12-Callow Garden

This garden is intended to demonstrate how California native plants can be used in a formal design with a simplified plant palette. Anchored by a specimen tree (Chilopsis/catalpa), the front yard is dominated by a 1,200-square-foot expanse of “Blond Ambition” grama grass and organized with linear arrangements of buckwheat and sage. The simple plant palette has been enriched this year with re-plantings of Douglas iris. The back yard features a mature stand of Dr. Hurd manzanita set in a 500-square-foot field of sand dune sedge. A magnificent example of Davis gold toyon graces the large planter.