This week’s Boston Flower Garden Show drew many who are itching to dig in the dirt after being snowed under for most of the past month.

Amid the calla lilies and roses, Donna Fernandes of Middleboro took a deep breath, smiled and said, “It’s just great after the winter we had.”

Others, like Fernandes’ daughter, Denise Petronelli, made the trek to the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston to see what East Freetown landscaper Peter Sadeck was up to this year. Sadeck, whose business address is in Lakeville, came through with another lush design, complete with his signature birds and an antique stone fountain imported from England.

Petronelli, daughter-in-law of the late Goody Petronelli, towed her mother and sister, Dawn McSherry, of Plymouth to the show for some “hardscape” ideas for the pool area in her antique Cape in Middleboro.

“I had to come to Boston to find him,” said Petronelli as she made a beeline for Sadeck’s exhibit. “It’s a good way to start spring.”

Sadeck and his wife, Maria, showcased neighboring exhibits. Maria Sadeck applied her interior design talents to create an outside room that mimics an oasis, surrounding a pergola topped with antique stained glass windows in front of a gazing pool.

The Sadecks prepared their exhibits all winter, forcing flowering shrubs, trees and potted plants at Roseland Nursery in Acushnet.

Peter Sadeck framed his garden with twin 20-foot Bradford pear trees in full bloom and  splashed color from a variety of ornamental shrubs and flowers. Birdsong from parrots and cranes filled the air as the fountain tinkled with sparkling water.

The Sadecks joked about the number of birds, and ultimately agreed he keeps about 100 birds in his East Freetown aviary.

Petronelli was enchanted with the Sadecks’ exhibits, and while she thought Peter Sadeck’s birds were beautiful, she’s not ready to add an exotic flock to her backyard. Instead, Petronelli said she’s hoping to incorporate her backyard hens into a landscape design. “I have 10 chickens. Maybe there’s a better way to show them off,” she said, adding that she plans to ask the Sadecks to design a patio area around her pool this spring.

The Sadecks admitted they don’t have many customers from their immediate region, saying they travel everywhere between Boston and Martha’s Vineyard to design and maintain gardens. They said most of their neighbors in Lakeville and Freetown prefer to do their own gardening.

Peter Sadeck, who was raised in New Bedford, developed a green thumb at an early age and cultivated it a Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton. He said he’s entered the show for nearly 20 years and has lost count of the awards he’s won.

Kenneth Jardin, co-owner of Crystal Brinson Horticulturist, of Fairhaven, collaborated with Westport’s Quintessential Gardens to design an exhibit that featured grottos, a goddess and bluestone planters surrounded by plantings that were entirely organically grown.

“There was no chemicals at all,” Jardin said. Pests were eradicated with ladybugs, and the fertilizer was natural, he said.

The garden embraced the stone goddess, “From maiden to mother,” a fecund woman’s form that served as a reminder of nature’s bounty. She was flanked by a riot of color from a camellia in full flower that was forced into bloom at Kenny’s Greenhouse in Fairhaven.

Jardin pointed to the flaming red sprays from a crabapple tree that were set off by deep lush greenery, and said “Crystal has a background in painting that she takes to the garden.”

The Boston Flower Garden Show runs through 6 p.m. on Sunday.

To get a glimpse of what the Buffalo Erie County Botanical Gardens may look like in the future, head over and take a look at a new exhibit of designs that explores the possibilities.

LifeCycles, an Orangery and Demonstration Garden Exhibit, opened Friday and will run through April 7.

Six architecture students from the University at Buffalo created the exhibit, and each of their designs focuses on strategies for the potential of the horticulture attraction.

“We can present to the public, members and donors these concepts that could be at the Botanical Gardens,” David J. Swarts, Botanical Gardens president, said during Friday’s opening.

Fashionable in Europe in the 17th to 19th centuries, an orangery was a building, greenhouse or conservatory where citrus trees were wintered and moved outside in warmer months to provide event space.

All six plans were designed with the possible addition of an Orangery at the Botanical Gardens.

Timothy Boll’s design – Convective Gardens – reproduces the Gulf Stream effect in which a cold source on top and hot on the bottom creates different climates. Boll’s design re-creates the effect in a single room that has suspended platforms with a variety of plants, explained Nerea Feliz, a visiting architecture professor at UB. It minimizes the need to subdivide collections in different houses of the Botanical Gardens.

