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Planting the New California Garden Part 1: Linda Middleton, APLD

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Perennials, grasses, and woody plants mingle with wild abandon in this Concord garden. Photo: Jude Parkinson-Morgan

This is the first in a 4-part series we’ve named Planting the New California Garden. Throughout 2017 we’ll be highlighting the work of APLD designers to illustrate practical water-use data beautifully brought to life in a finished landscape. Our Planting the New California Garden series is funded in part by a grant from the Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation.

Designer Linda Middleton (APLD) refreshed a dated landscape for a client in Concord, California. Janet’s front yard was once filled with juniper, wintercreeper, fortnight lilies, and a few sad flaxes. The back yard was a hodgepodge of iceberg roses, lavender, nandina, melaleucas, flaxes and sedums; large plants placed at the patio's edge hid the rest of the garden from view and there was little color in the tired landscape. Janet regularly volunteers at the world-renown Ruth Bancroft Garden, which inspired her to incorporate more succulents into her new landscape. The hardscape and an existing arbor in the original garden we...

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