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Native plants and modern materials always figure highly in our thoughts.
This section explores the zeitgeist of contemporary landscape design, sweeping aside cliché to consider new models of the built environment. Our most prolific contributor, Geoffrey Coffey, cut his teeth writing the “Locals Only” column on native plants for the San Francisco Chronicle.
A Wrangling of Species on Mount Davidson
The northeast slope of Mount Davidson supports a wonderful population of native wildflowers, grasses, and shrubs that, when planted at home, can enrich San Francisco gardens with a sense of local identity. This is also a botanical battlefield where mankind only...
Corona Heights: Intersection of Seabed & Sky
Mysterious and epic dramas take place at the bottom of the sea, where massive forces meet microbiology. In the red peaks of Corona Heights we can read an engrossing chapter: this stark hill with the distinctive flora and the unbeatable view over San Francisco is...
Splashes with Wolves: Lobos Creek is S.F.’s last open waterway
Once upon a time, four creeks flowed in San Francisco, as rainfall draining from the central ridge of Twin Peaks and Mt. Davidson must return over land to its oceanic origins. But today the murmur of the eastward-flowing Mission, Islais, and Yosemite Creeks is heard...
Fabulous Fynbos / South African Plants Thrive in Bay Area
South African plants thrive in the familiar Mediterranean climate of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Western Cape Province of South Africa holds the richest biodiversity in all of botany. Three-quarters of its 8,600 plant species are endemic, flourishing upon a mere...
Manzanita Charms Bay Area Terrain
If local gardeners rightly consider the Bay Area a slice of Eden, then the manzanita deserves special attention: its name is Spanish for "little apple." Knowledge and sin may not necessarily derive from this gorgeous evergreen, but temptation lurks always among its...
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Summer bounty of western spice bush. #calycanthus #builtbymadrono
This riotous patch of seep monkeyflower enjoys the high water table. #mimulusguttatus #builtbymadrono
The blooming bush anemone is happy to see you too. #carpenteria #californianativeplants #builtbymadrono
Redwood decking. #builtbymadrono
Garden stair stringer with Ipe cladding. #builtbymadrono
Recirculating waterfall with California native plants and Japanese koi. #gardendesign #waterfeature #builtbymadrono
The giant chalk dudleya cuts a handsome figure. #dudleyabrittonii #californianativeplants #builtbymadrono
Corten sidewalk planter with integrated jobsite signage. #builtbymadrono
Installing a modern window-box kitchen garden @quince_sf #culinarygarden #builtbymadrono
A dozen years later, this Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’ we planted for a hilltop client in...
Retaining wall and “green screen” of fast-growing vines including California native wild grape. #builtbymadrono
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