water them very infrequently in win-
ter and regularly in summer, but the drainage needs to be near
perfect; overwatering is one of the only ways to kill a sansevieria
(also, never watering it). And they don't like extended periods
of cold, so in Zone 9 and warmer they can grow outdoors, but
cooler than that and they're houseplants. While they can endure
low-light conditions, they prefer bright, indirect light. Some can
take full sun, with the risk that they can acquire a burned look.
And though seemingly content to be pot-bound, their thick rhi-
zomes can eventually bust through a container; fortunately
dividing them is as easy as growing them.

While their name is distinctly Old World (from Count Pietro

Antonio Sanseverino, an 18th-century patron of horticulture in
Naples), sansevierias are not only thoroughly modern, they're
space age, having been named one of the best plants for cleans-
ing indoor air of toxins in a NASA study — you might even see
them tucked into a corner on a space station some day. After 200
years of cultivation, their persistence has paid off, like the tortoise
in Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare." Emerging from dark
hallways and country porches, they've hit the catwalk, r
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Designer Davis Dalbok strived
for a diverse plant palette
paired with nearly monochro-
matic hardscaping. Opposite:
Dalbok and his client celebrate
the completion of the two-year
ject of building the garden.
nake the lemongrass mar-
Taste caterers
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dreamin
DAVIS DALBOK AND AN EAST COAST TRANSPLANT
RESPECT A CLASSIC EICHLER BUNGALOW AND COMPLETE THE VISION
OF "LIVING IN THE GARDEN." NOW THAT'S WORTH CELEBRATING
STORY BY M E G A N P A D I L L A P H O T O G R A P H Y BY J A M E S CARRIERE

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DAVIS DALBOK is dressed in a pale lime-green
suit, a lemongrass martini in one hand and gesturing with the other
over a corner of this San Rafael, California, garden. "This area is all
about stories in green with riots of color," says Dalbok. He's guiding his
guests for their first look at the garden he recently completed for a dear
friend. Dalbok's description could apply to himself: He's a passionate
plantsman whose worldview embraces the colors of every continent. But
here, the story he's set out to tell is one that is pure California. The set-
ting: a midcentury Joseph Eichler house with the Lucas Valley foothills
of Marin County in the background.
The client is an easterner who moved west to pursue her ideal of
California living. Her vision wasn't about beaches or endless sun-
shine, but rather to own one of the 1,100-plus modernist homes built
by Eichler from 1949 until his death in 1974. "I wanted to live in the
garden at every moment," she says, referring to the architect's signa-
ture seamless indoor-outdoor designs.
Says Dalbok, "My aim was to provide her an infrastructure of hard-
scaping and plants that would sustain that look, but also be exciting."
With a limited budget, it took Dalbok and the client two years to go
from clods of dirt to cocktails and dishing with friends. Tonight they
share the garden with friends for the first time.
As guests begin arriving at the home this August evening, the first
thing they notice is the harmony of the lines between the Eichler roofline
and the fence around the front courtyard — all Dalbok — that retains
the modern vernacular of the architecture. "I'm a firm believer in not
losing the front yard — valuable real estate here in California — to the

Left: The Lucas Valley foothills

rise from behind the client's
Joseph Eichler house; Dalbok's
landscape design highlights its
lines. A feathery Chinese wind-
mill palm behind the courtyard
fence softens linear elements.
Above: Steven Schwager of
Living Green gets acquainted
with Joyce Rietveld. Opposite:
The tabletop is a ceramic mural
by midcentury ceramicist Edith
Heath, whose nearby Sausalito
studio is still in operation. An-
chored in opposite corners are
a bromeliad, Vriesia imperialis,
and a pygmy date palm.
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street." To that end, he planned an enclosed courtyard that extends nearly
to the street to give the client another private living space. "The milky
Plexiglas used for the fence gave us that retro look. But what I really like
about the material is that when the light is changing and the interesting
leaf patterns are cast against it, it acts like a scrim."
Dalbok and his client greet their guests from the front courtyard,
where a ceramic mural-top table by Edith Heath — the midcentury
ceramics maven whose Sausalito studio posthumously produces her
legacy of tableware and tiles — takes center stage. The homeowner
bought this, and one other mural that hangs on a fence in the rear
garden, before she'd even found her Eichler house. "I knew they were
key elements," she says. "Plus, my mother is an avid gardener and a
ceramicist, and she encouraged me to come out here." Dalbok's exqui-
site tabletop decor of Chinese bonsai planters from his San Francisco
showroom Living Green with succulents mixed in with brightly col-
ored minerals and glass are arranged in containers chosen to reflect the
colors in the mural, as are the table bases he selected: Chinese-made
chocolate-gold colored terra-cotta glazed pots.
With drinks in hand, the party moves to the side garden at the rear
of the house — an L-shaped terrace in black-gray slate imported from
Africa that wraps around Eichler's glass walls. "The first thing 1 said to
my client was, 'Let's create a really big terrace that feels like an extended
room off" the house,'" Dalbok explains as the waiter approaches with
the first of three rounds of small plates. "I didn't want the patio to be
too multicolored. This slate comes with some variation, but ultimately
it provides a really nice background to set off the furniture, the plants
and whoever is on the patio."

