Rustic Canyon Home Is A Natural Beauty
Los Angeles Times. April 12, 2014. By Anne Colby: Rustic Canyon’s sylvan beauty and funky charm cast its spell on Jill Soffer a dozen years ago. She liked the neighborhood’s relaxed environment and abundance of sycamore trees and purchased a home there in 2002.
Interview with Cassy Aoyagi
Dwell on Design Blog. February 13, 2014. Sarah Amandolare: Sarah questions Cassy Aoyagi about the balance between the science of sustainability and the demands of design in creating optimal landscapes.
Instead of Lippia, Try These Lawn Substitutes
Los Angeles Times. November 9, 2013. Cassy Aoyagi: Question: When I moved to Northridge in 1951, every nursery carried flats of lippia, a cheap, tough, drought-resistant ground cover and lawn substitute. When I ordered it at a nursery, it took months to get, in spite of the fact that it is grown in Northern California, and it was expensive. Do you know why it has disappeared?
Santa Monica Workman’s Cottage and Garden Tour
Santa Monica Conservancy News. September 2013. By Sherrill Kushner: Historic places can range from the grand to the humble and all contribute to a city’s unique history if preserved. A humble yet creatively renovated Victorian cottage of the late 1890s was the site of a recent Conservancy tour August 18. The home and gardens of Hilda Weiss and Wayne Lindberg revealed how a 130-year-old structure can be expanded and updated into a comfortable space adapted to today’s living standards while incorporating its historical features. (Page 4)
Dwell on Design: Top 10 Talks
Land8Lounge. July 13, 2013. FormLA’s Cassy Aoyagi and Wendy Proud of Mountain States Wholesale Nursery discussed the beauty, appropriateness, and water-wisdom of installing California native plants into the residential landscape. FormLA has trademarked a lawn mix called “IdealMow” that can be formulated specifically for a general region, vicinity, or a specific microclimate, while MSWN’s “use of desert-adapted plants as landscape materials” has been on the leading edge of landscape architecture in the arid west for more than 40 years.
Pasadena Showcase House of Design
HomeWizards. May 4, 2013. By Cindy Dole and Eric Stromer: The HomeWizards interview Cassy Aoyagi and other Pasadena Showcase House designers, eliciting details to help listeners recreate their Showcase looks.
Privacy Hedges: Why A Mix of Plants Is Better Than One
Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2013. By Craig Nakano and Cassy Aoyagi: You might recall that when a reader wrote about twin rows of Italian cypress — one established and healthy, the other newer and dying — the SoCal Garden Clinic asked a Pasadena nurseryman to tackle the question of why the plants might be struggling for survival. Now, with spring planting upon us and installing privacy hedges a priority, we thought we’d get a second opinion from landscape designer Cassy Aoyagi, co-founder and president of the Tujunga firm FormLA Landscaping.
LA at Home: 2013 Pasadena Showcase House Preview
Los Angeles Times. April 18, 2013. By Bob Chamberlin: The annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design, open Sunday to May 19, features the work of more than 25 designers who transformed a 1941 Monterey Colonial in Arcadia originally designed by Roland E. Coate Sr. Take a look at some of the home and garden design ideas that await visitors.
Garden Walls Come Alive with Color and Texture
Washington Post. April 30, 2013. By Sarah Wolfe for the Associated Press: Looking for a fresh way to liven up your garden walls? Think plants, not paintings. Living pictures — cuttings of assorted succulents woven together in everything from picture frames to pallet boxes — have caught on among garden designers and landscapers this spring as an easy, modern way to add color and texture to an outdoor space.
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