“You can have cacti and [cold weather] plants in one room,” Feliz said.

Lauren Colley’s Botanical Immersion uses 10 different pavilions to create a new garden experience. It weaves the interior and exterior of the Botanical Gardens with South Park so that park visitors can view the gardens from outside.

“We merge the [two] to make it a one-user experience,” Colley said.

The idea behind Orbits, a proposal by Nathaniel Heckman, is to remove various plants from the current building and put them into different buildings to open up the Palm Dome for weddings, parties and receptions.

Vincent Ribeiro’s Selective Branching and Marc Velocci’s Adaptation both focus on buildings that can extend/expand and contract according to the needs of the gardens. The architectural flexibility allows the buildings to adapt to seasonal change and temperatures.

Ribeiro’s design is like a “telescopic structure” that allows building sections to expand and contract as plants grow, Feliz said.

In the Adaptation model, structures would be affixed to tracks that would move the buildings to be bigger or smaller. This allows for flexibility of buildings to host different collections and exhibits, Felix said.

Christa Trautman’s Carving Coherence aims to unite the old and the new by inverting some of the domed structures to create excavated gardens that mimic the forms of the exiting domes.

The exhibit is included with admission to the Botanical Gardens: $9 for adults, $8 for seniors at least age 55 and students at least age 13 with identification; and $5 for children 3 to 12. Garden members and kids under three are free.

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PHILADELPHIA — “Brilliant!”, the 2013 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, lived up to its name last week, inspiring a passion for the best in British garden and landscape design.

More than 225,000 visitors experienced the multi-sensory presentation at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 2 to 10. The threat of winter storms at mid-week and the arrival of snow later in the week kept the total number of visitors below those of recent flower shows.

Despite the challenges outside, the sense of spring bloomed inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

More than 2,000 guests attended the black-tie Preview Party, which moved to a new night and a new location – held entirely on the Flower Show floor. Tickets were sold-out long in advance for the Early Morning Tours and the Garden Teas, and attendance soared at the LGBT Party, Wedding Wednesday and Girls Night Out evening events.

Highlights of “Brilliant!” included the amazing design of the Big Ben centerpiece, where the digitally projected show featured popular British rock and comedy icons; a stunning floral interpretation of Jack the Ripper’s reign; the lush kale walls and “livestock” in the PHS Exhibit; and the all-new, LED-illuminated PHS Hamilton Horticourt.

Fabulous new activities were wildly popular at the show. The Make Take Room, where guests could design their own floral fascinator, wristlet or magic wand, lured thousands of creative do-it-yourselfers. The Einstein Healthcare Network PHS Kids Zone, powered by Sprout, was both a haven for young families and a center for interactive, healthy living programs.

The Flower Show played host to First Ladies from near and far. Susan Corbett appeared on the Designer’s Studio stage to share gardening tips from the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence. The state’s U.S. Senate delegation was represented by Kris Toomey (wife of Sen. Pat Toomey) who visited the show with Terese Casey (wife of Sen. Bob Casey). Mrs. Ming Wang, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., and Mrs. Xing Liu, wife of China’s Deputy Consul General in New York, organized a group of 62 special guests to the Flower Show.

Celebrities also stopped by the Flower Show to greet visitors and promote new products. Food Network star Sandra Lee introduced three flavors of vodka, and “Real Housewives of New York” cast member Ramona Singer signed bottles of her new wines. Celtic Thunder singer Keith Harkin performed at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration on closing day of the show.

The royal treatment this year included the coronation of the “Queen of the Flower Show,” a competition in which the monarch was chosen by popular vote. The winner: Valerie McLaughlin, a longtime PHS member and Flower Show participant.

“Brilliant!” caught the attention of national media this year. The show was featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, US Airways Magazine, AAA World, and hundreds of regional print, online and broadcast outlets. Even the TV phenomenon American Idol paid a visit to the Flower Show as part of a cross-country promotional tour, filming a “passing of the microphone” from PHS President Drew Becher to 18-year-old show exhibitor Erinmarie Byrnes. Continued…

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It might be a time to plant that vegetable garden in Georgia, but on Wednesday the garden and design book author, James Farmer, told the Atlanta Top News Examiner that it is soon going to be a time to cook, too. And his scheduled appearance at the 2013 Southeastern Flower Show this weekend is as good a time as any to start finding out why.