Opposite: The modular sec-

tional from Henry Hall Designs
matches the lines of the house.
Pictured at far right is Dat
Pham of Living Green, who also
worked on this project. Left:
This grouping of containers an-
chors the L-shaped patio that
wraps around the glass walls of
the living spaces. Above: This
chilled lobster salad was one
of three courses, including a
scallop carpaccio topped with
Osetra caviar, created by Taste
executive chef Chris Borges.
Dalbok's relationship with Taste
goes back 30 years.
 Well said, considering the artfully designed food coming out of the
kitchen on black and orange lacquer trays from the San Francisco cater-
ing company, Taste Catering & Event Planning. The company's credo
is fresh, local and sustainable — and of course, delicious. First out is a
chilled lobster with creamy mozzarella-like burrata cheese (a current dar-
ling of the Bay Area food scene) and tomatoes from Baia Nicchia Farms.
Dalbok explains how his relationship with Taste goes back 30 years,
when he first moved to the Bay Area and worked with Taste founder
Timothy Maxson as an event designer. "I wanted to get creative with the
food display, and 1 knew that Taste would be ready to play."
As the party gets into its groove, guests settle into a low modular
sofa where they rest glasses and plates on the ceramic-top table. Says
Dalbok: "I wanted unique and edgy furniture that would reflect the
look of the property and the garden — and be comfortable. The choices
reinforce the color story in the garden: There's a lot of orange. And
elements like the teak in the arms of the chaise longue carry over to
the teak dining table."
Upstage from the dining table — reserved for the evening's final act,
dessert — is the other major design component. The slope directly off
the back of the terrace combines herbaceous perennials and drought-
tolerant plants like the agaves and aloes. "That curvilicious bed acts as
a counterpoint to the straight-line design of the patio," Dalbok says,
attributing its shape to the ethos of Brazilian landscape-design legend
Roberto Burle Marx.
When reviewing his plant palette, Dalbok explains that he didn't want
to stick to one look from one region. "I wanted it to be diverse and to

Left: The giant mirror hung on

the fence tricks the eye into
thinking there's an entry into
another garden room. Above:
The works of Bay Area artists
Marcia Donahue and Edith
Heath accent the garden's
colors and shapes. The Heath
mural was purchased by the
owner for this garden before
she'd even found the house.
Donahue's Burmese Temple
Offering Bamboo is made of
high-fired ceramic pieces hand-
stacked on rebar. Opposite: Dal-
bok attributes this "curvilicious
border" to his design inspiration,
luminary Roberto Burle Marx.
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use the kinds of plants I felt like using. It could feel Asian in some areas
(pointing to the varieties of Japanese maples) and Southwestern in oth-
ers (as he waves across the many succulents)." He used grasses to unify
the components. "I turned to John Greenlee, the original grass man of
California, as an adviser to the project. I knew he would be able to sug-
gest varieties that would create the effect I was after." For instance, the
No Mow fescue. "I love the way it lies down and is shiny and creates a
lush limey interspace, so you don't see any dirt. It also reminds me of
the seagrass you see between the corals."
As the party progresses, the guests move from the side garden, where
the appetizers were served, to the rear of the L-shaped patio as executive
pastry chef Yigit Рига begins crafting his artisanal spread on the dining
table. He and Dalbok created a tableau of Cafe Brulot dark chocolate
truffles interspersed with lime-green moss and various succulents on
a contemporary mango wood sculpture by Dutch artist Carola Vooges.
Pointing to the round tray, Dalbok comments: "I love concentric design.
That's why I love palms and bromeliads."
To fight the Northern California evening chill, Dalbok asks the
caterers to brew some tea, and he delights in serving it himself in
jewel-toned glasses from a teapot he's just brought home from
Marrakesh. ("It's the teapot I've been looking for all my life.") His
image is reflected in a massive mirror he's hung on the fence to create
the playful illusion of an entry to another part of the garden.
In this moment, his friends seated cozily in the oversize orange chairs
and Dalbok playing host, it's impossible not to think just how good every-
one and everything looks in this garden — just as he intended, r
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Opposite: Individual shot

glasses of strawberry-scented
panna cotta with cantaloupe
caviar line the dessert table,
the final act of this garden's
opening night. Left: The area
of the garden that Dalbok
refers to as "stories in green."
Gravel and grasses are used
to fill all of the interspace and
unify the elements. Above:
Elements from the garden are
incorporated into every detail
of this party, including the
arrangement of the chocolate
truffles created by executive
pastry chef Yigit Рига.

