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CSI: Garden Edition
By Debra Prinzing
Marg Helgenberger, longtime star of CSI, gives her classic Los Angeles garden a second life as a glamorous Mediterranean-style retreat with plenty of space and style for backyard entertaining.
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A Star Is Reborn
By Debra Prinzing
When Marg Helgenberger, the longtime star of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, was shopping for a new home five ears ago, she found the perfect place in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood—but the gardens were overgrown and needed to be rethought. Architect Barbara Schnitzler, interior decorator Maggie Marra, and plant consultant Judi Bloom helped Helgenberger transformed the property into a stunning Mediterranean-style house and garden. 
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A Tropical Garden in Los Angeles, Slide Show
By Jeff Spurrier
"I want the landscape to have as much importance and value as the house," said Jordan Kaplan, the owner of this house and garden in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades. Check out the photographs of the house's landscape, designed by KAA Design. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Gray | Green | Contemporary | California | Garden Inspiration | landscape architecture | landscape design | Los Angeles | tropical plants | Tropicals | West Coast
A Tropical Garden in Los Angeles
By Jeff Spurrier
A Los Angeles couple takes a surprising approach to designing their new home. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Gray | Green | Red | California | Garden Inspiration | KAA Design | landscape architecture | landscape design | Los Angeles | tropical plants | Tropicals | West Coast
Botanic Notables: Albino Redwoods
By Anna Laurent
No one knows exactly how many albino redwoods there are in the world, but their snow-white needles are unmistakable. These "ghosts of the forest" lack chlorophyll, and receive nutrients from a parent redwood tree. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | White | albino | Anna Laurent | botanic notables | California | ghost trees | rare | redwood
My Garden: Winter in Petaluma, California
By The Editors
The story and photographs of one reader's winter garden in Petaluma, California.
Related Topics: Places | Brown | Gray | Green | Red | Yellow | California | Conifers | garden photos | my garden | Succulents | Winter
Botanic Notables: The Lone Cypress
By Anna Laurent
Monterey's famous Lone Cypress is one of the most photographed trees in the United States, and has become emblematic of the California Coast. Its image is also copyrighted, which brings up interesting questions about the legal images of nature.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Brown | Green | Anna Laurent | botanic notables | California | cypress | monterey | Trees
Roy Dowell and Lari Pittman's Cactus Garden in Los Angeles
By Jeff Spurrier
In the foothills of Los Angeles, artists Roy Dowell and Lari Pittman created a garden that's part installation piece and part intimate memoir. 
Related Topics: Places | Blue | Green | Orange | cactus | California | garden photos | Los Angeles | southern california | Succulents
What Makes a House a Home: Chic Little House
By Katrina Sullivan
Katrina Sullivan, of Chic Little House, writes about what made her decide to start blogging about her home renovations and how she adds personal touches to make her house a home. 
Related Topics: Family | Gray | Red | budget | California | interiors | What Makes a House a Home
Botanic Notables: Teddy-Bear Cholla
By Anna Laurent
The teddy-bear cholla (Opuntia bigelovii) cactus has evolved barbed arms that will detach and cling to just about anything, in the hopes of traveling to a new place to root and begin a new colony.  
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