In Wednesday’s interview, Farmer said that his newest book, “A Time to Cook: Dishes from My Southern Sideboard,” would be popping up all over book stores soon like flowers in the garden. (My words, not his).

He’s very excited about its second creative book effort, and hopefully will have some on hand this weekend for his eager fans, since it is supposed to hit books stores in March thanks to his Gibbs-Smith Publishers.

It is also that season right now in which gardeners around the country–especially the South, like Georgia, where Farmer hails from–start playing with the dirt and getting their seeds ready to put in the soil. And that’s where James Farmer’s “A Time to Plant,” book comes into the picture.

“Time to Plant: Southern-Style Garden Living,” is his earlier book, the one that will be the focus of his guest lecture on Sunday, March 17 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. And Farmer shared how he came up with the title.

It was ecclesiastical. That was the first inspiration,” he said, referring to Ecclesiastes 3:2 in the Bible, which refers to the fact that there is a time for every season.

“The verses there [in that book] point to the fact that timing is everything, including in the garden,” he said.

In light of his answer, we asked if the landscape design and gardening expert had a spiritual side, and he acknowledged that he most certainly did.

He also admitted he has a soft spot in his heart for the Georgia Rural Medical Scholarship Program (GRMSP), which was the benefactor of the proceeds raised by the Lock, Stock and Barrel fundraiser held at the Shepherd Farm in early March of this year. He was in attendance, of course.

Farmer, along with Gena Knox, a landscape architect and author, provided participants of the event with beautiful tablescapes and prepared the food served, using their creative skills to help raise funds that will be used to house and assist medical college student scholars.

It is an organization that I really enjoy, and really respect,” he said, sharing that his father had been one of the scholars at one time.

The Georgia native also respects and enjoys being a part of the American Camellia Society, where he currently serves as the groups national spokesperson. His participation with this floral-loving group serves to remind him of a tie he has with his great grandmother, due to her love of the Camellia flower, which he adopted, it appears.

With the headquarters being close to home, when I think of Camellia’s I think of places like my great grandmother’s garden and the beautiful Camellia’s there. There just a part of, not only my home’s legacy in Middle Georgia, but my legacy as well. I think of how they bloom, and how my grandmother decorated with them. They’re just very sentimental,” he said.

The sentimental cooking and garden design enthusiast not only revealed his spiritual, romantic and compassionate sides during the course of the interview on Wednesday; he also revealed something else about himself: How he wishes for his friends and acquaintances to think about him.

James Farmer III wants everyone to realize what an “authentic” man he is, and that authenticity is “who I am, to the core.” He also wants people to realize that he “truly lives and works and relishes the southern lifestyle.” And it is likely few with disagree with that self appraisal given his success in the southern garden and design field, just watch this Today Show clip if you have any doubts.

When asked to reveal any future dreams he might have which has not been realized yet, the landscaping expert emphasized a desire to influence his generation to garden and then to use the harvest as food and for home decor purposes.

Talk turned back to the Southeastern Flower Show coming up this weekend and he offered up these planting tips for Georgians right now:

Late spring and early summer crops such as greens, like salad greens, as well as early spring herbs, like parsley and chervil and mint could be planted now. And then I’d wait to Easter to plant thinks like basil and tomatoes,” he said. (Chervil is an herb often used in French cuisine. It has a mild flavor with a hint of liquorice).

A treat for those who attend the Southeastern Horticultural Society lecture by Farmer on Sunday will be the opportunity to see a slideshow presentation of some gardens he has designed in the state.

He plans to talk to lecture guests about how understanding the time to plant your crops can help take the quandary out of the equation when it comes to determining the right time to prune and harvest their gardens to.

And he admitted that he can remember attending the flower show when he was younger (he’s only 30 now), and thinking that “one day maybe I’ll be here. And, now, guess what, I get to.”

Tickets will be available for purchase at the flower show event for Farmer’s lecture at noon on Sunday, but it is on a first-come, first-served basis, with limited seating. So be sure to purchase it when you pay for admission. Tickets are $28 for one-day flower show admittance, with the cost of attending Farmer’s lecture included.

The Boston Flower Garden Show this year is full of temptations. Visitors will want to take a seat in armchairs centered around stone fireplaces and waterfall pools, and they will want to enter the serenity of Japanese-influenced gardens.

