Landscape designer Margie Grace talks about what it takes to create a beautiful, maintainable garden.
When it comes to creating beautiful, maintainable and environmentally-sensitive gardens, landscape designerAfter spearheading Grace Design and Associates for more than three decades, and curating 350-plus gardens, Grace conceived Sycamore Canyon, a verdant, 0.86-acre terraced garden landscape. With its whimsical, low-water, low-maintenance, fire-resistant design, it garnered her Designer of the Year in 2018 from the International Assn. of Professional Landscape Designers.
“One of my goals was to see how low I could go on the water and still make it lush. I would do one part of the garden at a time, run to the water meter and see if I could do any more,” Grace said. “The trick is not as much plant material but other natural things — like a beautiful log, the un-patterned floor of gravel and the melange of beach pebbles in a variety of tones and sizes — that support the local biome, are nice on the eyeballs and easy on the pocketbook and water.
Located in Montecito, where water allotment is strictly regulated, Sycamore Canyon is a study in sustainability and ingenuity, using only half the home’s designated water ration in the live-oak-laden, ivy-enveloped back yard.Grace created distinct spaces with stone steps and grading, including six seating areas, a sandstone-rimmed pond and a four-foot-wide fire pit made from a $350 propane tank head from Baker Tankhead Inc. .
The front yard, with its barrel cactus, ponytail palms and Australian cactus collection, pays homage to the iconic neighboring botanical garden, Lotusland. The backyard’s large, purple hoop sculptures echo her work at Greystone Mansion, the historic estate in Beverly Hills. “There are strings of mirror garlands hanging on them so light is just dancing all through the garden. You can’t see that and not giggle,” said Grace, whose latest book, “Secret Gardens of Santa Barbara,” is out this month.Growing up we lived in Altadena, and mom would let us five kids borrow the Volkswagen bus and drive through the neighborhood and look at houses with these gorgeous trees and amazing architectural history. I’d say, ‘I like this one, I like that garden, I don’t like that one.
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