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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.
Related Topics: Places | Green | Orange | Red | White | Contemporary | California | celebrities | Los Angeles | Mediterranean | outdoor entertaining | southern california | Succulents
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. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Green | White | California | celebrities | Los Angeles | Mediterranean | Places | southern california
Botanic Notables: The Official City Plant of Los Angeles
By Anna Laurent
The recently adopted official city plant of Los Angeles is the toyon, a red-berried shrub known as California holly (Heteromeles arbutifolia), the one that put the "holly" in Hollywood.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Red | Anna Laurent | berry | botanic notables | drought-tolerant | erosion control | History | Los Angeles | native | official plant | shrub | toyon
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
Art + Botany: Sally Jacobs Watercolor Exhibit
By Anna Laurent
Botanical illustrator Sally Jacobs finds her subjects at Los Angeles farmers markets. A show of her vegetable watercolor portraits just opened at a gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Purple | Red | Yellow | art + botany | exhibit | illustration | Los Angeles | sally jacobs | vegetables | watercolor
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: Tamara Blaich
By Tamara Blaich
A Hollywood story producer writes about how she has moved 14 times in the City of Angels, but trees and books have always made her house a home. 
Related Topics: Ideas | Brown | Green | Red | California | interiors | Los Angeles | What Makes a House a Home
Art + Botany: Fallen Fruit
By Anna Laurent
Maps to the stars! No, wait, maps to...fruit trees? The Los Angeles-based group Fallen Fruit created maps of the city's fruit trees, a reminder that Los Angeles was once organized by boulevards of orchards, not Hollywood and Sunset. It's little locavore, a little urban farmer, and it's a new way to understand a city.
Related Topics: Ideas | Green | Red | Yellow | Anna Laurent | art + botany | city | community | fruit | Los Angeles | southern california
Open Invitation: Beverly Hills Glamour, Photo Gallery
By Deb Schwartz
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A slide show of a Beverly Hills garden makeover, designed by Judy Kameon.
Related Topics: Entertaining | Blue | Green | Orange | Red | White | Modern | Beverly Hills | California | garden photos | Judy Kameon | Los Angeles | makeover | mid-century modern | southern california
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