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 The jungle of Rio de Janeiro's hills
practically cascades down into the
magnificent pool and its pavilion. All
of the fabrics in the open pavilions
are blue and white. "It brings the
ocean in," says designer Paulo Pratti.

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hen Sao Paulo-based architect and landscape designer
Paulo Pratti was hired to design the garden of this
condo in Laranjeiras, some two hours south of Rio
de Janeiro, he was inspired by the gardens of Burle Marx, a great
influence on his work, yet he also visualized the cascading jungle
of Rio's hills as a dramatic backdrop straight out of a Margaret Mee
painting. In the world of the great English botanical artist who
explored the Amazon region in the late-ig5os and i g 6 o s , giant
fuchsia blossoms erupt from tree branches in inky forests grow-
ing on river hollows. Mee, a great influence on Pratti, captures
the elusive spirit of the forest and makes us want to get lost in it,
even without mosquito repellent. The design fuses Marx's gardens
with Mee's essence of the Amazon and hybridizes it with a pinch
of Indonesian simplicity.
After Pratti was hired to design the house and garden in 2 0 0 6 ,
his client asked him to look at the Four Seasons resorts in Bali for
inspiration. The rooms in the home are built as open bungalows
around an enormous g5,ioo-gallon swimming pool, which in turn
cools the house in summer. This is not just a pool to be seen loung-
ing beside wearing a tiny piece of stretchy material, without ever
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getting wet. It isn't only a pool where one glides like a swan and
quickly comes out the other end. This is the kind of pool where Burt
Lancaster would have thrived — think of Ned from The Swimmer
— accompanied by many nymphets. Wooden bridges over the pool
connect sleeping quarters with partying and lounging pavilions,
making the estate "feel like a hotel or a club," as Pratti explains,
"constantly filled with visitors." The latter part of this concept is
most decidedly Brazilian.
The sparing use of walls creates an almost osmotic exchange
between the outdoors and indoors. Even the few surrounding stone
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walls of the main lodge are planted with micro-orchids in between
the stones, as if the entire structure were overrun by nature. Beyond
the pavilions, the more than 32,000-square-foot garden is predom-
inantly green year-round, with touches of yellows and reds from
bromeliads, and pinks and purples from Laelia and Cattleya orchids
growing on trees and over stone walls. Many of these plants, includ-
ing some of the tall queen palms, arrived by boat or helicopter, since
the condominium "doesn't really have good road access," Pratti
explains. To achieve true genius-of-place status, he partnered with
Jose Vila, an area nurseryman with more than 30 years of experience
An Indonesian daybed in the owner's
private courtyard, also made of
cumaru, with carvings in the legs.
The openings are shaded with rolling
bamboo screens. Opposite: A view
of the lawn where guests gather
around the open bonfire after sunset.
 "was a design challenge,"
says Pratti; its 95,100 gallons of
water are filtered with a copper
system, and no chemicals. Opposite:
A predominantly blue palette in a
sala for meditation or for listening to
Bossa Nova music.

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growing regional plants, to plan the garden. Vila's passion for local
flora is obvious, since 2,000 square feet of the garden is planted with
species of Heliconia. Their hanging fire-red flowers also feed hun-
dreds of hummingbirds and southern lapwings, which thrive in the
pesticide-free garden. From the start of the project, Vila a n d
Pratti's emphasis was on caring for the environment. The pool is free
of chemicals, relying on a copper filter instead, and all lumber used
in the house is repurposed cumaru, an alternative to mahogany.
The centerpiece of the garden is an old Dracaena arborea from the
house where the original owner's mother lived. When his mother
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passed away, he brought it to his new home and placed it in a spot eas-
ily visible from the bungalows. But the most unexpected part of Vila
and Pratti's design is a private garden with a daybed and magnificent
pink bromeliads, set between the master bedroom and bathroom,
which the owner alone can access.
Some 9 0 0 feet from the edge of the property sits a white sandy
beach and the Atlantic Ocean, in case the pool is not enough. And if
walking seems too stressful, the house comes with a golf cart to move
around the property — powered by solar energy, because Rio is all
about the sun. it SEE SOURCEBOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION, PAGE 88
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signer маае Wijaya creates a romantic mini .
pavilions around a dramatic water garden in Bali

ORY BY JOANNA FORTNAM PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACQUELINE KOCH

