Native Carex and Iris in Miraloma Park

Native Carex and Iris in Miraloma Park

Score a point for the city planners: their new landscaping at the Stanford Heights Reservoir, in the San Francisco neighborhood of Miraloma Park uses locally appropriate native plants in simple bold strokes of panache. The design is a triumph of simplicity. We are so...
Deck as Bridge across Concrete Trench

Deck as Bridge across Concrete Trench

Landscape design can bridge otherwise impassable hurdles. Consider the case of this San Francisco backyard: a sheer slope on the southeast face of Mount Davidson, where a concrete drainage trench carries winter’s seasonal river and then runs dry for summer and...