Designed by: Mizue Suda and Yuki Mendia

Created by:

Walnut Total Design,
1522 Walnut Street #4
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-813-2825

This contemporary garden setting combines the best elements of a traditional Mediterranean design and the functionality of a modern space that is both picturesque and functional. The slate path is an inviting trail that brings you into the garden. It provides a pleasant contrast with the cream and terracotta walls. Together these two elements work to highlight and showcase the olive and weeping willow trees that are further accented with the shrubbery and colorful pottery. For those settings where space is a premium this garden design provides a diversity of greenery for the eyes with varied texture and functional forms.

Award: Bronze

Designers and Creators: UC Davis, Landscape Architecture Students

Created by:

Sarah Hayward
Tenay Fihe
Ken Konecny
Kari Koch
Mike Harris
Eric Mullin
Elizabeth Collett
Jessica Chase

California’s Central Valley is one of California’s under-valued aesthetic resources. Riparian/river corridors, agricultural croplands, and foothills create a uniquely woven landscape exemplifying California’s interior. These landscapes are threatened by California’s burgeoning developmental sprawl. Our garden seeks to endow viewers with a new appreciation for the Central Valley and promotes the preservation of this valuable open space. Our garden portrays the “carpet” of the central valley from an aerial perspective. Rolling foothill meld into the agricultural floor of the valley. There, the riparian landscape with its requisite poplar forest segues through agricultural fields. Amidst the quilted fields stands the lonely Oak tree, constructed of rebar to symbolize developmental incursion. All of our plants thrive in California’s dry temperate climate.
Award: Bronze

Designed by: UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design

Created by:

Yasmine Farazian
510-559-6933
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Eddie Beckhusen
Phone: 510-559-6933
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Chryssa Udvardy
Phone: 510-453-9113
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Patricia Algara Kimball
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This installation uses the interplay of light and shadow to express the accumulated memories and knowledge of Landscape Architecture into a three dimensional realm.
Award: Gold

Designed and Created by:

John M. Lamos
Studio Replica
163 Kentucky Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
707-765-2268

Donald G. Boos
Don Boos Design
488 Main Street, #200A
Murphys, CA 95247
209-728-8526

Nature's dreams are realized in this sensual garden utilizing textural and color castings never seen before in the world of architecture and design.

This garden vision lingers between a moist edge of moss and the murmuring fall of waterfall, between the profound permanence of sheared rock walls and the bleached, dry and brittle boards on a barn, between cascading layers of fresh fragrant foliage and a coarse textured fabric methodically woven by hand. Anchored by rustic yet elegant concrete castings taken from original sources, our garden celebrates natural rock formations, shifting sands, parched cracked riverbeds, rough primitive weaves and crackled and worn linen. All presented in pre-cast modular or custom forms that compliment and enrich the flow and functions of our daily lives.

Award: Golden Gate Cup, Gold

Designed and Created by: David Fazzio and Paul Rozanski

Sonoma Mission Gardens
851 Craig Avenue,
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-938-5743

Award: Bronze

Designed by:
Shirley Alexandra Watts
Garden Design and Installation
1000 Park Street
Alameda, CA 94501
510-521-5223

Created by: Ross Craig
2419 1/2 Oregon Street
Berkeley, CA
510-763-7576

Inspired by Francesco Petrarca's Canzoniere 'Chaire, fresche et dolci aque' this garden, a contemporary interpretation of the medieval pleasure garden, explores the relation between beauty and sadness, memory and loss. Petrarca's stunningly beautiful poem, one of hundreds written to Laura de Noves in the fourteenth century, describes his memory of an idyllic garden scene and his unrequited love for Laura. The text is printed on the translucent fabric of the water walls that form the central enclosed space and is spoken in an intimate sound piece, which can be heard as the visitor wanders though the garden. Enormous bales of aluminum scrap are used as sculptural elements while the planting is a wild tangle of flowering trees and rose brambles. Love hurts.
Award: Garden Creator's Choice Award, APLD Award, Gold

Designed and Created by: Joleen and Tony Morales

Redwood Landscape, Inc.
P.O. Box 387
Millbrae, CA 94030
650-347-1523

Ever need to just get away for a while? Leave the hustle and bustle behind and go for walk on the path less traveled.

Doesn’t the cobblestone path feel good through your shoes?

Look, a bench up ahead by the pond. A rest seems like a good idea. The shade of the trees is nice. They look so beautiful this time of spring.

The pond seems peaceful and inviting. Go ahead; soak your feet for a bit.

Where did the time go? Oh well, back to the world for now.

It will be nice to travel this path again.

