All projects

Selected work.

Resilient landscapes across the Bay Area — hillside family gardens, a downtown pocket park and a community farm, with senior living and mixed-use communities on the boards. Architects and builders can see what I bring to a collaborative team here.

All projects

Stanford Residence — the mid-century wood house seen from the street behind a no-mow fescue meadow, deer grass, and a full-range bluestone entry walk

Stanford Residence
SoFA Pocket Park, San Jose — a bench planter with chartreuse A-frame trellises, red stock-tank planters, and floral murals

SoFA Pocket Park, San Jose

With Farmscape
Palo Alto Craftsman front garden — red Japanese maples and birches over a flagstone path through native planting

Palo Alto Craftsman Garden
San Leandro Residence — freshly built garden with white calla lilies and new redwood raised beds along a decomposed-granite path toward a pergola

San Leandro Residence
Los Altos Residence — the rusted-steel dinosaur standing among the planting above a small lawn, with a flagstone path and spring tulips

Los Altos Residence
Tracy Lakes Agrihood — community-farm raised beds of strawberries, seedlings, and marigolds beside a board-and-batten shed

Tracy Lakes Agrihood

With Farmscape
Mountain View Residence — the pergola over the paver dining terrace, with a flagstone path running through the no-mow meadow

Mountain View Residence
Woodside Woodland Garden — a dry-stacked stone wall curving with the drive beneath tall redwoods

Woodside Woodland Garden
San Francisco rooftop edible garden at dusk — raised planters of kale, broccoli, and herbs behind perforated bubble screens, city rooftops and a sunset sky beyond

San Francisco Rooftop Edible Garden

With Farmscape
Palo Alto Eichler — raised beds of rainbow chard, broccoli, basil, and tomatoes in a back garden

Palo Alto Eichler Garden

With Farmscape
Los Gatos edible garden — a gravel path between raised beds under lush pea-vine trellises and string lights

Los Gatos Edible Garden

With Farmscape
Lafayette edible garden — redwood raised beds full of tomatoes along a cobblestone path with a rosemary hedge and oak woodland in warm afternoon light

Lafayette Edible Garden

With Farmscape
San Mateo Residence — design rendering of a green lawn edged by flowering trees and layered native beds with garden seating

San Mateo Residence

Design rendering
Orinda Residence — the rebuilt pool reflecting a cloud-streaked sky, with the open-air pavilion at its far end and a pergola beside the house

Orinda Residence

At David Thorne Landscape Architect
Lafayette Residence — the outdoor living room at dusk, a lit stone fireplace under a timber pergola

Lafayette Residence

At David Thorne Landscape Architect
Burlingame Residence — a stacked-stone fire pit and lounge chairs on decomposed granite, ringed by raised vegetable beds under a red umbrella

Burlingame Residence

At David Thorne Landscape Architect
Sausalito hillside garden framing the San Francisco skyline across Richardson Bay

Sausalito Residence

At Arterra Landscape Architects
Carmel Contemporary Hacienda — ornamental grasses and lavender opening to the canyon view in morning fog

Carmel Contemporary Hacienda

At Arterra Landscape Architects
Piedmont Residence at dusk — the lit villa seen across the level lawn, with a moon above the trees

Piedmont Residence

At David Thorne Landscape Architect
Belmont

Hillside View Garden

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Orinda

Hillside Family Garden

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Hayward

Mixed-Use Residences

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Orinda

Fire-Wise Deck & Outdoor Kitchen

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Oakland

Senior Living Courtyard

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Richmond

Live/Work Condominiums

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West End, Atlanta

Edible Community Greenway

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Some of these projects were designed during my years at other firms — Arterra Landscape Architects, David Thorne Landscape Architect, and Farmscape, one of California's leading edible-landscape firms — and each project page credits the full team.