We’ve received a lot of questions about how we create succulent topiaries…and since we’re feeling very gracious…here is how to make your own fantastic succulent garden art! Ingredients: Rooted succulents Growing mixture of soil and polymer crystals Sheet moss Wire … Continue reading →

Director of Landscape Architecture, Ron Stoltz, ASLA, CELA with Heather Lenkin, AIA, ASLARon and I are beginning to discuss design concepts for the new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) Green Roof.The CALA building will be the first LEED … Continue reading →

These handouts are from a recent lecture that Heather gave at the Gamble House this April. Hopefully you will find them helpful. Included are some of our favorite plants, a soil recipe, and some helpful calculations for setting up your … Continue reading →

Heather has been in Mississippi this past week working in cooperation with Cottage Living Magazine to design a garden for a home that was recently rebuilt after being absolutely devastated by Hurricane Katrina. (See original entry for more info.)  Heather … Continue reading →

The owners of this 1945 San Marino home were bored with their garden. They would be the first to admit that they hadn’t spent more than forty hours there in forty years. What they needed was a space that worked … Continue reading →

Heather had already designed the [client’s] front garden, taking into account the scale and style of their 1950s house to forge a seamless indoor-outdoor transition. While the front yard was spacious and flat, the back presented unique challenges. The space … Continue reading →

A path of Arizona flagstone seamed with thyme threads between ruffled border’s to Heather’s office. Potted succulent topiaries flank the garden entrance. “orange King’ bougainvillea swaths a corner of the cottage and ‘Constellation’ dogwood routes traffic either left toward the … Continue reading →

Rose petals in an antique Roman fountain make a single color accent in the Lenkin’s Italian garden. Photography by Steve Gunther.

A garden inspired by Mediterranean plants leads to a statue of Flora, the Goddess of Spring. The path is softrened by dense plantings of grey green lamb’s ears, helichrysum petiolare and lavender. The purple blues colors of campanula and thalictrum … Continue reading →

For this incredible Italianate home in Bel Air we created custom furniture and lighting and designed numerous Mediterranean gardens.

Bold drama surrounds the setting created by Heather Lenkin. Furniture and accessories Baker, Knapp and Tubbs. Plant material from Lenkin Design and Monrovia Growers.

Pottery and water feature provided by The Glass Garage, arrangement and accessories selected by Heather Lenkin. George Kuo copper repousse frog available from Baker, Knapp and Tubbs.