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t ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ he worldwide fantasy of a tropical garden comes to Earth
in Bali, a land of emerald-green rice terraces studded with water temples
and ribboned with flowers. In fact, the country's reputation as "Island
of the Gods" has made Bali a destination for dreamers from all over the
world. Made Wijaya, an Australian landscape designer formerly known
as Michael White, is one who stayed.
Wijaya describes himself as a "convert, a true believer," who has
immersed himself in the culture of Bali and has traveled extensively
throughout Indonesia for more than 30 years. Renowned for his richly
decorated, lush gardens for many boutique hotels of Bali (The Oberoi,
the Amandari), it was a natural next step for Wijaya to turn to the design
of homes and gardens around the tropical world and for the interna-
tional community in Bali. Villa Kirana brings together his strengths as
a modern Western romantic and a local who understands the culture. Opposite: Looking from the warm-toned Java-stone and timber inte-
The story of his involvement with Villa Kirana began in 2 0 0 0 , rior of the house, the central walkway frames a single Javanese jar,
which forms the focus of an outdoor reception room with views south
when an Australian couple who had lived in Asia for 25 years com-
to the adjacent parkland. Above, clockwise from top left: Glistening
missioned Wijaya to design a second residence on a ridge overlooking water droplets on lotus leaves; a corner of the Japanese-inspired liv-
the Ayung river valley and rice fields. The couple, Patrick and Clare ing room; a stone art piece from Sumba Island, East Indonesia, part
Alexander, who are also parents of two boys, teenagers at the time, of a children's board game similar to checkers.
were already fans of Wijaya's work. Their wish list — including a
lush water garden, a dramatic classical Balinese garden and lots of 77