In their interpretation of the theme “Seeds of Change,” many designers have explored innovative ways to bring the living room outdoors and to use the aesthetic of Japanese design to create spaces for relaxation. The show, which runs through Sunday at the Seaport World Trade Center, features not only what visitors expect – beautiful landscapes of flowers, shrubs and trees, handsome stonework and lively water features – but also live chickens, exotic birds and a 5-foot long Chinese Golden dragon made from plants and flowers.

“Our audience is getting more adventurous,” said show director Carolyn Weston. “People seem hungry for information beyond the basics of gardening. The garden has become more than a place to plant flowers and shrubs, but a place to do adventurous things.”

Adventure can take the form of growing plants vertically and on pergola roofs, incorporating recycled and salvaged materials, embracing the aesthetic of other cultures and breaking down the boundaries between indoors and out.

In the garden by Maria Sadek, owner of Interior Designs by M.S., a large seating area is covered by a pergola made from recycled timber supports and a roof of salvaged windows and stained glass. On its border, an 8-foot high “living wall” is made of herbs and spouts water into a rectangular pool.

An outdoor living area by Rutland Nurseries has a weather-proof television mounted on a mahogany wall, a waterfall flowing out of a fieldstone stack onto polished stones, and a granite fire pit.

In an 1,800 square foot exhibit by Paul Miskovsky of Miskovsky Landscaping of Falmouth, the seating area is part of a garden that includes a hen house with Rhode Island Reds, a garden shed and raised bed garden, a bamboo arbor, a bocce court, a fiberglass sculpture of a trumpeter, and an abundance of informal and formal plantings.

“I tried to incorporate many different concepts and broke almost every rule when it comes to gardening,” Miskovsky said.

In his Japanese influenced garden, Jay Bearfield, owner of Liquid Landscape Designs of Carlisle, placed a round pillow, perfect for yoga or meditating, at the end of a stone bridge in the center of his garden. Above it, Buddha’s face looks down, created by a tower of mosaics.

“I like to create spaces that encourage people to interact with their gardens,” said Barfield said. “This is a place that can create ‘seeds of change’ within people.

In addition to the 20 large gardens, designers created “Pocket Change Gardens,” three 6-by-6 foot patio gardens with a budget of just $250. Deborah Trickett, owner of The Captured Garden of Milton, expanded on the silvery and copper colors of coins to create an intimate corner, where a silver-colored patio chair is surrounded by silvery paint cans and duct tubing turned into planters hosting plants in a variety of hues of green and copper, shapes and textures.

“My seeds of change is to find new uses for things and to reuse what you have,” Trickett said. “These plants are low-maintenance and can be brought indoors in the winter.”

Throughout the show, lectures and presentations cover common gardening and design issues, as well related hobbies, such as bee keeping, chicken raising, canning and preserving. Local designers Derek Stern and Dean Marisco, hosts of the DIY show “Indoors Out,” will speak about designing for the outdoors. More than 100 vendors exhibit in the Garden Marketplace.

In addition, amateur gardeners show their skill in Blooms!, sponsored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. Not to be missed, the displays reveal a wide range of creativity as people use flowers and plants to decorate hats, make jewelry, prepare a child’s birthday table, adorn doors and represent Boston landmarks.

IF YOU GO . . . .

The Boston Flower Garden Show runs from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston. Tickets are $20 adults, $17 seniors, $10 ages 6-17 and free ages 5 and under. Tickets available at all Roche Brothers and Sudbury Farms and at the show. For more information, go to www.thebostonflowershow.com.

Jody Feinberg may be reached at jfeinberg@ledger.com.

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Garden Design, the upscale bimonthly home/garden/lifestyle magazine that launched with fanfare in April 1994, shut down quietly on March 13. A statement from owner (since 2006) Bonnier Corp. blamed “the economic climate, compounded by the significant industry transition to digital, [that] limited the growth in advertising needed to make [GD] viable for our future.”

GD was the brainchild of Chris Meigher, the former Time Inc. executive whose credits included the 1990 launch of then-Time Inc.-partnered Martha Stewart Living. (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia did not form until 1997.) This first Meigher Communications brand was introduced at the New York Flower and Garden Show in Rockefeller Center, and investors were said to have included 1989-1992 Time Warner co-CEO Nick Nicholas. In 1995, Meigher and editorial director Dorothy Kalins launched the epicurean Saveur (which continues), and the future seemed bright.

