The Late Show Gardens

Climate Change Garden (Dr. Hala F. Nassar & Robert Hewitt, Landscape Architects): The Climate Change Garden, expresses, through design, the impending changes we face concerning meaning and nature, resource scarcity, and greater global cultural awareness.

Oak Circle (Loretta Gargan, Landscape Designer): This theme draws from the oaks' profound relationship to the abundance and variety of California wildlife, providing both habitat and nourishment.

Renewal (Gary Ratway, Garden Designer and Horticulturist & Mike Lucas, Landscape Architect): Emphasizes regeneration through rustic and contorted gasoline tanks planted with grasses which bio-remediate contaminated soils

Garden Party (Hugh Livingston, Garden Soundscape Designer and Composer): Life-sized figures imitate the experience of a garden gala, with a flow of conversational and musical snippets.

Future Feast in the Garden of Flow/Accumulation (Suzanne Biaggi, Sculptor and Garden Designer & Patrick Picard, Landscape Designer, Contractor): Symbols of the cycles of nature (Flow) and man's interruption of those cycles (Accumulation) meet the symbol of hope (Future Feast table)

Over Growth (Beth Mullins, Landscape Designer and Biologist): The metaphor underlying Over Growth is the cycle of 'boom and bust' of humanity and the planet.

A Garden of Mouthings (Shirley Watts, Garden Designer): In response to the impending threats to our bee population, A Garden of Mouthings seeks to celebrate honeybees and native bees.

Meditative Remediation (Emmanuel Donval & Lisa Lee Benjamin, Landscape Designers): Meditative Remediation illustrates a simple system of using plants to decontaminate waste water which can then be used for irrigation.

Transcendence (Delmar McComb & Peter Hanson, Landscape Designers): By unifying the varying concepts of what a garden can be, Transcendence is transformed into a sculpted yet organic place of tranquility using local materials and climate appropriate plantings.

IN THE AIR (Conway Cheng Chang, Landscape Designer and Scientist): IN THE AIR is laid out for us to feel, associate, analyze and understand what is in the air and lead to exploration of possibility, expectation, viewpoint and our conscience with the greater environment.

After the Fall (Jack Chandler, Landscape Architect): In the reality of a world warmed and polluted by our own hands, After the Fall stands as a portent of gardens to come.

Grass Structures Simple grass sculptures highlight ways to recycle your grasses.

One of several lectures at The Late Show Gardens.

Thousands attend The Late Show Gardens.

Participating non-rofit organizations

Shopping at the numerous specially-elected nurseries and vendors participating in the show.

Slide show presentation during a lecture.

The Grow Melt Project (Goodscapes and PWP Landscape Contractor and Designers Peter Good, Sarah Kuehl, Liz Einwiller, Adam Greenspan, and David Fong): A moving metaphor for the greater changes afoot in our landscape.

Black Soul (Monica Viarengo, International Garden Designer): Black Soul is a path that invites reflection and encourages us to be the change we want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

The Hermit's Garden (Kate Frey, Landscape Designer & Ben Frey, Rustic Builder): The Hermit's Garden represents man striding from a pastoral, rustic past into an unreflective future where destruction of the environment occurs around him.

Below Above by Stephen Glassman and Mediterranean Meadow by John Greenlee (Stephen Glassman, International Artist & John Greenlee, Landscape Designer, Author, Lecturer, Nurseryman): Below Above site specific sculpture by Stephen Glassman in John Greenlee's Mediterranean Meadow. Greenlee's grasses and sedges thrive in Sonoma's climate and clean the soil below. Glassman's sculpture focuses on scale, velocity, and permanence.

Dick Turner welcomes guests to The Late Show Gardens Preview Party.

Marion Brenner, Hugh Livingston and Suzanne Biaggi talking with guests.

Beatrice Bowles' storytime for young and old kids alike.

Show organizer Robin Parer raising a glass at the post-event celebration.

Robin Parer surrounded by The Late Show Garden designers.

Robin Parer surrounded by The Late Show Garden designers, speakers, vendors & staff.