Above, clockwise from top left: Stones such as tuft tufa, limestone
and slate were used in the garden. The steep slope was extensively
terraced, so pebbles were used on many smaller garden landings to
present a cleaner, drier surface in this muggy mountain clime; spidery
green dwarf papyrus mingles with purple-leaved Hemigraphis alternate;
poolside is a row of Balinese foo dogs by renowned sculptor I Wayan
Cemul. Opposite: The patio lounge chairs are by architect Ed Tuttle for
the Sukhothai Hotel in Bangkok. The colored poolside building is built in
the style of stilt houses from Terengganu, Malaysia.
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interesting garden elements — drew on his strengths.
Wijaya had a starting point in mind: a project where he had cre-
ated a garden for a striking h o m e . "I always liked architect Arne
Hasselquist's work in the Caribbean, particularly the David Bowie house on
Mustique, which I thought was one of the loveliest tropical houses I had
ever worked on. So I was at last presented with an opportunity to do a
version of Hasselquist's Bowie house with its dramatic central water
garden, cascading down to a fabulous view."
An obvious template was the traditional Balinese mountain house with
its ornately carved and decorated interiors and steep thatched roof. Says
Wijaya, "Everyone loves the dryness of an elevated timber building and
the privacy, as well as the coziness, of all the wood." But village homes
not being suited to the needs of a contemporary Western family, he con-
ceived the house as a mountain-style hybrid along lines recognizable from
Balinese temples and palaces. Villa Kirana would feature many living-area
pavilions around a central water garden with a wing for dining, a formal
living and master suite, and a wing for the children and guests. The ulti-
mate plan would flesh into a Pan-Asian-Indonesian-style mini-palace.
The biggest challenge was the lack of space for such a grand scheme.
Wijaya worked hard at selling the clients his strongest design move. "I
had to convince them that when space is an issue, the answer is to have
one big idea. My solution was the super-size water garden around which
the house revolves. Clare thought it reduced rather than enhanced the
'lush garden' part of the project wish list."
For months the clients remained unsure about the size of the water
feature, which cascades to meet a swimming-pool terrace. They feared it
would dominate the design to the detriment of both house and garden.
But the elements slowly came together. And in answer to the space prob-
lem, halfway through the job they bought a neighboring plot. This was
seamlessly incorporated into the garden and also allowed Wijaya to create
a small rustic pavilion to function as a focal point in the landscape.
Keeping the central water garden Chinese-style, focusing around
water and stone, Wijaya gave the rest of the grounds a rainforest-jungle
look. "1 didn't use only native plants, but restricted myself to mountain-
tropical palms and ferns and bamboos for the most part ... with
plumerias and heliconias thrown in as accents," he says. This made the
best backdrop for a collection of primitive art. Wijaya explains that it is
the "placement of the artworks amidst a planting scheme that is roman-
tic and poetic" that makes a garden Balinese.
In this respect, the Alexanders benefited from Wijaya's travels through-
out Indonesia. He led them to a collection of mountain Balinese (Stone
Age) statues and objects, and a collection of primitive stone statuary and
windows and doors from Eastern Indonesia, Sulawesi and Kalimantan.
Besides being a beautiful setting for art and architecture, the house and
garden are both used in an entirely contemporary manner. The garden
has many breakout zones for al fresco entertaining; the cobbled arrival car
court becomes a reception area for larger functions; the dining terrace off
the main living room that overlooks the swimming pool is both cozy and
generous, as it allows an almost grandstand view of the valley while still
being a part of the close-compound nature of the Balinese-style garden.
After so long in his adopted country, adapting East for West comes
naturally to Wijaya, who is a full-blooded romantic, in love with "the
world's most-gorgeous cultures," and he would never sidestep the Opposite: View across the river valley from the entry porte cochere to a
challenge they represent. So, if you hadn't thought of modern gar- local Hindu temple set in rice fields and jungle with Villa Kirana's central
water garden in the foreground. Above, clockwise from top left: A color-
dens as romantic places, come to Bali. As Wijaya himself puts it: "Get
ful lobster claw heliconia; poolside offers a grandstand view of the valley
your ya-yas out for God, who loves color and movement, and all things while still being a part of the tightly knit compound of the garden; bird
bright and beautiful in the garden. Amen." #■ sculptures from Sumba (pairs of birds are often found on important vil-
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 groundbreaker
JAMES CORNER
A closer look at the avant-garde urbanist's forthcoming High Line
STORY BY DONNA DORIAN
IN THE FOREWORD TO JAMES CORNER AND ALEX MCLEAN'S
1997 award-winning book. Taking Measures Across the American
Landscape, landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh found
their ideas tantalizingly comparable in scope to Le Corbusier's call to
design buildings as reflections of the machine age. Like Le Corbusier,
Corner is a philosopher of change, who urges us "to take the mea-
sure" of "our collective inheritance" as we begin to design the
post-industrial city, to take the past with us as we move into the
future. Pushing aside landscape architecture's back-seat, anti-urban
tendencies, Corner makes a firm case for a much more ambitious
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way in designing the city of the future.
It's a fascinating concept that the 47-year-old Corner — as the
Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Design and at the helm of his New York-based practice,
Field Operations — is making real in a number of high-profile proj-
ects. This spring, the first major built example of his new agenda will
debut: the High Line, an abandoned New York City railroad viaduct
remade into a grand, public promenade. As a cross between New
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York's industrial past and a revolution- views of the Hudson River provide a place
ary synthesis of landscape architecture, to stop and rest. A tunnellike passage will
ecology, art and urbanism, the High Line double as an exhibition gallery. There's even
will amount to nothing less than a gar- room at the park for small performances to
den in the sky. take place. The combination creates a feel-
While Le Corbusier found inspiration ing that one is enmeshed in a landscape
in the American grain elevator, Corner while simultaneously being part of the city
finds his in the vast inventory of large surrounding it.
abandoned sites, including old facto- If the High Line is New York's most-
ries, closed landfills, deserted ports and innovative park since Central Park, Corner's
waterfronts, former airfields, and for- program for transforming the Fresh Kills
gotten n e i g h b o r h o o d s . Although the landfill on Staten Island into a huge rec-
challenges of transforming these places reational park is widely considered one
are enormous — so far about 1 mile of of the most-forward-looking public-works
the High Line's concrete bed has had to projects in the global arena. When com-
be removed so repairs and waterproofing pleted in 2031, it will also stand as the
could be done to the structure — Corner's incarnation of what Corner calls "landscape
post-industrial aesthetic is based on the urbanism" — a term that has become the
reality that big urban projects require battle cry for avant-garde landscape archi-
infusions of billions of dollars over ю tects everywhere. Corner explains it "as a
or 15 years. In his eyes, this leads to the way of viewing the urban fabric as if it is
necessity of a flexible methodology able a landscape. It's not just the green stuff in
to go with the punches as things change between — it's what happen s when you
and projects evolve over time. Unlike think of it as everything."
architects, who tend to think in terms of
designed objects, landscape architects, And there is a lot of everything at Fresh
like gardeners, capitalize on change to Kills. At 2,200 acres and 3.4 square miles
successfully grow and can therefore take — almost three times the size of Central
on a complex range of issues and bring Park — it was formerly one of the largest
a lot to projects. He isn't interested in landfills in the world. Then as now, Fresh
imposing a static image on a garden, Kills, which derived its n a m e from the
park or cityscape. Instead he wants to Middle Dutch word kille, or riverbed, is part
grow them "to engineer a site as a self- of one of the largest tidal wetland ecosystems
sustaining ecosystem." in the region. Even after it was transformed
into a landfill in 1948,55 percent of its area
remained populated with creeks, wetlands
Corner's approach will become clear
and dry lowlands.
enough to the millions who will soon start
walking the High Line on Manhattan's The problems associated with the bereft
West Side. A tight, linear, on-the-average site are common to landfills in general: low-
30-foot-wide, 1.5-mile-long promenade, fertility soil; lack of ecological diversity;
it features a primary walking path only leachate (a kind of "garbage juice," which
8 feet in width. Unlike the Promenade must be extracted from the trash mound s
Plantee in Paris — a much-heralded, ear- and sent through a system of pipes and
lier example of a viaduct translated into p u m p s to a cleansing plant); the complex
an urban park — the High Line makes infrastructure of the mound s that can't be
n o effort to repeat a traditional conver- altered; and the release and management
sation between planting beds, pergolas of methane gases. It takes some 30 years to
and such. Instead, choreographed by ensure a safe and clean environment. While
Field Operations in collaboration with some firms that entered the City of New
the Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf, the York's International Design Competition
High Line will become home to a grass- in 2001 were stumped by the challenges,
land matrix inspired by what had grown Corner fingered them as a means of releas-
up through the cracks after the High Line ing the site's extraordinary potential.
closed to traffic in 1980. And while the
Promenade Plantee masks Paris behind In his "Lifescape" p r o p o s a l . C o r n e r
thickets of foliage, the skinny footprint made no apologies for the trash mounds.
of the High Line flaunts an ever-chang- In fact, he looked at them as all-important
ing view of the back side of the city. In a dramatic features in the landscape and an
sundeck area of the park, chaises open essential aspect of the history of the site.
To date, three of the six mounds have been