But Meigher’s financial problems in 2000 led to his selling both magazines to Orlando-based World Publications founder (1984) founder Terry Snow for a bargain-basement $7 million that August. When Snow sold World to Bonnier Corp. for an estimated $100 million in May 2006, the two were part of the package.

By then, the 185,000-circ GD was the weaker of the two (Saveur‘s rate base is 325,000), and it could be that Snow–as Bonnier president following the World sale–kept GD afloat because it was a favorite of his wife.

If there was “protection,” it ended with Snow’s Jan. 14, 2013, resignation. It was successor and Snow protégé Dave Freygang who made the call. The GD Web site and Facebook page will be taken down on June 1.

 

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Just as you evaluate your landscape site, it’s important to evaluate your gardening goals and preferences.

How much time do you want to spend on maintenance? Tracy DiSabato-Aust, author of “The Well Designed Mixed Garden,” encourages homeowners to make that one of the first considerations in garden design. This can help determine the size and style of the border as well as how many “high maintenance” plants to include.

“Select at least 70 percent low maintenance plants,” said DiSabato-Aust, who spoke at the North Central Wisconsin Master Gardeners’ Garden Vision seminar in January. “It’s OK to have a couple prima donnas,” she said, such as delphinium. But unless you have unlimited time or money to contract for maintenance, lower maintenance plants keep your borders from feeling like chores.

Low maintenance plants should have at least four of these traits, she said: long-lived; insect and disease resistant or tolerant; noninvasive; minimal pruning requirements; minimal division and staking requirements; and minimal fertilizer requirements. If you want even lower maintenance, choose 75 percent or more plants with these traits.

The style of your border should reflect your style and the mood you want to create. Do you prefer a formal or informal style? Strong rectangular lines are formal; undulating curves have an informal flow.

Often landscaping is formal close to the house and progressively less formal away from the home or in the back yard. Large masses of fewer plants work well in large spaces or borders some distance from a house. They may be out of scale or boring in small spaces.

“Every site has energy associated with it,” DiSabato-Aust said. Rather than rushing to complete a garden, live in the space for a time. Observe the lighting and shadows, the style of your home, inside or out.

When determining a border’s size and shape, outline it with a garden hose or outdoor extension cord. Walk through the area, consider paths, seating areas, how it fits with the surroundings. Examine the proposed location from various angles and times of day.

Several design principles can help and are listed below. A helpful guide is to keep asking: Does it fit?

Keep scale and proportion in mind to create balance. Scale is the relative size of an element or area. Scale can be set by many things, including your house, an arbor, other structure or existing trees.

Proportion is the relationship of the elements’ sizes to each other, such as the length of a border compared to its width. A rule of proportion common in nature and taught in art schools is this ratio: 1 to 1.618. It is known as the golden mean. Using it, a bed that is 13 feet long should be about eight feet wide. This width is the minimum DiSabato-Aust recommends for a mixed border.

The golden mean can also help with placement of structural elements, such as a tree or art. Place it one-third of the way in from one end.

If building a freestanding island or raised bed, make it three times as long as it is wide, she advises. For good proportion, keep the tallest plant in this bed one-half the width of the bed. If your island bed is 10 feet wide, for example, it would be 30 feet long, and the tallest plant would be about five feet. DiSabato-Aust recommends island beds no wider than six feet so you can reach in to maintain plants without compacting the soil.

Garden design embraces three basic principles: order, unity and rhythm.

Order is the visual structure of a design. It can be achieved by symmetry, asymmetry and mass planting. Balance is the feeling that different elements of the design fit together well. Symmetry establishes balance – think of two identical trees or shrubs on either side of a front door. Balance can also be created by repeating similar colors and plant materials.

Asymmetrical balance is created by proper placement and proportion. Because a bold texture carries more weight than fine-textured plants, more fine texture is needed for balance. One large tree can be balanced by a large garden space. With colors, balance one-third intense color such as red with two-thirds lower-tone color, such as blue.

Unity is the design element that brings everything together. When unity is achieved, all elements of a composition are working in harmony.

Unity is created with a certain theme, such as color, type and size of garden bed, or materials. Using only a few colors is an easy way to provide strong unity. Consistency in lines throughout the garden and simplicity in detail add to unity.

To enhance unity, consider one dominant element as a focal point.

Repetition can unite a garden border. This may include repeating a botanical group, such as ornamental grasses or dwarf conifers or a favorite perennial through the landscape. Too often, we behave more like plant collectors than designers, creating a botanical museum. Limiting the number of different types of plants used unifies the design.

