Planning and planting for a dry future

It’s all about tradeoffs: beautiful lilies, dry lawn. The Bay Area is prized for its mild winters and cloudless summers—the ideal Mediterranean climate, and as we’ve written about before, there is a wide selection of wonderful choices for our gardens that are well suited to going with less water for months at a time. Many […]
This summer, it’s Cool Outside

We are pleased to present this article by JC Miller, curator of the upcoming exhibition Cool Outside: California’s mid-century landscape. Mr. Miller is a licensed landscape architect, a writer, and an educator. He is a partner at Vallier Design Associates, a landscape architecture and planning practice located in the Bay Area. Lean and inspired by […]