capped and their methane gas harvested to
fuel 25,000 homes. Also integral to the new
park is the natural water system, includ-
ing the salt marsh once polluted with 150
million tons of waste. Now cleaned and
readied for kayaking and canoeing, the salt
marsh and the winding network of creeks
stand out against the wide horizon views of
the huge, hill-like capped mounds of trash,
taking on a stark, captivating beauty of what
seems like an otherworldly moonscape.
Today, the site is d o m i n a t e d primar-
ily by two plant species — Iva frutescens, a
multi-stemmed shrub found in marshes,
and Phragmites australis, common reed, a
6- to 12-foot-tall grass that has taken over
wetlands. To address the problem, small
communities of native flora will be planted
that will steal enough sunlight to naturally
eradicate the invasive species, becoming
one of the many ways Field Operations
will engage and direct natural processes.
Plugs, whips and trees also will be planted
to enrich the seed bank.
With no perfect m o m e n t p l a n n e d in
its evolution, the park will become ever-
changing as meadows, grasslands, wood-
lands, designed landscapes and creeks
become interspersed with event spaces
— docks, ball parks, bike paths, bird tow-
ers and horse trails. Sanitation buildings
Above: A modular pathway system of tapered
concrete planks allows plants to push up at the
edges, blurring the boundaries between hard,
paved and soft, planted surfaces.
will be rejigged into performance theaters.
Barges that once brought in garbage will be
transformed into floating gardens. And an
earthwork, built from World Trade Center
towers debris, will be formed into the shape
of the towers resting on their sides in a wild-
flower field. The whole will offer a huge
open space found nowhere else in New York
City. Look for it soon: North Park, the first
of five phases, is projected to open in just
a year and half. Who knows, though, what
will follow on the heels of the current fiscal
crisis? Already some parts of the original
plans have been scrapped due to complex-
ity and cost.
For all t h e u n a v o i d a b l e d i s c o u r s e
and wow power that promises to ema-
nate from the High Line and Fresh Kills,
Corner is not particularly interested in putting
forth yet another design aesthetic for the ages.
Rather, his eagle eye stays focused on devel-
oping new methods and strategies to enhance
dynamic relationships between the historical
past, the ecological future and us — out of
which will grow the green and smart land-
scapes of the post-industrial age. r
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PRESENT
Open Days
Awakening of the Garden Celebration
Friday & Saturday, April 3 & 4
A tour of Fordhook Farm's exquisite
gardens in early spring. Participate in
a seed sowing workshop, plant sale,
guided tours, and talks by
Simon Crawford and George Ball.
Root Camp
Friday & Saturday, May 8 & 9
Workshops, lectures, and seed sales
during the event will assist gardeners in
constructing their own ornamental and
edible gardens at home. Graham Rice
and Rosalind Creasy featured.
Midsummer Garden Party
Friday & Saturday, July 10 & 11
Hydrangeas will be the focus of the
event during guided garden tours and
a lecture by internationally acclaimed
plant researcher Dr. Mike Dirr.
Burpee's Harvest Festival
Friday & Saturday, August 2 1 & 22
A tomato tasting, lecture, guided
tours, and a sneak peek at 2010 Burpee
varieties. Gardener and cookbook
author Laura Schcnone is featured.
Autumn Garden Tour
Friday & Saturday, Sept. 25 & 26
Enjoy "summer's second number" with
guided tours, a fall bulb/plant sale, a
garden workshop, and lectures. T h e
featured speakers for this event are
Rill Miller and Jerry Fritz.
All events are 1 0 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Fordhook Farm
105 New Britain Road
Doylestown, PA
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NOW AND ZEN
The Portland Japanese Garden continues its visionary path
STORY BY TOVAH MARTIN ■ PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHELSEA STICKEL
SOME SEEK OUT THE PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN AS
an oasis, it's true. For sure, Portland residents slip into the garden's
deep-green embrace to escape earthly cares. And absolutely, the layer-
ing of deftly sculpted form and texture — of noble stone juxtaposed
against curvaceously sculpted branches — is meant to draw you away
from the mundane and material onto a higher plane. But retreat isn't
all this place is about.
The Portland Japanese Garden doesn't take the passive approach.
Instead, active and present is how the garden hopes to interact with
its public. Most notably, its newly appointed garden curator, Sadafumi
Uchiyama, adopts an invigoratingly engaged stance. The creation of the
garden curator position and Uchiyama's appointment in October 2008
was part ofthe process by the Portland Japanese Garden to fulfill a cohe-
sive vision for the garden. "Another name for my position," Uchiyama
likes to say, "is 'the vision keeper.'"
Part of what Uchiyama does is to define the garden and make certain
that its integrity remains intact. But it goes deeper than that. Uchiyama,
who has interacted with the garden since he moved to Portland in 1995,
strives to hone how the garden speaks to its public. And he's hoping that
the garden can communicate on a very down-to-earth level.
So, rather than the typical intangibles connected with a Zen sort of
space, Uchiyama talks in truisms. Though spirituality drips from every
86 G A R D E N DESIGN APRIL 09
The Portland Japanese Garden offers visitors a range of venues to delve into
its meticulous craftsmanship, from the Strolling Pond Garden with its Moon
Bridge (above left), to the Flat Garden and its raked-sand "seascape" sur-
rounded by plantings that highlight the four seasons (above right).
bough in this 5.5-acre venue, discovering it is best done without too
much prompting. Thus Uchiyama doesn't dive deeply into the garden's
spiritual message when he speaks to visitors, and he skips suggestions
of how you should react to the five meticulously manicured spaces that
