Update: Atwater Ave One Year Later

I have to say the homeowners are doing a great job on the landscaping here!
Everything has grown in so nicely, the hedge is doing a great job of creating privacy.
Looks great.
It is amazing the difference the landscaping makes to a home.

Green Plants That Survive Gray Water

Water is the new gold.
As water grows scarcer, you will see imaginative ways to save the precious commodity.
That is what's so great about people, they can figure anything out!
The LA Times has a great article on grey water and planting.

Says the Times:
"Carol Bornstein, co-author of "California Native Plants for the Garden," found 13 public gardens using reclaimed water in the summer in her hometown of Santa Barbara, and she listed the native plants doing well in those gardens. Her list may be as useful for home gardeners as it is for park-keepers, particularly with planting season coming and more Southern Californians looking to recycle their gray water for use in the landscape."
See whole article HERE

Anthropologie's New Retail Concept

Terrain at Styers is Anthropologie's new retail concept.
As this company does a great job at Anthropologie, I'm sure the new concept will be just as amazing.From the looks of it, the concept leans heavily toward the garden.
From their website:

"Terrain offers worldly perspective on plant design and artful attention to detail. We create outdoor living spaces by uniting architecture and landscape. From single container gardens to multi-acre estates, we focus on elevated design and meticulously managed installation.

You'll appreciate our commitment to your garden. Our team of professional landscape architects, designers, and plantsmen offer maintenance services to ensure that as life progresses, gardens expand, and locations change, your garden will thrive with a graceful maturity."

Thanks to Shelterpop.

From the NY Times: A New Look at the Multitalented Man Who Made Tropical Landscaping an Art.
“Burle Marx created tropical landscaping as we know it today, but in doing so he also did something even greater,” said Lauro Cavalcanti, the curator of an exhibition devoted to the work of Burle Marx that runs through March at the Paço Imperial museum in Rio. “By organizing native plants in accordance with the aesthetic principles of the artistic vanguard, especially Cubism and abstractionism, he created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design.”