LIVING ON THE EDGE
Living Green garnered five prestigious awards at the 2008 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. The collaborative effort, with designer Tim O'Shea and landscape contractors Rock and Rose Landscapes, won over the crowds with a believable, multi-terraced garden set in the context of a California coastal canyon. The boulder-laden planting palette ranged from drought-tolerant natives, including an overstory of specimen interior live oaks, to exotic proteas, succulents, and companion plantings from continents as far flung as South Africa and Australia. Go here to view photo coverage.

NEW: LUCIANO TEMPO ARTS AND ANTIQUES
Luciano is back and wowing the California design community. The maestro Luciano, a grand tour de force creator of the exotic, eclectic, and all things beautiful, is showing his product line exclusively at Living Green. His creations range from classic carved stone planters, figurative bronze sculpture, elaborate garden fountains and ornaments, to his excavation glass Murano lighting line, and unusual, sublime art and antiques. Luciano also fabricates custom designs in stone, bronze, wood and metal. View our current inventory.

 

SAUSALITO HILLSIDE GARDEN
Formerly a slope of dense, mature Black Acacia trees, the hillside was clearcut and pits were excavated for plantings of large clumps of Chinese Timber Bamboo (Phyllostachys Vivax). A landmark planting of cold-hardy, exotic looking, Chinese Fountain Palms (Livistona Chinensis), was interspaced as a subtropical counterpoint to the linear bamboo. Finally, "no-mow" fescue sod was rolled out to create a lush, year-round, low maintenance carpet of shiny green. "Yellow Waves" phormiums and "Japanese Blood Grasses" add a random stroke of color and seasonality to an otherwise green landscape. The accompanying photos were taken less than six months after the landscape was installed. [Click images to enlarge.]