Award: Sunset Western Living Award, CANGC Award, Gold

Designers and Creators: Sean Quigley

Created by:

Paxton Gate
824 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-824-1872

In designing this garden I have created a contemporary residential garden in a typical San Francisco backyard. Atop the sloped garden, which is traversed by a series of circular step-landings, is a simple façade that evokes the back of a Victorian home. The style might be described as “Rustic Modern” as I have incorporated geometric shapes and modern materials such as Plexiglas with traditional stonework and non-rigid placement. My favorite element is that the main landing, at the entry to the garden, is pierced by a pie wedge of Plexiglas under which water runs.

Award: Gold

Designers and Creators: James Pettigrew and Sean Stout

Created by:

Organic Mechanics
735 Geary Street #103
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-567-6367

re cy cle (rè-‘si-kel) Verb 1: To pass again through a series of changes or treatments.
2: to process (as liquid body waste, glass or cans) in order to regain material for human use. 3: to adapt to a new use.
gar den (gär-dªn) Noun 1: A plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, vegetables or trees are cultivated. 2: A rich well-cultivated area. 3: A container (as a window box) planted with a variety of plants.
Award: Gold

Designers and Creators: Leita Brown

Created by:

Natural Gardens
99 Scenic Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-460-5420

We can share the magic of the natural world with our communities simply by re-creating our front yards. We can start by discarding traditional ideas such a lawns, and instead, restore California’s native habitats one yard at a time. In the process of restoring habitats that encourage the return of native birds and butterflies, that are low maintenance and demonstrate a reverence for water, we showcase the beauty and versatility of local flora. Let’s share these ideas with our communities and show concern for our environment at the same time. They just might be contagious!
Award: Bronze

Designers and Creators: The Mycological Society of San Francisco

Created by:

The Mycological Society of San Francisco
Ken Litchfield,
199 Museum Way,
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-863-7618

Though many gardeners think “Fungicide!” when noticing fungi in their garden, our garden shows that you can intentionally incorporate many kinds of beneficial mushrooms into your garden for food, medicine, aesthetic beauty, and soil building. Mushrooms enhance shady areas, add a productive understory to the flower or vegetable garden, enchant lawns with fertilizing fairy rings, and speed up decomposition and soil building in mulches and compost piles. They have beautiful colors, forms, and textures. Some are ephemeral, popping up and disappearing quickly, while others form semi permanent sculptures on logs. Even lichens, fungal/algal symbionts, produce intriguing contributions to gardens.

Award: Silver

Designed and Created by: Ric Lopez

MODERNPAST
677 Chenery Street,
San Francisco, CA 94131
415-333-9007

A garden retreat inspired by the simplicity in mid-century design using the clean lines of a raised lounge amongst a tapestry of segmented planting and hardscape. Contemplate by a water feature and plants; enjoy some leisure time in your own backyard.
Award: Silver

Designed and Created by: Omar Khorsheed

Habitat & DeVries
P.O. Box 943,
Alamo, CA 94507
925-279-3006

Every Place And No Place We Know

Cyclical and repetitive themes within a garden narrative - intentionally segregated spaces yet integrated in final execution with the use of planting as the cohesive medium. Architectural elements float in repetition throughout this generous yet intimate space. Use of artisan steel in the terraced planters, structures, vine trellises and railings juxtaposed with stone flatwork and fine gravel spaces. Dualistic use in the functionality and aesthetic value of ‘Sculptural Steel.’ Emphasis on – grasses, indigenous materials and native mass plantings. Segregation and cohesion of spaces. - Indirection and movement through spaces.

Award: Bronze

Designed and Created by:

Beth Mullins
Growsgreen Landscape Design
584 Anderson Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-336-9829

Amy Berger
Stomping Ground Landscape Design
930 Hayes Street #10
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-771-7786

In this garden we re-interpret succulents, plants usually associated with the desert, by placing them in a new context: the Japanese Tea Garden. Taken out of their arid Western landscapes and placed in a Japanese-influenced garden, the unique forms and repeating folds of the succulents now remind us of Origami sculptures. We highlight this by juxtaposing Nature's Origami with Origami art. In Succulent Origami, we incorporate the respect for nature found in traditional Japanese Gardens by using recycled materials and water-wise plantings. This pocket garden is a place for quiet meditations and peaceful experiences.

Award: Silver

Designers and Creators: Benjamin Goulart and Cash French

Created by:
Goulart Designs
22244 Main Street
Hayward, CA 94541
510-410-0445

French’s Waterscapes
5202 Foothill Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94601
415-994-4555

Exploration leads to discovery as you walk alongside babbling brooks and a cornucopia of cascades. This path is a symbol of life and its many mysterious directions. Leading to romantic hideaways, this journey through our garden will be an inspiration. From private benches to cozy corners, you never know what you may encounter next. A meandering vacation full of hidden treasures and awe-inspiring water creations. This is not only an escape from the mundane daily grind and bind, but a sanctuary of expression and mystery. Explore the path, and let it be your guiding force to paradise.
Award: Silver