compose this landscape not far from Portland's more-concrete persona.
Instead, he shares informed and insightful observations of how nature
and plants interplay, and chronicles the duties of those who maintain
the garden, challenging visitors to be attentive to the surroundings.
Then he weaves that into the greater confluence of Japanese tradi-
tion before letting you loose to explore the landscape personally. And
before you know it, you've found your own way to seeing the waves of
the ocean carved in a black pine and the promise of eternal life in the
trip of water over stone.
When he discusses the garden, Sada Uchiyama often begins with
the bears that were once a part of the zoo originally housed there,
and explains how their former den is now a part of the waterfall in
the Strolling Pond Garden. Which seems like a valid starting point to
chronicle the land's transformation through
stewardship and craftsmanship to its current
plateau of perfection. Originally, the gar-
den was inspired by the Sister City program
(Portland became the sister city of Sapporo,
Japan, in 1959) and was the vision of the
Japanese Garden Society of Oregon and pro-
fessor Takuma Tono, who graduated from
Cornell and then taught in Tokyo before
returning to the United States, and was com-
missioned in 1963 to design and landscape
the garden. The plan for the garden started
taking shape in the early 1960s before con-
struction began in 1965 and continued without
pause until its full completion in 1990. What
set the Portland Japanese Garden apart was
its methodical installation. Other gardens
were built fast and furious in a year, maybe
two. But it took nearly 30 years to construct
Portland's garden. During that time, a series of
craftsmen journeyed from Japan and accom-
plished the gradual, systematic design. "The
garden was so well integrated with a sense
of the place and its natural environment,"
Uchiyama points out, "that no major grading
was necessary."
Continuity was critical, which is why the
gardener craftsmen came for spans of two to
four years and labored with head gardeners
who remained for 30 years to oversee the over-
all vision. Throughout its lifespan, the garden
has gradually knit together, always changing,
but always answering to its founding prin-
ciples. As Uchiyama likes to say, "a garden
evolves, but its concept and design stay."
As for the design, the Pordand garden is
composed of the traditional elements typical of
Japanese style and features five areas: a stroll-
ing garden with its characteristic zigzag bridge
to deflect evil, a humility-reinforcing tea gar-
den with a tea house in which the ritual tea
ceremony is performed, a flat garden of med-
itative raked sand, as well as a sand and stone
garden mirroring those found in Zen monas-
teries, and a natural garden which — unlike
the other compositions — is meant to be expe-
rienced and perceived physically rather than
beheld from a distance. Each transports you,
but the broader lesson throughout is the inter-
relatedness of all forms in life. "It's a feeling of
connection that we're trying to convey, and the
garden is the means," Uchiyama explains.
If the Pordand Japanese Garden's newest
curator seems so comfortable with his craft that
he expounds truths about existence, gardening
and where those two concepts intercept while
nonchalandy cradling pruners, that's because
he was raised among gardeners. In Japan,
Uchiyama's family has served the land as pro-
fessional gardeners since 1909, and his own
intensive field training began at age 10. As
a result, he doesn't know the meaning of a
summer break. But he also has an inherent
knowledge of the meaning and associations
behind the rhythms and customs of Eastern
gardening. For a time, he rebelled, joining the
Peace Corps just to get away. "I escaped the fam-
ily tradition," he admits, but eventually returned
to the fold, with a redefined approach. He likes
to say that he's redrawn his understanding. In
1988, after studying Eastern landscape archi-
tecture in Japan, he attended school in this
country — earning a bachelor's and master's
in landscape architecture from the University
of Illinois — to learn the tenets of Western
landscape architecture. From there, he was
instrumental in the restoration of the 3-acre Jap-
anese garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens in
2002. As a result of a lifelong closeness with
landscapes, Uchiyama is infinitely copasetic
with the Portland garden and its maintenance,
but never casual.
Horticultural skill is paramount in this can-
vas of intricately juxtaposed lines and curves, the
ambiance the result of rhododendrons pruned
into sleek mounds that seem to be one contin-
uous surface and pines painstakingly plucked
of excess needles one by one at precisely a cer-
tain time. In Japanese gardens, the goal is "to
distill the essence of each element into its natu-
ral form," and even stones and bamboo edging
are treated as individuals. "Instead of standing
like soldiers, wood pegs used to retain the edge
of the pond are uneven, of different sizes and
given different orientations." Uchiyama insists
that a Japanese garden isn't only about tech-
niques: "It's the unified vision."
By h e i g h t e n i n g a w a r e n e s s of all the
Portland Japanese Gardens' inner workings
and by explaining its processes and roots,
Uchiyama hopes to reach out to all who
maneuver the steppingstones in its pathways
and brush against the venerable sheared
conifers. And time is a critical element here,
as "the garden is enriched by the passage of
time," according to Uchiyama. Although the
Portland garden is m a t u r e by Japanese-
American s t a n d a r d s , it's merely in its
adolescence in the greater s c h e m e of
Japanese gardens. "One hundred years is the
Japanese standard for maturity," Uchiyama
explains. "We're still giving the garden its
flavor." As for Sada Uchiyama, he's in it for
the long haul. "I know that things would
and should change," says Uchiyama. "We're
just beginning a long journey." /r
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 Vixen Hill Cedar Pergolas
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Schreiner's Iris Gardens

