VALUED CUSTOMERS & FRIENDS+
Tour days amaze us. The path toward the season naturally deepens friendships. Then we really get to know our homeowner hosts on a different level spending the entire day in their spaces.
It’s such an extraordinary generosity to dedicate not only personal space but a full day to engage and educate. We find nothing more delightful than spending time side-by-side, learning more about our hosts’ distinctive interests, the things they’ve done or plan to do in the garden, and just chatting about life.
As much as the blooms and the sunshine lift our hearts, our tour hosts took them all the way up to the moon. Thank you Claudia and Doug Forbes, Khoi Pham, Michael Solberg, Bea and Tom Schumacher. You made our year!
Sincerely,
Cassy and Kirk Aoyagi
We are grateful to the reporters illustrating the beauty of resilience-saving landscapes.
LA Times. By Jeanette Marantos: Once upon a time, under Universal Studios’ watchful Minion eye, there was a Storybook house in Studio City with a steep, sagging roof, a towering, tottering chimney and a yard so boring and prone to flooding that its charm was pretty much negated. Read More
Get the look! See this garden’s before transformation and its plant palette.
Houzz. By Marianne Lipanovich: A rainy day can be a blessing for your garden, but rain also can lead to erosion, puddling or excess runoff.
Rain gardens, bioswales, dry creek beds and strategically placed rain chains can help you handle that excess water in your yard while simultaneously cleaning it and keeping it out of the stormwater system. Read More
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In contrast to the job of mowing, evolving native plant landscapes looks a lot like play.
By JT Wilkinson: We maintain most of the spaces we design+build, yet we also delight in supporting homeowners who maintain and evolve their spaces. Here is a snapshot of what that means in our 2024 tour gardens. See Client Evolutions
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May 2024
A Storybook Garden’s Story
Capture and Drain Water with Style
Evolving Spaces, Growing Life
Alumroot
BOP Penstemon
Columbine… and More!
So Much Joy…
Thank You Hosts!
Thank You Docents!
Thank You Team!
Blooms-cycles can still surprise us!
Our high rain year saw March-blooming California Lilac linger, and many May-bloomers arrive early for tour season.
Alumroot, BOP Penstemon, and Baby Blue Eyes caught our attention. Which blooms caught yours? Pin your May-Blooming Favorites
Thank you to The Garden Conservancy and Theodore Payne Foundation tour managers, our garden tour hosts, docents, team, and each of you who stopped by to say hi and enjoy! See the Joy
We are so incredibly grateful to our garden hosts who fully engaged with tour goers all day, rain and shine, bringing their own, distinctive expertise, experience, and enthusiasm to each tour.
We were so lucky to have had experienced docents who actively requested to join us, took the time to educate themselves about the gardens, and brought so much delight to tour goers. We appreciate you!
Each year, our team dives into tour season, preparing gardens for tours and joining us in the garden through several weekends. We are so grateful for the support and the joy they bring!
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