Inspiration for a small transitional full sun backyard garden path in Chicago for spring.

Transitional home design photo in San Francisco

Photography: Avishai Finkelstein
Inspiration for a modern living room remodel in Tel Aviv

Denisa Anderson of Merrily Along Florals in Everson, Wash., sourced ingredients entirely from her cutting garden for this seasonal and feminine arrangement. The flowers include: Branching sunflower Florenza Heirloom mums Scabiosa- Dark Knight Amaranth- Hot Biscuit and Opppeo seeds- from Floret Didiscus- Lacy Blue seeds- from Floret Weeping Beech tree branches Statice- Apricot- from Johnny’s Seeds Madame Butterfly Snaps Blue hydrangeas Dried fern

Paul Britt photo
Photo of a mid-sized traditional full sun side yard mulch formal garden for fall.

Containers line this backyard deck
Design ideas for a craftsman landscaping in Omaha.

Design ideas for a modern landscaping in San Diego.

Patio - traditional patio idea in Boston

Favio
Inspiration for a contemporary landscaping in Miami.

Example of a huge trendy l-shaped porcelain tile open concept kitchen design in New York with an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances and a peninsula

This project was do in collaboration with my friends at Sweetwater Collaborative. Sweetwater Collaborative is a non-profit organization that work to educate the public about water wise and regenerative landscape practices. Funded by the City of Santa Barbara as well as several other business and agency Sweetwater Collaborative and I worked to installed this project with the help of volunteers. In a hands-on work shop we explained principles of water wise gardening and demonstrated best practices when installing sustainable landscapes. When the owner of this property decided to build an ADU ( Auxiliary Dwelling Unit) in their back yard they expanded the roof line of their property. In order to be in compliance with new California building the project required that a portion of the rain water coming onto this property must be stored on the property. That is where we came into help. Directing down spouts into basins, or swales in the soil is one of the most efficient and cost-effective way to capture and store rain water on a piece of land. Calculations were done to determine the volume of water coming of the roof line in a given rain event from the ADU. The calculations go: square footage of roofline times .62 times 1, for 1” of rain. That total gives you the amount of water in gallons. Then divide the number in gallons by 7.48 find the cubic feet in that number of gallons. Then a basin with that holding capacity was designed into the landscape. Then the plantings were chosen. In this project we went with an 100% California Native Plant palette. We did this to help educate people about all the benefits of growing natives and to show case some of the beautiful plants native to Southern California. Sothern California is how to some of the greatest biodiversity of plants in the world. Native Plants are best adapted to thrive conditions from which they are natively found plus they help provide forage to the native fauna such as birds and insects. Now the tenants in the ADU can look out and enjoy this colorful garden without the home owners needing to pay a huge water bill.

Dustin Kujawski
Home design - modern home design idea in Denver

Reclaimed furniture hand crafted and exclusively imported by Nectar. Here you see our large etched bowl, hand picked and imported from India.