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Witherspoon Rose Culture

Witherspoon Rose Culture offers a care-
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 "Everything But The Water"
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Walpole Woodworkers®
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Oakes Daylilies
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Maine Millstones
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 Archie's Island Furniture
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We've been making beautiful Redwood
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 on desi
JULIE MOIR MESSERVY
Form follows feeling in gardens designed to feed the soul

A PROLIFIC DESIGNER OF BOTH PRIVATE

and public landscapes (including the Toronto Music
Garden), Julie Moir Messervy also loves to write
and lecture about design. It's one way she wresties
with concepts and coaxes them into shape. Her new
book, Home Outside (The Taunton Press, 2009),
presents design theory as well as practical advice.
— VIRGINIA SMALL

Q; How did you come to take an unabashedly emotional

approach to designing landscapes?
A: As a child, I spent a lot of time playing outside,
building forts and making special places in mossy
beds or under trees. I'd bury my nose in peonies and
I studied trilliums in the forest. Being outdoors was all
about feeling good. As a designer, I want each of my
landscapes to feel just as special for my clients. For me,
form doesn't follow function; form follows feeling.
Qj Whafs your concept of "home outside"?
A: Home is not just the house where you live,
but also the entire landscape around the house.
Basically, all the same things can happen outside a
home as happen inside — you can play, eat, frolic —
you can even tryst there!
Qj So where do you start?

A: I begin by analyzing the actual site and learning as

much as I can about what the client's "ideal site" would
be. Then I figure out one or more big moves that give
me an organizing strategy for the design. Then I look
for the desired level of comfort in specific outdoor
spaces. For example, the front yard should ideally be a
welcoming zone. If it does not feel welcoming, I look
for ways to create a sense of comfort there.
Qj What other types of spaces promote a sense of comfort?
A: People like places to gather with family and
friends, and these are often best close to the house.
We also like getaway spaces, such as for a hammock,
Julie Moir Messervy (right)
which can be farther from the house.
designed the Toronto Qj HOW does your training in architecture influence your
Music Garden (top) as sense of design?
an interpretation of a
seven-part musical suite by A: The same design principles apply to both buildings
Johann Sebastian Bach. She and landscapes. I take cues from the architecture and
collaborated with cellist connect the lines or materials of a house with those
Yo-Yo Ma on the project. around it. I create open-air rooms with some type of
Above: She traces her love
frame, but they don't always need to be symmetrical.
of landscapes to childhood
explorations, discovering Then I think about wayfinding and how to make it all
trilliums in the forest. feel part of a continuous, flowing whole.

96 GARDEN DESIGN APRIL 09

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