“You can still be a plant collector and designer. Plant in drifts,” DiSabato-Aust said. Grouping plants in masses or drifts creates greater impact and order. Planting in groups of three (or five or seven) or another odd number is recommended for unity.

When elements of a design are physically linked together, the eye moves from one element to another. Plants and paving materials linking planting areas together establish this interconnection.

Rhythm is time and movement in the garden. Spacing and timing of elements create patterns for movement. It can be established by repeating plants or forms. Repeating a vertical form, such as fence posts, at close intervals speeds movement. Widely spaced repeating shapes have slower rhythm. You can also alternate different repeating elements by size, shape or color.

A gradual change in one or more elements also establishes rhythm. An example is transitioning from cool to warm colors, fine to coarse texture, from low to tall forms.

Next: Color, texture and form.

11 March 2013

This year’s Chelsea Flower Show will be a first on four levels: garden designer Darren Hawkes, eye-care charity SeeAbility and sponsor Coutts are all taking part for the first time; meanwhile a plant not before seen at Chelsea will make its debut.

11 March 2013

This year’s Chelsea Flower Show will be a first on four levels: garden designer Darren Hawkes, eye-care charity SeeAbility and sponsor Coutts are all taking part for the first time; meanwhile a plant not before seen at Chelsea will make its debut.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — The 28^th Annual San Francisco Flower Garden Show dramatically ushers in Spring with a spectacular new show featuring unique and beautiful display gardens created by top West Coast garden designers inspired by this year’s international “Gardens Make the World Go Round” theme. It’s held over five days, Wednesday through Sunday, March 20-24, 2013 at the San Mateo Event Center. Tickets are available at www.sfgardenshow.com and it’s free for kids 16 under.

New gardens this year show a great diversity in design approach, green materials and bold styling.

The Globe- “A World of Succulent Gardens”: Succulent Gardens, comprises the world’s largest living, rotating succulent Globe with succulents depicting the seas and continents.

China- “Harmonious Visions”: Academy of Art University illustrates powerful use of simple elements of nature to create a place of serenity and contemplation.

England- “Wanted Weeds”: Urban Hedgerow inspires conversation about European weed “invaders” with their true virtue being host plants nectar sources.

Wonderland- “The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday”: Arterra Landscape Architects features all that a garden can be– fun, colorful and creative.

Mexico- “Inside Out”: Arizona State University uses inspiration from urban Mexican culture, combining elements that differ in size and function.

Hawaii- Cummings Masonry Landscape uses cliff rock and resort-style water use in their outdoor living design.

Thailand- Bay Maples garden uses recirculating aquaponic vegetable beds, with salvaged and re-purposed materials.

Babylon and Assyria- “Ancient Gardens” :SF Flower Garden Show, Quality First Construction, Cummings Masonry, Golden Gate Palms, Vecchio Olives, Pacific Nurseries, French’s Waterscapes, and Zeterre– An interpretation of the historical Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

United States- “California Dreaming Green”: Gibeaus Gardens features color and form ensuring a haven for birds, bees and butterflies.

The Island of Flores- “Aqua Vita”: Goulart Designs focuses on the healing waters of the Azores, with natural water features, boulder seats and natural stone pathways.

The Netherlands- “Tectonic Rift—Pangea Future”: The Groundworks Office symbolizing the ephemeral quality of landscape and delicate plantings.

China- “Harmonious Visions”: UC Berkeley-The school of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning design is their riff on a Chinese garden.

The Philippines: Landscape Restoration by Dan Pozzi shows a tropical paradise with simple elements easily incorporated in any yard.

Ireland- “Glade”: Mariposa Gardening Design and Greenlee Associates features dry-laid leaning flagstone walls and conifer trees evoking the mystery of a meadow glade.

Iceland- “The Hidden People”: McKenna Landscape amplifies the people of Icelandic folklore utilizing natural landforms suitable for outdoor dining and play space.

South Africa- “Djuma Safari Lodge”: Outdoor Environments creates a lodge lying in the heart of the veldt, the great grasslands flowing through Africa.

Italy-“Bel Giardino, Alfresco”: Seville Landscape–reminiscent of an ancient Roman-style pleasure garden including courtyard and kitchen.

Australia-Envision Landscape Studio—A garden of Mediterranean-climate plants suitable for growing in the Bay Area.

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