Showcase Features: This spacious property, redesigned in 2017, borders on open space and is nestled against a backdrop of graceful coast live oaks, toyon, manzanitas, redbuds and lemonade berries. About two-thirds of the property is under cultivation and includes an unusually large variety of native species. The homeowners are knowledgeable gardeners who welcome local wildlife into their unfenced garden.

The garden recently won a National Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Other Garden Attractions: Mediterranean plants share the space with natives throughout the garden. Featured plants include native bulbs and grasses, coffeeberry, ceanothus, pitcher sage, coyote brush, chamise, native perennials and annual wildflowers. Also found are hillside gooseberry, sticky monkeyflower, blue elderberry, salvias, snowberry, coast silk tassel, matilija poppy, California goldenrod and yerba buena. The back garden has more surprises, where many succulents are displayed in pots and air plants hang from the manzanitas. Gravel paths meander through the beds and along the outskirts of the garden, where plantings merge seamlessly into the surrounding natural landscape. There is also a roof garden where grasses are mixed with seasonal native wildflowers and bulbs.

Gardening for Wildlife: This is a certified Portola Valley Habitat Garden and is visited by rabbits, deer, coyotes, bobcats, skunks, raccoons, foxes, mountain lions, gopher snakes, frogs, woodrats, squirrels and many kinds of birds and insectsThis is a habitat garden and is visited by rabbits, deer, coyotes, bobcats, many kinds of birds and insects, gopher snakes, frogs, woodrats and squirrels.

Years of CA Native Gardening at this Location: 29

Garden Size: 1.12 acres

Designer: Scott Lewis Landscape Design
Installer: Curtis Edward Dennison Landscape, Inc.
Rock walls and stone sculptures: Hamilton Stoneworks

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