Garden Design Magazine

This month, Garden Design asked their contributors “What’s the best green idea you’ve discovered in a garden this year?”  Contributor Debra Prinzing replied:

Southern California is a sea of backyard concrete, which is anything but sustainable. So I’m impressed with the way L.A. garden designer Stephanie Bartron, APLD, of SB Garden Design makes her clients’ concrete patios both permeable and artful.  She redesigns dated patios by cutting out sections of concrete as decorative bands, grids and other patterns.

We’re honored!

The Roseview garden is one of our favorite examples.  And, to be fair, we were inspired by the brilliant Jay Griffith and Rob Steiner, who’ve been cutting up old patios all over this city for some time.

Greywater Liberation Day!

We’re celebrating by sharing California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) new “Emergency Building Standards – Part 5″ (PDF).

It’s 15 pages long, so it may take a while to open…

And we’re ready to help you start graywatering!  Working with a licensed plumber, we can help coordinate getting the water out of your house and into your garden.  The new code requires that outlets be covered by 2″ of mulch or gravel and that the water is sent either into a mulch basin (surrounding a fig or banana tree perhaps) or into an infiltration pit, where larger trees will send their roots to drink and any extra water can slowly filter down to our aquifer.  It’s a good thing!