Our client Camille is an adventurer; from cold ocean swimming and rowing to major skiing and engineering. Our hope was to give him a garden with tools for relaxation and restoration. Hot tub, outdoor shower, moody night lights. To tune and repair the body.

An elegant layer of concrete retaining walls holds a plant palette of what we jokingly coined as “California French.” Unrelated to the fact that Camille is French or that these plants are not inherently French. Rather, they evoke a feeling of European garden class. Maybe it is in the way the Rhamnus california ‘Eve Case’ has been tightly pruned, the loosely patterned repetitions of grasses and creeping rosemary, the tincture of seasonal flowers, and the multi trunked Olea europaea.